NCTJ launches safety and resilience course for journalists
The free e-course by the National Council for the Training of Journalists provides guidance to support journalists if they face difficult situations as a direct result of their job.
DM2025: training
Delegates discussed training support and skills offered by the NUJ to members.
NUJ Leadership in the Newsroom training for journalists
This autumn's dates for the free courses for mid-career NUJ journalists, especially underrepresented groups in the industry, to develop their leadership skills.
New training opportunities for NUJ members
Free courses on leadership skills and news verification skills have been launched for 2024.
NUJ news verification workshops
Fake news may be as old as the Pharaohs, but with AI making it all too easy to create false stories journalists need to learn new tricks of the trade.
NUJ Hi Viz - Issue 1
Issue one of the Health and Safety committee's newsletter explores work habits and health risks following the pandemic, latest activity from the campaigns team, good employer practice and more.
Registration open for NUJ Freelance tax seminar
NUJ freelances and those thinking of going freelance can join a free online seminar on taxation being held on 7 February.
Freelance tax seminar on 13 October
There’s still time to register a free place for Thursday’s session focused on taxation for freelances.
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.
The Mary Maher Bursary
The bursary will support aspiring journalists in Ireland from under-represented backgrounds.
A new journalists’ safety tool from the NUJ
The NUJ, with support from the Google News Initiative, has launched an online interactive tool to help journalists’ deal with hostile environments and cyber threats.
NUJ to publish protocol with private security workers
The union is working with the International Professional Security Association (IPSA) to launch guidance and a campaign to increase understanding between journalists and private security officers.
Sad day for union-led skills training
Despite a desperate campaign to save the Union Learning Fund which each year supported around 200,000 workers with skills training and career development, Gavin Williamson, Education Secretary, has pulled the plug on the £12m funding.
Freelance Charter
10-point charter for freelances rights and benefits.
From Health Crisis to Good News: A recovery plan for the news industry in Northern Ireland
As Northern Ireland comes to grips with the damage wrought by the Covid-19 crisis, the National Union of Journalists, UK and Ireland, is calling for a strategic initiative to rescue the media so that it may continue the vital role it has played on a daily basis during this unprecedented period of social and economic uncertainty.
#SaveUnionLearning template letter (docx)
Template letter for members to lobby their MP to ask Gavid Williamson, Education Secretary, to reverse his decision to scrap the English Union Learning Fund, which, each year, supports around 200,000 workers with skills training and career development.
Campaign launched to save Union Learning
Join the campaign to get the government to reverse its decision to scrap the English Union Learning Fund, which, each year, supports around 200,000 workers with skills training and career development.
The Journalist August September 2020
It was clear from the start of the coronavirus crisis that journalism would take a bad hit.
NUJ Branch July 2020
Annabelle Collins, Health Service Journal senior correspondent, reveals what it was like to work at the sharp-end as a specialist during the pandemic and tutor Carole Holmes on how the union can be there to help colleagues avoid mental distress and solve their problems.
NUJ Branch June 2020
Michelle Stanistreet on her evidence session on the future of journalism to members of the Lords; Dominic Blake, FoC for BBC Radio Solent, on radio’s role during Covid-19; and a report from Newcastle branch.