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MAGAZINE OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS WWW.NUJ.ORG.UK | JULY-AUGUST 2018 Copyright Cluedo Find whodunnit and get them to pay Contents Main feature 12 Close in and win The quest for copyright justice News opyright has been under sustained 03 STV cuts jobs and closes channel attack in the digital age, whether it is through flagrant breaches by people Pledge for no compulsory redundancies hoping they can use photos and 04 Call for more disabled people on TV content without paying or genuine NUJ backs campaign at TUC conference Cignorance by some who believe that if something is downloadable then it’s free. Photographers 05 Legal action to demand Leveson Two and the NUJ spend a lot of time and energy chasing copyright. Victims get court go-ahead This edition’s cover feature by Mick Sinclair looks at a range of 07 Al Jazeera staff win big pay rise practical, good-spirited ways of making sure you’re paid what Deal reached after Acas talks you’re owed. It can take a bit of detective work. Data in all its forms is another big theme of this edition. “Whether it’s working within the confines of the new general Features data protection regulations or finding the best way to 10 Business as usual? communicate securely with sources, data is an increasingly What new data rules mean for the media important part of our work. Ruth Addicott looks at the implications of the new data laws for journalists and Simon 13 Safe & secure Creasey considers the best forms of keeping communication How to communicate confidentially with sources private. 16 Rise of the elders On other pages Denis MacShane, an avowed European, looks Mentoring across the generations at how Brexit has created a new newspaper and Terry Wardle celebrates campaigning journalism. I’m pleased to say that the Your Say pages are especially full in Regulars this edition following a lot of positive reaction to The Journalist 09 Viewpoint on Twitter. Do please email and tweet comments to keep this important section in good health. 18 Starting out 26 And finally... Christine Buckley Editor @mschrisbuckley Arts with Attitude Pages 20-21 Editor NUJ [email protected] 72 Acton Street Design London WC1X 9NB Surgerycreations.com [email protected] [email protected] www.nuj.org.uk Advertising Tel: 020 7843 3700 Raymond Steve Bell Melanie Richards Manchester office Page 27 Tel: 07494975239 [email protected] Snoddy [email protected] Glasgow office Print [email protected] Page 19 Warners Cover picture www.warners.co.uk Dublin office [email protected] Jon Berkeley Distribution ” GB Mail www.gb-mail.co.uk 02 | theJournalist news STV cuts 59 jobs and inbrief... DIMBLEBY TO LEAVE QUESTION TIME closes second channel David Dimbleby is to leave BBC’s Question Time after 25 years as STV is cutting 59 jobs and has closed John Toner, NUJ Scottish organiser, said: presenter of the political its STV 2 channel. The broadcaster has said it “We are delighted with the ballot result. A programme. He will leave the show wants to save £1 million per year in a vote of 98.8 per cent in favour of industrial at the end of the year and said it three-year restructuring and growth action is a considerable show of solidarity, and was the right moment to go. Mr programme. demonstrates our members’ commitment to NUJ members voted Dimbleby, 79, said he wanted to In STV’s news operation 34 jobs are going resisting compulsory redundancies. for industrial action return to reporting, which was his and another 25 jobs are being lost with the “The consultation process will continue, and first love. closure of STV2 at the end of June. STV is also we look forward to working with STV with 98.8 per cent in selling local TV assets to management to shape favour on a turnout of That’s Media. The their proposals and “ LOW TAKE-UP OF PAID flagship STV News maintaining quality in 81.8 per cent FOR ONLINE NEWS Tonight which covers the new set-up.” British readers rank poorly in Scottish and STV’s chief executive paying for online news, according international news is Simon Pitts insisted that to the Reuters Institute Digital being cut, leading to the broadcaster is not News Report 2018. The study fears about news quality being prepared for a found that seven per cent of British and breadth of coverage. sell-off to the wider ITV people paid for online news, the News of the cuts led to network when he faced same level as Croatia. In the US, 16 a walkout by presenters and staff from the questioning from members of the Scottish per cent paid and in the Nordic Glasgow studios. At an outdoor meeting they Parliament over the cuts. countries it was an average of 22 complained both about the cuts and the • The BBC has said that its dedicated TV per cent.. manner in which they had been channel for Scotland will go live in February communicated. next year. NUJ members voted overwhelmingly for Originally it had been planned to start WALES’ OLDEST industrial action with 98.8 per cent in favour broadcasting this autumn. PAPER SHUTS OFFICE on a turnout of 81.8 per cent. However, BBC Scotland director Donalda MacKinnon The newsroom of the oldest managers pledged that there would be no said “coming on air early in the new year was newspaper in Wales is closing after compulsory redundancies so the chapel the best option for us, audiences and our a review of customer footfall at the decided not to take any action. suppliers”. weekly Carmarthen Journal, which was founded in 1810. Staff have been told they can work from home or on patch after the closure of the BBC new terms and conditions agreed town centre office. NUJ members at the pay offer and terms and 2018/19 and 2.5 per cent (or night working and on BBC have voted to accept conditions proposal, and the licence fee settlement weekend working – which OBAN TIMES GOES a pay deal and a new set of 41.3 per cent no, on a 63.9 percentage if higher) in we plan to ensure will FOR SMALLER SIZE terms and conditions, per cent turnout. 2019/20. deliver further A Scottish weekly regional following a two-year The three-year pay deal, Michelle Stanistreet, NUJ improvements to working newspaper has changed to a negotiation with the backdated from August 2017 general secretary, said: patterns and conditions for compact format after more than corporation. and running to the end of “There is still a lot of work to NUJ members, particularly 150 years as a broadsheet. The The result was a 58.7 per July 2020, is for 2 per cent in be done on terms and those who routinely work Oban Times has been redesigned cent yes-vote to accept the 2017/18; 2 per cent in conditions, particularly on unsocial hours.” for the smaller size following research among readers and advertisers. 60+ Council goes to TOMINEY TO JOIN pensioners’ parliament THE TELEGRAPH Camilla Tominey, the political editor The union’s 60+ Council sent a delegation to Blackpool for the of the Sunday Express, will move to National Pensioners Convention (NPC), the pensioners’ parliament. Jenny Sims, the Telegraph later this year. She Mary Brodbin, Ann Coltart, and 60+ Chair Jim Symons joined more than will be an associate editor (politics 500 delegates from across the UK. Strangely enough, the delegation was and royals) at the daily newspaper. met by glorious weather, instead of the usual wind and rain. Subjects Tominey has spent 15 years at the discussed included the NHS, pensions, loneliness, and funeral poverty. The Sunday Express where she is also proceedings ended with everyone singing the NPC anthem ‘Keep Right on to the paper’s royal editor and a the End of the Road’. columnist. theJournalist | 03 news inbrief... Call for shows with disabled JOHNSTON PRESS SEES SALES FALL Johnston Press, the publisher whose performers to tackle stereotypes titles include the i and the Yorkshire Post, saw group revenues fall nine NUJ delegates at the TUC disabled called on unions to work with organisations per cent for the first five months of workers’ conference called for more that supported members with learning the year. The company said the representation of disabled actors and disabilities. The motion noted that people ‘trading environment remains musicians on stage and screen to address with learning difficulties were one of the most extremely challenging’. It warned of stereotypes of people with disabilities and marginalised and discriminated-against uncertainty over paper costs and lead to them being offered more work. groups in society. The conference voted to ask the impact of the General Data An NUJ motion, proposed by Natasha Hirst, the TUC in consultation with its disabled Protection Regulation on digital said that, too often, people with disabilities workers’ committee to develop practical advertising. were shown in the media as ‘tragic, guidance for reps to use in campaigns to raise scroungers or superhuman’ and that this awareness of learning disability. allowed the government to The TUC published a report SHAH BECOMES put in place policies that showing the pay gap between BUSINESS EDITOR made the lives of disabled people with and without Oliver Shah, Sunday Times city people considerably worse. disabilities is at its widest. In editor, has been made business The motion was passed 2017, this reached 15 per cent, its editor. He has worked at the paper unanimously at the greatest since 2013 when the since 2010, starting as a business conference in Bournemouth.