Leigh Purves, course leader and senior lecturer for Broadcast and Digital Journalism (BA) Hons at Leeds Trinity University, reflects on the challenges facing journalism educators and the wider industry.
Dozens of people gathered in Leeds to remember the journalists and media workers killed since the war in Gaza began and to call on the Israeli government to stop killing journalists.
A vigil is planned in Leeds to mourn the lives of all journalists and media workers killed during the war in Gaza.
Barry White says “We’re Still Here” was the message as tens of thousands defied the heat to march at the 139th Durham Miners’ Gala.
A report by Amnesty International published has warned that Northern Ireland is the most dangerous place in the UK to work as a journalist.
There is much to celebrate about journalism today, despite the doom and gloom surrounding the trade, according to journalism educator and branch member Tony Harcup
Journalists who went to work but never came home were among those remembered at this year’s Workers’ Memorial Day commemoration in Leeds, writes Tony Harcup.
Investigative journalists and NUJ members Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey have expressed deep disappointment following a ruling from the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.
The role of cartoonists in documenting the Miners’ Strike of 1984-85 was the subject of a book launch in Leeds.
NUJ stalwart Phil Morcom is to spend some of his spring cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise money for two charities.
