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MPs have called for urgent investment, reform, and regulation to revive local journalism in the face of enormous financial pressures and the threat of big tech.

The NUJ has urged the UK government to retain requirements for alcohol licensing notices and changes to local governance to be printed in local newspapers.

NUJ backs NCTJ campaign urging the reversal of planned cuts to journalism course funding.

The union is deeply concerned about possible changes to the Digital Services Tax (DST) after Rachel Reeves, UK chancellor, confirmed she was considering tax breaks for US technology and social media giants such as Amazon, Google, Meta, and X.

A Future for News: the NUJ’s recovery plan for the news industry is the updated road map to reinvigorate the industry and sets out a bold set of measures and interventions to support and protect jobs and quality journalism.

NUJ motions on restoring trust in the media and a campaign to improve pay and conditions for freelances were passed unanimously by delegates.

The NUJ's updated News Recovery Plan

Michelle Stanistreet talks about the importance of trust in journalism at the IFJ agm in London on June 19, 2024

The NUJ general secretary gives a preview of the union’s News Recovery Plan to reconfigure a media rooted in the public good.

Ministers in Wales have been called on to make public interest news a public service and for a Welsh Media Institute to promote a well-funded, plural and diverse media.

The Culture, Media and Sport committee has published the UK government’s response to its report on the sustainability of local journalism.

Initiatives promoting public interest journalism and broadcasting were discussed and Siobhan Holliman moved a motion on the Future of Media Commission.

The quality and coverage of local news will continue to decline, damaging democracy, without new support from the government, a cross-party committee of MPs has reported.

“We are effectively going to read a report and the death notice for the Future of Media Commission at the same time,” said Irish Secretary Séamus Dooley

Recommendations to support and fund a diverse, pluralistic and sustainable press and public interest journalism has been published for consideration by the Scottish government.

Join the 5PM Talk-ins, a tribute to Lyra McKee, the comedy night with Mark Thomas and friends & branch and sector events.

The week’s early evening debates started by discussing the union’s roadmap to protect public interest journalism.

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and Ireland pays tribute to all media workers around the world who have died at work during the last year in commemorations marking International Workers' Memorial Day on Wednesday 28 April 2021.

Newspaper publisher Reach plans to close their offices and make most employees work from home.

MPs have called for urgent investment, reform, and regulation to revive local journalism in the face of enormous financial pressures and the threat of big tech.

The NUJ has urged the UK government to retain requirements for alcohol licensing notices and changes to local governance to be printed in local newspapers.

NUJ backs NCTJ campaign urging the reversal of planned cuts to journalism course funding.

The union is deeply concerned about possible changes to the Digital Services Tax (DST) after Rachel Reeves, UK chancellor, confirmed she was considering tax breaks for US technology and social media giants such as Amazon, Google, Meta, and X.

A Future for News: the NUJ’s recovery plan for the news industry is the updated road map to reinvigorate the industry and sets out a bold set of measures and interventions to support and protect jobs and quality journalism.

NUJ motions on restoring trust in the media and a campaign to improve pay and conditions for freelances were passed unanimously by delegates.

The NUJ's updated News Recovery Plan

Michelle Stanistreet talks about the importance of trust in journalism at the IFJ agm in London on June 19, 2024

The NUJ general secretary gives a preview of the union’s News Recovery Plan to reconfigure a media rooted in the public good.

Ministers in Wales have been called on to make public interest news a public service and for a Welsh Media Institute to promote a well-funded, plural and diverse media.

The Culture, Media and Sport committee has published the UK government’s response to its report on the sustainability of local journalism.

Initiatives promoting public interest journalism and broadcasting were discussed and Siobhan Holliman moved a motion on the Future of Media Commission.

The quality and coverage of local news will continue to decline, damaging democracy, without new support from the government, a cross-party committee of MPs has reported.

“We are effectively going to read a report and the death notice for the Future of Media Commission at the same time,” said Irish Secretary Séamus Dooley

Recommendations to support and fund a diverse, pluralistic and sustainable press and public interest journalism has been published for consideration by the Scottish government.

Join the 5PM Talk-ins, a tribute to Lyra McKee, the comedy night with Mark Thomas and friends & branch and sector events.

The week’s early evening debates started by discussing the union’s roadmap to protect public interest journalism.

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and Ireland pays tribute to all media workers around the world who have died at work during the last year in commemorations marking International Workers' Memorial Day on Wednesday 28 April 2021.

Newspaper publisher Reach plans to close their offices and make most employees work from home.