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Countdown to media freedom conference with Alan Johnston
Alan Johnston, former BBC corrrespondent in Gaza, recently held hostage, will speak on the problems of reporting conflict at a major NUJ conference, 'New Threats to Media Freedom - how we fight back' on 26 January. Building on the success of the union's Journalism Matters campaign, the conference, sponsored by NUJ London Freelance Branch, is aimed at journalists, broadcasters, media campaigners, media students and academics. Sessions will cover the mounting political and commercial pressures on journalists, the crisis at the BBC, secrecy and censorship, and bias in war reporting.Alan Johnston will lead a line-up of speakers including Martin Bright, political editor of the New Statesman; BBC Newsnight correspondent Paul Mason, Peter Wilby, former editor of the Independent on Sunday, Heather Brooke, specialist on the Freedom of Information Act and Jo Glanville of Index on Censorship.
How media unions around the world are resisting controls and defending standards will be covered in presentations by NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear, Chris Frost of the NUJ Ethics Council, BECTU president Tony Lennon and leader of the International Federation of Journalists Aidan White.
The conference is being organised with the support of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF).
It will take place on Saturday 26 January 2008 from 9.30am-4.30pm at NUJ headquarters, 308 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1.
We regret that there are no more places available for this event.
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World Press Freedom Day
More reporters are currently imprisoned in Turkey than in any other country in the world. Only a matter of weeks ago lawyers failed to persuade a Turkish court to release a 76-year-old journalist from a Turkish internet news station.
World Press Freedom Day on Friday May 3, 2013 is being marked in Britain by a rally to highlight the dangers facing journalists in Turkey and in this podcast, Nicholas Jones speaks to Barry White, Organiser at the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, and Sam Bamford, the TUC's policy officer for Eastern Europe and Africa about the importance of a campaign to highlight international press freedom.
The World Press Freedom Day rally is being staged by the National Union of Journalists at the NUJ head office, Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1 on Thursday May 2, 6pm-8pm.
DATELINE: 27/4/13
UK launch of EU media campaign
DATELINE: 13/3/13
The UK launch of a 'European Citizens' Initiative' calling for EU rules against concentration of media power will take place on Thursday March 21 from 11:00am – 12:30pm in Committee Room 4A at the House of Lords, London. Guest speakers will include actor and activist Hugh Grant (pictured), media consultant Claire Enders, Professor Steven Barnett, Barry McCall (President of the NUJ) and Marc Gruber (Director of the European Federation of Journalists).
A European Citizens' Initiative is an official petition, like a Downing Street petition. If it succeeds in gathering a million signatures across the EU, the Commission is obliged to respond.
This petition calls for the EU to act to protect media pluralism and press freedom.
CPBF Annual General Meeting
DATELINE: 1/3/13
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