Fight for all our pay
I have just made a contribution to the Reach strikers’ hardship fund. I would encourage everyone else who cares about pay in the media to do the same, whether or not you are a member of the NUJ. The NUJ’s …
Don’t outlaw free speech
Chris Mullin outside the Old Bailey © Tim Dawson
Union pressure is critical to keep journalists free from legislative binds… Read the 9,887 words with which Judge Mark Lucraft upheld Chris Mullin’s right to protect his sources, and one thing shines through. The case law cited will be very …
Pub-bomb probe could jail journalist
Chris Mullin outside the Old Bailey © Tim Dawson
On Friday (25 February 2022), Detective Constable Darren Sutton cut an uncomfortable figure in the witness box at the Old Bailey. Little wonder. At the behest of his employer, West Midlands Police (WMP), he was attempting to undermine a journalist’s imperative undertaking …
Truths revealed by the camera’s lies
Opinion column originally published in Amateur Photographer 5 October 2019 Photojournalism succeeds because of its apparent veracity. That ‘the camera doesn’t lie’ is at the heart of the reportage captured through the lens. Of course we know that images can …
Fruit Of The Zoom
I was sceptical that a gathering over video could replicate an actual trades union conference. How happy I was then, to find my fears misplaced. A version of what follows appeared in the June 2021 edition of NUJ Informed. The …
English customs reveal Dutch lorry driver’s hidden depths
Reporting for Dutch tv station Omroep Flevoland, I chronicled lorry driver Jelle Post’s, successful bid to explain away the £25 million worth of cocaine and ketamine that found amongst his cargo in July 2020. In Dutch law, the surname of …
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The Letraset Insurectionary
Review of David King Designer Activist Visual Historian, by Rick Poynor Like many1970s teenagers, a postal order dispatched to Finsbury Park, London initiated my engagement with politics. I received by return several sheets of lapel stickers, a poster and some …
Remembering Harry Evans
NUJ event poster
I danced a jig when Sir Harry Evans (who died in September 2020) responded to my speculative email. Anticipating little chance of acknowledgement, I nonetheless agonised over how best to address a Knight. Formalities, it turned out, were needless. “I …
Saved by suicide – Assange, self harm and free speech
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I observed Julian Assange’s extradition hearings in February and September 2020 on behalf of the International Federation of Journalists and the National Union of Journalists. I was also the only reporter whose daily coverage of the court case appeared in …
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Unfettered reporting threatened – what Assange extradition hearings reveal
Julian Assange’s extradition hearing took its last evidence at the Old Bailey, London yesterday. Closing submissions will be made in writing and Judge Baraitser’s ruling will be handed down on 4 January at The Old Bailey. Until 23 May 2019 …
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