Derry & North West NUJ

21/06/2024

Branch meets Thursday 27th at7pm on Zoom. We will be discussing ' Reporting the Far Right'. Link will be circulated to members. Make it if you can!

04/05/2024

Proud to be part of the city’s May Day march and rally for Palestine- solidarity, inspiration, jazz and rain

18/04/2024

The last post cropped the poster for some reason. Here it is in its full glory.

See you there!

09/04/2024

NIPSA PROTEST - PEACE NOW – STOP ARMING NETANYAHU

Thursday 11 April 12.30pm
Secretary of States Office
Erskine House
Chichester Street
Belfast

02/04/2024

The union has strongly condemned the harassment and intimidation of reporters and photographers covering the anniversary of the 1916 Rising on the streets of Derry.

A petrol bomb was thrown towards journalists gathered to report on a parade in the Creggan area and a media crew was chased from the area by a group wearing balaclavas.

Seamus Dooley, NUJ assistant general secretary, described the treatment of journalists covering the public gathering was “completely unacceptable and deeply disturbing”.

The union has strongly condemned the harassment and intimidation of reporters and photographers covering the anniversary of the 1916 Rising on the streets of Derry.

25/03/2024

Freelance Forum Spring 2024 is coming up on April 8th.
Panels include Pitching to the Press, with Jo Linehan, climate editor, Sunday Times; Charlie Taylor, technology and innovation editor, Business Post; and Margaret Ward, copywriter; and Newsletters: Back to the Future with Email, with Drew Sheil, marketing consultant; Sam Tranum, deputy editor, Dublin Inquirer; and Stephanie Costello, freelance journalist
Tim Dawson, deputy general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists, will deliver the opening address, Journalism in a Troubled Time.
As well providing panels on new techniques and up-to-date industry developments, the Freelance Forum is also a great opportunity to network with other freelancers, editors and professionals.
For more information or to book a place, visit the link, below.

Freelance Forum Spring 2024 Freelance Forum Spring 2024 is coming soon. Mark your diary now, and reserve your place below for Freelance Forum Spring 2024 on Monday 8 April. Reserve your place today The Spring 2024 Freelance Forum will consist of a one-day in person event at the Ireland Institute, 27...

14/02/2024

Branch AGM Wed 21st February 7.30pm. Zoom link to be circulated to members.

23/01/2024

Branch meeting by Zoom 6.30 Thursday. Link circulated.

18/01/2024

Brother Eamonn McCann prepares to address the crowd

18/01/2024

Flags and familiar faces with sister unions in their hundreds defy the frost at Derry’s Guildhall Square supporting the Day of Action. Solidarity from the Branch

15/01/2024

14/01/2024

DTUC images from yesterday's phenomenal show of solidarity.

13/01/2024

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Solidarity and best wishes to all at the Foyle chapel on Monday- together, people and union power did it

The one-hour breakfast programme replaces Radio Foyle's previous half-hour programme every weekday.

13/01/2024

Proud to carry our banner and stand among the thousands in Derry at today’s rallly in solidarity with Palestine

10/01/2024

Sessions coming up in Dublin, Galway and Belfast, as well as some other online sessions.

Free courses on leadership skills and news verification skills have been launched for 2024.

18/12/2023

Please send a card to Julian Assange if you can. Journalism is not a crime.

08/12/2023

Taylor who?

17/11/2023

17/11/2023

More pictures from the vigil for colleagues killed in Gaza, courtesy of brother Brendan McDaid

17/11/2023

More pictures from the vigil to commemorate our 43 colleagues killed in Gaza, thanks to brother Brendan McDaid

17/11/2023

17/11/2023

Proud to remember and name our 43 colleagues who have been killed in Gaza

17/11/2023

This is Pulitzer prize winner Anne Boyer’s letter of resignation from the New York Times as it poetry editor:
I have resigned as poetry editor of the New York Times Magazine.
The Israeli state’s U.S.-backed war against the people of Gaza is not a war for anyone. There is no safety in it or from it, not for Israel, not for the United States or Europe, and especially not for the many Jewish people slandered by those who claim falsely to fight in their names. Its only profit is the deadly profit of oil interests and weapon manufacturers. The world, the future, our hearts—everything grows smaller and harder from it. This is not only a war of missiles and land invasions. It is the ongoing devastation of the people of Palestine, people who have resisted throughout decades of occupation, forced dislocation, deprivation, surveillance, siege, imprisonment, and torture.
Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse. I won’t write about poetry amidst the ‘reasonable’ tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this unreasonable suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more sanitized hell-words. No more warmongering lies.
If this resignation leaves a hole in the news the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present.”
- Anne Boyer

14/11/2023

Vigil for our fellow-journalists killed in Gaza. Guildhall Sq, Derry, 5pm Friday November 17th. Journalism is not a death sentence.