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By: Do bloggers need a union? « Writing on the Web

Do bloggers need a union? « Writing on the Web — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 10:07:33 +0000

[...] the 22 and 23 October 2010, my local branch, the Bristol NUJ, asked: What’s the blogging story? taking me to grown-up settings of the Watershed and Pervasive Media Studio. (As a freelancer, I [...]

By: Iqbal Tamimi

Iqbal Tamimi — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:12:49 +0000

One thing that NUJ has to remember. WE the blogging bloggers who campaigned, online and offline with our MPs and every other way to save the jobs of our colleagues who are more fortunate than ourselves who have or had jobs and earned their living from writing. For that reason, we (the bloogy bloggers) feel it is unfair and unacceptable to negotiate anything less than a full membership of NUJ.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:34:09 +0000

Yes, indeed an important issue. There is a partial reply to it already from Donnacha DeLong, NUJ Vice-President, elsewhere on this website – see his final comment, bottom of the page, at http://www.bristolnuj.org.uk/2009/11/24/bristol-nuj-to-target-new-media/
Donnacha will be on the panel on Friday night, so I hope we’ll be able to discuss this further then.

By: Iqbal Tamimi

Iqbal Tamimi — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 05:54:54 +0000

It should be interesting to find out whether bloggers can join the NUJ or not.
NUJ offers full membership ONLY to those who earn money out of writing, there are hardly any bloggers who can earn any money from blogging, if bloggers are accepted as NUJ members that would mean accepting the full membership of the exiled journalists who could not secure jobs in UK for different reasons including those who suffer a language barrier, yet, they do blog perfectly in their own mother languages and did make a change in their societies through blogging.

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Tweets that mention What's the Blogging Story? | Bristol NUJ -- Topsy.com — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:14:47 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Donnacha DeLong, Bristol Stuff. Bristol Stuff said: RT @donnachadelong – Info about Bristol blogging debate – http://www.bristolnuj.org.uk/2010/10/06/whats-the-blogging-story/ #journalis… [...]