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What the Dickens? When the Author Became an Editor Contents MAGAZINE OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS WWW.NUJ.ORG.UK | DECEMBER-JANUARY 2021 What the Dickens? When the author became an editor Contents Main feature 12 The Nitpick Papers When Charles Dickens was an editor News t’s not long now until we welcome the new 03 Journalists face rise in violence year and we will all be hoping that it brings much better fortune than this year. Threats from paramilitaries and far-right It’s been a tumultuous period for 04 Black women need digital media everyone. Many people have lost their jobs Claudia Jones memorial lecture Iand lots of those in work have had to adjust to homeworking and virtual meetings. For some it’s 05 NUJ staff on four-day week enabled more work/life balance – count the number of puppies Change made to save union money in your park – but for others, especially those with young 06 Fairer deal for freelances children it has made work more stressful. Union launches major campaign Virtual meetings have opened up more possibilities for many and if you’re a disabled journalist then you might have more “access than usual. But you also might face struggles with some Features of the technology. Natasha Hirst, herself a disabled journalist, 10 Bridging the digital divide looks at these issues. The fight for online inclusion The pandemic has also increased the gap between the digital haves and have nots. Jenny Sims looks at ways of bridging the 12 Survival on a small stage digital divide and tackling the democratic deficit that has been Grants help hyperlocals keep going caused by the decline in well-resourced local journalism. 14 Access all areas? The coronavirus has this year wreaked havoc in many parts Virtual working’s impact on the disabled of the media industry as advertising has shrunk drastically. But some local publications have been thrown lifelines with grants from the Public Interest News Foundation. Ruth Addicott Regulars reports on the help for hyperlocals. And as it’s Christmas, our media anniversary feature provides 24 Obituaries our cover with a taste of seasonal Dickens. 26 And finally... Wishing everyone a happier and more prosperous New Year. Christine Buckley Editor @mschrisbuckley Editor NUJ Arts [email protected] 72 Acton Street Page Design London WC1X 9NB Surgerycreations.com [email protected] 20 [email protected] www.nuj.org.uk Advertising Tel: 020 7843 3700 Ray Melanie Richards Manchester office Tel: 07494975239 [email protected] Snoddy [email protected] Glasgow office Page 19 Print [email protected] Tech Warners Cover picture www.warners.co.uk Dublin office [email protected] Niday Picture Library / Page 21 Distribution Alamy Stock Photo GB Mail ISSN: 0022-5541 www.gb-mail.co.uk ” 02 | theJournalist news Journalists facing increased inbrief... JOURNALISTS GET TRAVEL EXEMPTION violence and intimidation Journalists have been exempted from the requirement to quarantine JOURNALISTS are suffering contacting the journalist. when returning from overseas. increased abuse and The NUJ survey found that: Other travellers have to self-isolate harassment and are facing • 98 per cent of for 14 days if the country they are physical and verbal attacks. respondents agreed those in arriving from is not on the NUJ members told a union public office should maintain NUJ members say approved travel corridors. Business safety survey that they have high levels of public discourse travellers and elite sports people been punched, threatened and shouldn’t dismiss they have been have also been exempted. with knives, forcibly detained, journalism as fake news nor punched, threatened kicked and spat at. They are restrict media access also being threatened with PHOTO STOCK / ALAMY GUY CORBISHLEY • 97 per cent agreed that with knives, forcibly DEMONSTRATION FOR death and rape online. disinformation and fake news “ JULIAN ASSANGE The results of the survey undermines trust in detained, kicked NUJ members and other supporters come as journalists in journalism and increases and spat at will demonstrate outside the Old Northern Ireland face hostility towards journalists Bailey on January 4 when the continued threats from Goddard (pictured above) • 96 per cent said that ruling is due on whether the loyalist groups and as other appeared at Wimbledon abuse and harassment risks Wikileaks founder Julian Assange UK reporters are targeted by Magistrates’ Court after being silencing journalists and should be extradited to the US. His far-right groups. Last month a prosecuted for threatening censoring debate lawyer Jen Robinson told an online journalist working for the behaviour towards The • 94 per cent agreed the meeting of 100 union activists that Belfast Telegraph and Sunday Independent’s home affairs current polarisation of debate Assange would probably take his Life was told by the police that correspondent Lizzie Dearden. and public discourse in the UK own life if he is extradited. he is at risk of attack from He was ordered to pay £780 has impacted adversely on loyalist paramilitaries. in fines and costs and was the safety of journalists Also in November, the given an indefinite restraining BOOST IN STAFF AT far-right activist James order preventing him from Police accused, Page 7 MYLONDON WEBSITE Reach is boosting staff on its My London website by half after No Stone Unturned pair win settlement reaching a monthly audience of almost five million. My London was NUJ members Trevor Birney and Barry their investigative and award-winning The pair were arrested in August launched last year with the merger McCaffrey have agreed a final film No Stone Unturned. The 2018 and their homes and offices were of the Croydon Advertiser and Get settlement after suffering arrest, home documentary exposes the story of the raided. In May 2019 Belfast appeal West London websites and their raids and property seizure by the Police 1994 Loughinisland murders. court judges quashed the warrants for extension into north, east and Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). The No figure has been disclosed but it their arrest. In July 2020, the PSNI chief south London. Reach will add 24 settlement comes after a two-year has been reported that the police have constable Simon Byrne apologised to new roles across My London and battle by the journalists arising from paid £875,000 in damages. the journalists. the sport website Football London. Local democracy Ian Bell award recognition win open for entries The NUJ is inviting writers aged 30 or under LOCAL democracy reporters The success comes as the who live, work or study in Scotland to enter working for Newsquest have BBC, which funds local its Ian Bell award which commemorates the won union recognition after a democracy reporters across radical journalist who died five years ago. long campaign. the country, said that it was Entrants may submit up to two pieces, Now that recognition has extending the scheme for a been granted by the Central further three years. It is also each between 1,500 and 2,000 words Arbitration Committee the increasing the number of which have not been published elsewhere. company and the union will reporters by 15 to 165. Email entries with your name, date of draw up a new recognition The union has cautiously birth and place of work/study to nickml@ agreement. welcomed the extension but nuj.org.uk by midnight January 10. The deal covers 40 is seeking further clarity on Entrants don’t have to be NUJ journalists and union various aspects of the scheme members. The winner will be organisers believe it will help including the terms of new announced in February. in seeking recognition at contracts and the impact on other publishers. those already employed. theJournalist | 03 news Black women need to create their own digital media, says academic SOCIAL media and digital communication give black women a British passport holder, was deported to the UK where she was voice, but they need to create their own platforms, says given asylum. Francesca Sobande, course director of the BA media, Sobande said today’s digital world, including Facebook, journalism and culture programme at Cardiff University. Twitter and blogs, had provided black women with new Giving the 2020 Claudia Jones memorial lecture online, opportunities to pursue activism and combat racism on their Today’s digital world Sobande paid tribute to the woman who gave her name to the own terms and escape marginalisation from the mainstream lecture, pointing out that Jones media, which continued to peddle had provided black was part of a long tradition of a stereotypical ‘hypersexualised’ women with new black press which stretched from images of them. the West Indian Gazette, which she Social media and digital platforms “opportunities to founded and edited in 1958, to new allowed black women to give a voice pursue activism and media company gal-dem (https:// to grassroots movements, she gal-dem.com/) added. And hashtags, such as combat racism on Jones was a Communist political #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter, activist, feminist and journalist, were being used as a way to globally their own terms who was active in the fight against mobilise campaigns against police racism and imperialism and brutality, the exploitation of women Francesca Sobande promoted Afro-Asian unity in the and other forms of oppression. Journalism course 1950s and 1960s. She died aged Digital spaces were not, however, director, Cardiff just 49 in 1964. always safe for women, who often University The lecture is organised every found themselves open to abuse and year by the NUJ’s black members’ council, as part of Black censorship. There were also continuing barriers to them getting History Month, in honour of pioneer Jones. jobs in the mainstream media, she said. Therefore black Jones was born in Trinidad in 1924 and later moved to New women needed to design, create and own their own media York where she encountered poverty and discrimination.
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