IFJ/NUJ/Guardian conference – Journalism In An Age Of Mass Surveillance The Guardian, London 16 October 2014 Above: Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger Cocktail shakers are newly popular among Guardian journalists, and manual typewriters are making a comeback. Both result from rising …
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Watching television pictures of the demonstration outside the BBC’s Scottish headquarters yesterday, I felt concerned for my friends and colleagues who work there. Estimates of the crowd size outside their place of work started at around 1,000 – some called …
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Shocking as was the sight of Al Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed locked in a cage while they were sentenced to long jail terms, broadcast pictures rendered the scene remote. Meeting with the three journalists’ colleagues, …
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This is a written up version of the speech that I gave to the Don’t Spy On Us day of action on 7 June 2014. The event sold out its 500-seat venue. At the end of my session I gave …
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Based on the citation I delivered, conferring on Mike Holderness NUJ membership of honour. Mike Holderness might look like a mild-mannered, middle-aged anarchist – but the man we have before us is a warrior. For the past quarter century, he …
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To understand why I gave this speech, a little background is necessary. Delegates to the National Union of Journalists Annual Delegate Meeting (ADM) in April 2007 voted to adopt a loosely-worded composite motion instructing the union’s national executive to call …
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