LGBT+ History Month
This year’s theme focuses on ‘Activism and Social Change’. The NUJ recognises this month as a time to celebrate past achievements and those to come.
Apply for the George Viner Memorial Fund
Black and minority ethnic student journalists should apply before 31 July 2025.
Fewer than one in five media workers believe newsroom diversity is a top priority in their workplace
The NUJ's Equality Council is concerned about new findings from a report by the Financial Times’s consulting division FT Strategies.
Irish Congress of Trade Unions – Support for ‘Ireland For All’ national demonstration
NUJ members can join a national demonstration backed by ICTU in Dublin on Saturday 2nd March, celebrating diversity and showing that discrimination and racism have no place in Ireland.
Claudia Jones lecture 2023: Nels Abbey
Nels Abbey discusses racism laundering, trying to fit in…and Suella Braveman
DM2023: broadcasting
Widescale cuts to the BBC are denying some of the most vulnerable people, locally and globally, access to trusted news.
DM2023: low starting salaries in publishing
Conference voted for a campaign to improve diversity and starting wages in the books industry.
Google and NUJ to launch training partnership
The union, in partnership with Google News Lab, is launching a new training programme to improve journalists’ digital skills and also develop the management skills of members in their mid-career.
Applications open for the George Viner Memorial Fund
Black and minority ethnic student journalists should apply before 22 July.
Unions can help broadcasters reverse their “woeful” record on diversity
More women are leaving broadcasting than joining and the representation of disabled people and diversity in senior positions is woeful, according to the UK’s industry watchdog Ofcom.
George Viner Memorial Fund, 2021
The deadline for applications for bursaries for black and minority ethnic journalism students has been extended to 5pm on Monday 16 August.
George Viner Memorial Fund: Nabil Mehdinejad
It was a George Viner bursary which put Nabil Mehdinejad on the road to making award-winning journalist videos.
Privatisation of Channel 4 must be stopped
The NUJ believes the reported aim of the government to privatise Channel 4 makes no sense and will result in a poorer offering for viewers in terms of news coverage, innovative programming and nurturing UK talent.
Glasgow branch donates £14,000 to NUJ charities
NUJ Extra, the union’s welfare charity, and the George Viner Memorial Fund (GVMF), which provides bursaries to journalism students from Black and ethnic minority backgrounds, each received £7,000.
NUJ Black Members’ Council statement
Lessons we can learn from the Meghan Markle race debate.
Journalists' unions unite with plan to save journalism from the tech giant bullies
The National Union of Journalists in the UK and Ireland has joined unions representing tens of thousands of media workers in Australia, Canada and the US in presenting a plan to save journalism from the greedy and anti-democratic tech platforms, which are sucking the lifeblood from the industry.
Is academic publishing about to change?
The open access debate has revealed the complicated and contradictory nature of the academic publishing landscape in which trade unions have a role to play.
BBC proves a Covid-19 winner, but future finances look bleak
The corporation’s annual report shows the broadcaster remains popular and trusted, but costs mean more cuts on the way.
New BBC DG sets out his vision
With 2,000 journalists' jobs at risk, the NUJ questions how the corporation can continue to make world-beating programmes.
The Journalist December 2019 January 2020
Welcome to the last edition of 2019. It’s that time of the year when we look back and make plans and changes for the new year.