Freelance May24: Solidarity with striking STV journalists 01/05/24

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Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin College) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the The Spectator libido section.

Happy May Day! Solidarity with all colleagues worldwide and those striking today at STV News

Tonight! Sold out!
I've haunted this doorway many times but never thought I'd be presenting my book upstairs.
7pm, Frontline in Paddington

Good to see a few generations of NUJ badges there. Happy #MayDay to all our members.

NUJ calls out sexist Spectator column. The chairs of NUJ's Ethics and Equality Councils have written to the editor of the The Spectator over a “sexist and degrading” column published by the magazine. Lea Ypi nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj-c…

RSF: Northern Ireland: Five years after her murder, still no justice for journalist Lyra McKee RIP NUJ NUJ Belfast & District Branch NUJ London Freelance branch 🗞️ IFJ EFJ European Centre for Press and Media Freedom Commissioner for Human Rights Human Rights Consortium NI Amnesty Int'l NI CAJ Pat Finucane Centre United Nations Human Rights Council NIC ICTU NIHRC

“The first casualty of war is the truth.”

Tonight we honoured the journalists who risked their lives getting the truth out to us. Thank you NUJ London Freelance branch 🗞️ for holding space.

Report launch (London) – Bitter Legacy: State Impunity in the Northern Ireland Conflict’ Report of the International Expert Panel
Event Date(s): May 1, 2024 18:30 at Garden Court Chambers, 57-60 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A SLJ NUJ London Freelance branch 🗞️
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FT: The bitter fight over the legacy of Northern Ireland’s Troubles
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Bad news for freelancers who submitted copy to Reader's Digest UK and have not yet been paid. Good luck with the 'insolvency practitioners': this nearly always means 'you're at the back of the queue'. :-( NUJ London Freelance branch 🗞️ NUJ Paris pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/mag…

At the NUJ vigil outside No 10 for journalists killed in Gaza while covering the conflict

The IDF are accused of deliberately targeting journalists, with the death rate “six times higher than the general population” according to the IFJ

Remembering journalists killed in the Israel-Gaza war - Updated today. londonfreelance.org/fl/2311gaza-de…
#StopKillingJournalistsInGaza #IWMD #JournalismIsNotACrime

NUJ members rally for Workers' Memorial Day. An update on branch activity so far remembering those who have died at work. Don't miss our Rally tonight: Honour the Gaza Dead. 6.30 pm, Whitehall opposite Downing Street. #IWMD #journalismisnotacrime nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj-m…

Just came across a speech I delivered earlier this year. Could be of interest to journalists and social media users. NUJ NUJ London Freelance branch 🗞️ IFJ Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) Impress iMediaEthics Ethical Journalism Network Ethics Frontline Club
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Media freedom ‘perilously close to breaking point’ in several EU countries. Civil liberties network warns of decline across the bloc as a result of harm or neglect by governments.

Read the report 👇 #pressfreedom theguardian.com/media/2024/apr…

Honoured to speaking in memory of those killed in Gaza this Monday at 6.30pm outside Downing Street.

Please come along.

“No conflict of any size in history has ever been this deadly to journalists.'

NUJ London Freelance branch 🗞️ is set to hold a vigil to honour over 100 reporters and other media workers killed by Israeli's deadly assault on Gaza.

Gathering outside Downing Street this evening.
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Three men set to go on trial today for 2019 murder of journalist Lyra McKee RIP NUJ NUJ Belfast & District Branch derrynorthwestnuj Human Rights Consortium NI NIHRC European Centre for Press and Media Freedom Freedom of the Press Commissioner for Human Rights NIC ICTU Irish Congress (ICTU) NUJ London Freelance branch 🗞️ Craigavon TC