NUJ Informed - December 2025
Strike ballots at STV and Reach; BBC Charter Renewal; Online Safety Act; the campaign to save journalism education; 2025 Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture, and more.
Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP gives 2025 Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture
This year’s annual lecture organised by the NUJ Black Members’ Council (BMC) focused on learning from trailblazing journalist Claudia Jones in the fight against the far-right.
Guest speaker announced for 2025 Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture
The NUJ Black Members’ Council has announced that Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP will give this year’s Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture.
NUJ Black Members’ Council holds successful General Meeting
Members met online and in-person, joined by guest speaker Carol Ferguson, TUC equality and strategy support officer.
Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture 2024
Registration is now open for the lecture hosted by the NUJ's Black Members Council on 5 December. Book a place to hear from Margaret Kimberley, executive editor and senior columnist of Black Agenda Report.
Nels Abbey: watch the video
Nel Abbey, author, journalist and broadcaster, gave the 2023 Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture
Claudia Jones lecture 2023: Nels Abbey
Nels Abbey discusses racism laundering, trying to fit in…and Suella Braveman
Claudia Jones Lecture 2023
Writer and broadcaster Nels Abbey is announced as this year's speaker at the event in honour of the pioneering radical journalist.
Gary Younge gives Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture
NUJ members gathered in London to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of the lecture.
Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture 2022
The NUJ and its Black Members’ Council is hosting a free special event celebrating the life and work of trailblazer Claudia Jones on 14 November.
Black History Month
Find out about the work of the union including our support for the TUC's Anti-racism taskforce.
Text of Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture 2021
Charlie Brinkhurst Cuff’s Claudia Jones’ Memorial Lecture 2021
The sharing of joy
Charlie Brinkhurst Cuff’s Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture 2021
Charlie Brinkhurst Cuff to give the Claudia Jones lecture: book now
Reserve your place to hear the award-winning journalist on Thursday 2 December
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff to give the Claudia Jones lecture
The NUJ’s BMC announces the award-winning journalist as the speaker on Thursday 2 December.
The Journalist December 2020 January 2021
It's not long now until we welcome the new year and we will all be hoping that it brings much better fortune than this year.
Francesca Sobande gives Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture 2020
This year's lecture is on Black Women’s Digital Media and Activist Experiences in Britain.
BMC Black History Month statement
Media reporting showed the youth, who defiantly marched on the streets of Britain in protest at the murder by US police of unarmed Black man George Floyd, were the heart and soul of the massive Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement this summer.