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'Good Evening from a Hut Near Chelmsford' MAGAZINE OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS WWW.NUJ.ORG.UK | FEBRUARY-MARCH 2020 ‘Good evening from a hut near Chelmsford’ Modest beginnings for British broadcasting Contents Main feature 12 Radio Shack Britains first ‘wireless’ station News he media is changing so fast that 03 BBC plans major cuts few jobs stay the same and unfortunately journalists cannot Corporation to axe 450 jobs always rely on the work they know best 04 Watchdog probes magazine takeover continuing throughout their careers. Major deal under investigation TDiversifying is a way of protecting yourself against a changing landscape and we have two 05 Newsquest withdraws cuts threat features on that subject. Move follows Scottish strike vote Neil Merrick speaks to journalists who made positive starts 06 Broadcasting authority refuses to act after being made redundant or leaving local newspapers by Anger over bans on journalists setting up their own local news websites. And Ruth Addicott finds out what it takes to succeed in media training, a pursuit “which can be a lucrative and useful sideline. Features As news and journalism rapidly reshapes, it’s also interesting 14 Earning from learning to look back at much earlier innovations in the media. Jonathan Media training can be lucrative Sale traces the very early beginnings of radio which began in a small hut near Chelmsford. 16 Growth on the home turf Meanwhile there has been a key victory in the NUJ’s long- Local news sites thriving running campaign on equal pay at the BBC with the ruling by an employment tribunal that Samira Ahmed should receive Regulars pay parity with Jeremy Vine. Nicola Slawson looks at the background to the case which will have implications for many 09 Viewpoint other journalists. 22 And finally... I hope you find something of interest in this edition of The Journalist. Christine Buckley Editor @mschrisbuckley Arts with Attitude Pages 18 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 Letters Melanie Richards Manchester office Page 20-21 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] Classic Image / Distribution ”Alamy Stock Photo GB Mail ISSN: 0022-5541 www.gb-mail.co.uk The Journalist’s polyfilm wrapping is recyclable at carrier bag recycling points in supermarkets. 02 | theJournalist news BBC plans major cuts to news inbrief... BBC BOSS GOES TO NATIONAL GALLERY coverage and to axe 450 jobs Tony Hall, director general of the BBC, is to leave in the summer after PATRICK NAIRNE / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO THE NUJ has warned of an ‘existential threat’ seven years in the role. He will to the BBC after the corporation said it become chair of the National planned to cut 450 jobs in its news operation. Gallery. Sir David Clementi, BBC It will also cover fewer stories in a drive to save chairman, is searching for the next £80 million by 2022. Never have I felt the leader. The corporation faces a The award-winning Victoria Derbyshire mid-term review in 2022 and the (pictured) programme is being closed and BBC is quite under the renewal of its charter in 2027. Newsnight, Radio 5 Live and the World threat that it is now. Service’s English-language output face substantial cuts. Many believe how TUCKER TAKES REINS More journalists will be pooled in centralised “ AT SUNDAY TIMES news teams rather than working for specific decriminalises non-payment of the licence fee, we are funded is no The Sunday Times has appointed programmes and there will be more emphasis we know the impact will be further losses for longer appropriate Emma Tucker as its first female on online output. At Newsnight, 12 jobs will the BBC of around £200 million a year.” editor in more than a century. She go, its in-depth films will be halved and Fran Unsworth, BBC head of news, told staff: when consumers is deputy editor of the Times and spending on investigative journalism reduced. “Producing fewer stories means we have to be seem to prefer to pay replaces Martin Ivens, who is Michelle Stanistreet, NUJ general secretary, a smaller organisation.” She said the BBC was stepping down after seven years. said: “These damaging cuts are part of an under attack from changing media habits, for just what they use Ivens has joined the board of Times existential threat to the BBC, and a direct accusations of bias and threats to its funding. Newspapers and will contribute as consequence of the last disastrous, secret “Never in my career have I felt this a commentator and broadcaster. licence fee deal the BBC agreed with the organisation is quite under the threat that it is Fran Unsworth government. This is before the impact of currently. Many believe that how we are funded Head of News, BBC taking over responsibility for the over-75s is no longer appropriate when consumers seem GUARDIAN BANS OIL licences kicks in. to prefer to pay for just what they use.” AND GAS ADVERTS “Against this backdrop, the BBC’s very She said decriminalisation of non-payment Guardian Media Group has banned existence is being threatened, with public of the licence fee could trigger further cuts. all advertising from oil and gas service broadcasting under unprecedented companies across all its titles and threat. If the government goes ahead and Raymond Snoddy, page 19 platforms. It said the decision may make its short-term financial future ‘a tiny bit tougher’ but it hopes that the ban will attract some other Equal pay victory for Samira Ahmed brands to advertise. JESS HURD NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN the NUJ and the BBC The employment tribunal said the BBC failed PRE-TAX PROFITS over equal pay are continuing following the to provide convincing evidence that the pay gap FALL AT DC THOMSON landmark employment tribunal win by the was for reasons other than sex discrimination. Pre-tax profits at Scottish publisher broadcaster Samira Ahmed. Ahmed said: “No woman wants to have to DC Thomson fell by three-quarters Ahmed, who presents viewer feedback take action against their own employer. I love last year from £86.4 million to programme Newswatch, claimed she was working for the BBC. I’m glad it’s been resolved. £21.1 million. The group, which owed almost £700,000 in back pay because of “I’d like to thank my union the NUJ [and] all publishes the Press and Journal, the difference between her £440-an-episode the women and men who’ve supported me reported advertising revenues rate and the £3,000 an episode Jeremy Vine and the issue of equal pay.” were down by 5.6 per cent to received for presenting Points of View. The battle for pay parity, page 7 £37.1 million for the year ending 31 March 2019. No institute but tax breaks for news BUZZFEED FOUNDER GOES TO NY TIMES THE GOVERNMENT has ruled out as government interference in a The government agreed to a Ben Smith, the founding creating an Institute for Public free press. £1,500 discount on business rates editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed News, Interest News to help save the However, it said it was willing to for office space occupied by local has left the website eight years news industry. In its response to consider extending some tax newspapers in England, and it after helping to launch its US the recommendations from breaks, which could include said it would make a £2 million newsroom. He has joined the Cairncross review into the future removing the VAT charged on grant to the Nesta charity to New York Times as a media of high-quality journalism, it online news subscriptions to fall encourage innovation in the columnist and said he was “eager said such a body could be seen into line with printed newspapers. news industry. for a spell of writing and reporting and thinking”. theJournalist | 03 news Competition watchdog looks into major magazine takeover ONE OF the biggest takeovers be taken to “mitigate or in the British magazine prevent the substantial publishing industry is being lessening of competition”. investigated by the Alternatively, the watchdog Competition and Markets could clear the takeover in The Competition and Authority, the competition March if it decides there were watchdog. no serious competition Markets Authority In October, Bath-based concerns. was looking at publisher Future, whose Future said in October that many titles include Cycling it planned to complete the whether the deal News, Period Homes and deal in the spring. “ PCGamer, said it planned The takeover marks the ‘may be expected to to buy TI Media, which latest stage in Future’s result in a substantial publishes Ideal Home, TV expansion. Times and Homes & Gardens In 2018, it bought What lessening of among other titles, for it access to a much larger to begin a phase two Hi-Fi?, FourFourTwo, Practical competition’ £140 million. female readership. investigation. Caravan and Practical The deal would add The Competition and If it goes ahead with a Motorhome from Haymarket. lifestyle, women’s titles, Markets Authority (CMA) second phase, it will gather It also bought B2B new sports, home, launched its merger inquiry more evidence to decide publisher Newbay. That deal technology and in January, saying it was whether there is an gave Future 49 B2B brands in entertainment titles to looking at whether the deal “anti-competitive outcome” the television, video, Future’s portfolio. “may be expected to result in to the takeover.
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