Almost one in three journalists complain of bullying in the workplace. A survey of 1,436 members of the journalists' union NUJ found newspaper journalists are the most likely to suffer bullying.

The National Union of Journalists have released a short film highlighting some of the problems faced by journalists covering public demonstrations. The nine-minute video includes examples of the police obstructing journalists undertaking perfectly lawful activities, and details how the police exceed their powers in attempting to restrict the ability of journalists to do their work. Not surprisingl...

NUJ York has taken further industrial action, after Newsquest sought to impose compulsory redundancies at The Press. The chapel held a mandatory meeting on Friday, after two long-serving journalists were told they were losing their jobs. Journalists walked out at noon and did not return to work that day.read more

Journalists at The Press and Gazette and Herald in York walked out of work as their dispute with management over job losses continued. read more

Further to my post on Friday pointing to Peter Tatchell’s article on the repression and imprisonment of journalists in Iran, Peter has asked me to flag up that it might help if people wrote to various authorities and appealed on behalf of the jailed journalists. He says: You can help save Iran’s jailed journalists. Email your

The usual complaint is from mainstream / traditional journalists that bloggers don’t meet standards of reputable journalists. However, there are three respects in which I think that bloggers repeatedly show higher and more ethical standards than mainstream journalists. First, honesty about where a story has come from. Too much of the traditional media still uses twee

Are academics better bloggers than journalists? (I mean: are they better bloggers than journalists are, not are they better bloggers than they are journalists?) Search me. My guess would be that some academics are better at blogging than some journalists...

The fiasco over Shadow Culture Secretary Ivan Lewis’s call for journalists to be registered has rather obscured what should be a good point of debate: the degree to which journalists or editors should be held personally responsible for what they do. As I wrote earlier in the year about media regulation: There needs to be

The Treasury have just banned transcripts of the all-important briefing they give to journalists after the budget. Coffee House broke the mould after the April budget by producing the first-ever transcript – releasing to the public the spin which journalists are given in the precious few hours they have to write up the Budget. This shows how journalists were wrongly told that there were no s...

See Reporters without borders In 2008 : 60 journalists were killed 1 media assistant was killed 673 journalists were arrested 929 were physically attacked or threatened 353 media outlets were censored 29 journalists were kidnapped Internet : 1 blogger was killed 59 bloggers were...