NUJ Press & PR

Branch officers

Press and PR branch c/o NUJ HQ 308 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1.
email nujppr@googlemail.com


Branch chair: Monica Foot 0207 503 4123 and Carmel McHenry 0207 226 5501 (job share)


Branch vice-chairs: Mick Holder 0208 223 0712 and Mick Gosling 0208 806 2683


Branch secretary: Sian Jones 07793 314249


Asst branch secretary: Debbie Smith 07769 705361


Branch organiser: Debbie Smith 07769 705361


Branch treasurer: Charles Harkness 07745 127814


Branch events organiser: Kay Shelley 07748 662213


Branch news editor: Mick Holder 0208 223 0712


Branch equality officer: Carmel McHenry


Sector NEC member: Anita Halpin



Email

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Branch meetings 2010

All on Wednesdays starting at 6.30pm:  4 August (branch social/dinner) 1 September (meeting with Nick Jones).
Venue: NUJ HQ, 308-312 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8DP. The building is fully accessible. The nearest tube/station is King's Cross/St Pancras International.

Prs Must Refuse Bnp Work

by Rich Simcox


The NUJ will support any council PRs who refuse to be used by the BNP to spread their lies and discriminatory policies.

Former Tower Hamlets council PR officer, Eileen Short, who helped organise a campaign to expose and isolate the BNP’s first elected councillor Derek Beackon says we must not be used to spread BNP propaganda.

Speaking at the union’s 'Reporting the BNP' summit on Thursday 18 May, press and PR branch member Eileen described how as part of the campaign she compiled a list of 10 questions every journalist should ask themselves before reporting on the BNP or other racist and fascist parties.

“Something as simple as an NUJ style guide on noticeboards would make a huge difference,” she said.

Eileen was one of more than 50 NUJ activists at the event organised to discuss how we can support members seeking to uphold the conscience clause and the NUJ guidelines on race reporting in the face of the election of two BNP Euro MPs, and a string of local councillors in England.

The meeting agreed a five-point action plan:

- The creation of a ‘one stop shop’ information website set up by the NUJ in conjunction with sister unions
- A strong position statement of NUJ policy on racism in the media and the BNP
- Building for the Manchester day school on reporting the BNP on 27 July
- Publicising the union’s ethics hotline for advice on race reporting
- Updating an distributing the NUJ guidelines on race reporting.

Building up the confidence of members in the workplace, through information, advice and solidarity networks between chapels was the focus of much of the debate.

The meeting also heard from Weyman Bennett, national secretary of Unite Against Fascism, former Labour MEP Glyn Ford and black members’ council co-chair Rotimi Sankore.

Three people joined the NUJ as a result of the meeting
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Last modified: Saturday, June 20, 2009