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Member spotlight: Greg Wright

Greg Wright, Deputy Business Editor at The Yorkshire Post

After starting his career in hospital radio, Greg is now Deputy Business Editor at The Yorkshire Post where his work covering major scandals has earned him a host of awards. But he’s also the journalist who helped bring Yorkshire’s Calendar Girls to a worldwide audience…

Learning to report the courts when you can’t see them

Harry Ward, pictured outside BBC Broadcasting House in London. Image by Kit Taylor

For blind trainee journalist Harry Ward (pictured), learning to cover the courts has meant mastering much more than media law. It has meant learning about buildings, routines and people, while the institutions have had to learn about him too.

The signalman’s grandson saved by journalism

NUJ member Andrew Bibby from Hebden Bridge, left, is in animated conversation with Michael Meadowcroft, right, at the celebration of the centenary of an NUJ branch in Leeds in October 2006.

Friend Adam Christie writes about former MP and long-time NUJ member Michael Meadowcroft, who died on June 1st, aged 84, after a short illness. Finding work when you’ve lost your […]

Member spotlight: Liana Jacob

Liana Jacob graduates at the University of Sheffield

Each month we’re spotlighting a member of our branch. This month read all about Liana Jacob, a Yorkshire Post journalist who says highlighting the stories of the region’s people makes her appreciate where she lives every day. 

AGM

A group of journalists posing awkwardly for a photo in the top room of the Midnight Bell in Leeds.

Join us for the branch AGM at The Adelphi in Leeds, with guest speaker Josh Halliday, the Guardian’s northern editor. We’ll also elect your committee and other branch roles for […]