Comments for Bristol NUJ

Comment on Job cuts and roundabouts from Northcliffe by Kim

Kim — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:18:35 +0000

If five Western Daily Press staff ‘choose’ not to uproot their family, leave their home and life and move almost three hours away to Devon, which isn’t even in the Western Daily patch. Not much of a ‘choice’ really is it? Not like the former editor’s choice of retiring on a nice pension to spend time with your wife in her deli…

Comment on Job cuts and roundabouts from Northcliffe by GEORGE HALLADAY

GEORGE HALLADAY — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:03:47 +0000

Having worked for the WDP on and off for over 30 years (“retiring” two years ago, a month before my 75th birthday, I felt like going into deep mourning when I heard the news. A lot of good journalists have, and still do,work for a newspaper that I was proud to work for. I feel so sorry for those who are finding that their services are no longer required, as well the plight for those who are being invited to move to Plymouth 120 miles away. My thoughts are with you all. What is the Temple Way worth now? Should make a nice little earner for the Daily Mail Group shareholders. All the best former colleagues, George H

Comment on JOB VACANCY by Bette Obrian

Bette Obrian — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:54:38 +0000

I much enjoyed this! I would have to say this is an pretty informative post that needs mentioning elsewhere. This is for 2 types of people:current writers who are considering a new job,and people trying to pick to become a writer.

Comment on Investigating how gender bias continues in the media by Chris Hawkins

Chris Hawkins — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:34:00 +0000

One of the areas ignored by the media in respect of gender bias is in the family courts where in both public and private cases the rights of children to see and live with their fathers is frequently ignored.

What about help with the Child and Parent Alliance campaign to redress the balance and reform family law.

Comment on Investigating how gender bias continues in the media by Ian

Ian — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:06:15 +0000

Good to see the Bristol Feminist Network so active recently. But whilst we’re on the subject of gender issues, how about the Bristol NUJ look at Secretary Tony Gosling’s sinister links to anti-feminist anti-gay and anti-worker websites such as PrisonPlanet, hmm?

Comment on New ideas for a responsible press by bristolnuj

bristolnuj — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:21:48 +0000

We were on the Media Guardian website on Monday folks. Many of Nick Davies’ comments are reported from last Thursday’s lecture, while the PCC responds that Davies has misunderstood the figures, and that the PCC is mostly resolving complaints to the complainants’ satisfaction.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/30/nick-davies-pcc-structurally-corrupt

Comment on Bristol NUJ to target new media by Donnacha DeLong

Donnacha DeLong — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:10:21 +0000

We recently agreed to allow non-journalistic members of Indymedia collectives to join the union as associate members, so bloggers who earn money in other ways can also join in the same way. Just fill out the form and write associate member across the top (maybe include a cover note explaining).

Full membership is more difficult due to the 50% rule (to become a full member you need to earn more than 50% of your income from journalism). Those bloggers who qualify are, of course, welcome to join. We need to have a look at this rule, though, so those who don’t meet the requirement are encouraged to join our New Media mailing list – http://mailman.journonet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/newmedia and voice their opinion and help us figure out how best to resolve the issue.

@Christina – sounds like a great idea and I’d be happy to come along.

Comment on New ideas for a responsible press by Lee Salter

Lee Salter — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:55:03 +0000

Well done and thank you to all of Bristol NUJ and to Nick for such a brilliant evening. If only the local organisations for which members work could such analysis, the media world would be so much better! Here’s to Bristol NUJ!!

Comment on Bristol NUJ to target new media by Anton Vowl

Anton Vowl — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:18:04 +0000

I can’t help thinking the NUJ should be welcoming the subs from bloggers who want to pay and join the union. I don’t think it dilutes the profession of journalism nor the credibility of the union. The NUJ accepts membership from students, so why not others who aren’t full-time (or even part-time) professionals?

I agree bloggers aren’t a straight swap for well-resourced journalism but this isn’t an either-or choice that we’re making. Bloggers can add to the debate with articles that are intelligent, researched and insightful – often more so than what you’ll see turning up in the mainstream media. Is that journalism? Yes it is. Does it matter that you don’t get paid for it? I don’t think so.

There must come a time when you look at the thousands of readers blogs are getting and decide that it can’t be dismissed or viewed as less worthy, simply because these people aren’t being paid a salary by giant corporations. Indeed, I would argue that’s a very good reason for taking them more seriously.

Comment on Bristol NUJ to target new media by Christina Zaba

Christina Zaba — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:10:39 +0000

Yes, and then there are the aggregating blogs which are influential media organisations as well – eg http://www.huffingtonpost.com springs to mind.

I wonder if we should get together with the blogging community in Bristol and have a discussion about this at some point next year? Bristol having been the city where the Web was co-developed in the first place back in circa 1990 (little-known factoid).

Donnacha warmly invited – we could ask the branch to host and it could be exciting. Fur and feathers might fly but that’s no bad thing and something good could come out of it.

I expect there are some people from the Univ of West of England – students as well as teachers – who might also be interested.

Any thoughts?

nb animated discussion proceeding at Bristol Blogger!