National Union of Journalists
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Founded | 1907 |
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Headquarters | Headland House, 72 Acton Street, London, WC1X 8DP |
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Key people | Michelle Stanistreet, General Secretary Seamus Dooley, Assistant General Secretary and Irish Secretary Natasha Hirst, President Gerry Curran and Fran McNulty, Vice Presidents |
Affiliations | IFJ, TUC, STUC, ICTU, TUCG, NSSN, FEU |
Website | www |
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) is a trade union for journalists in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was founded in 1907[2] and has 24,528 members. It is a member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
Structure
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There is a range of national councils below the NEC, covering different sections and areas of activity. There is an industrial council for each of the NUJ's "industrial" sectors – Newspapers and Agencies, Freelance, Magazine and Book, Broadcasting, New Media and Press and PR.
There are also national Executive Councils, covering all sectors, for Ireland and Scotland. The Irish Executive Council, which has a higher degree of autonomy, covers Northern Ireland as well as the Republic.[3]
The union's structure is democratic and its supreme decision-making body is its Delegate Meeting, a gathering of elected delegates from all branches across the UK, Ireland and Europe.
Between meetings, decisions lie with the NUJ's National Executive Council, a committee of 27 people, elected annually by members. The NEC is chaired by a President, elected, along with a Vice-President and Treasurer, at the Annual Delegate Meeting.
The General Secretary (GS) is elected every five years by a national ballot of all members. The current GS is Michelle Stanistreet.
The General Secretary is responsible for the day-to-day running of the union and directing its staff. However, important decisions such as authorising industrial action must be taken by the NEC.
Leadership
[edit]General Secretaries
[edit]- 1907William Watts[4] :
- 1918Harry Richardson[4] :
- 1936Clement Bundock[5] :
- 1952Jim Bradley[5] :
- 1969Ken Morgan[5] :
- 1977Ken Ashton[5] :
- 1985Harry Conroy[5] :
- 1990Steve Turner[5] :
- 1992John Foster[5] :
- 2001Jeremy Dear :
- 2011Michelle Stanistreet :
Presidents
[edit]Presidents of the NUJ:[6]
- 1907: R. C. Spencer
- 1909: G. H. Lethem
- 1911: John Hunter Harley
- 1913: W. T. A. Beare
- 1914: F. E. Hamer
- 1916: E. Williams
- 1917: A. Martin
- 1918: F. J. Mansfield
- 1919: James Haslam
- 1920: J. E. Brown
- 1921: Thomas Jay
- 1922: T. A. Davies
- 1923: Walter Meakin
- 1924: T. K. Sledge
- 1925: Thomas Dickson
- 1926: A. J. Rhodes
- 1927: H. A. Raybould
- 1928: F. W. Bill
- 1929: H. D. Nichols
- 1930: W. G. Mitchell
- 1931: W. Betts
- 1932: J. G. Gregson
- 1933: James Hume Aitken
- 1934: E. J. T. Didymus
- 1935: R. S. Forsyth
- 1936: F. G. Humphrey
- 1937: F. P. Dickinson
- 1938: E. S. Bardsley
- 1939: James William Thomas Ley
- 1940: Ernest E. Hunter
- 1941: T. Foster
- 1942: D. M. Elliot
- 1943: A. Kenyon
- 1944: R. J. Finnemore
- 1945: A. J. Gibson
- 1946: F. Treavett
- 1947: J. E. Jay
- 1948: L. R. Aldous
- 1949: H. D. Moxley
- 1950: Jim Bradley
- 1951: J. Taylor
- 1952: Henry Bate
- 1953: P. W. Jarrett
- 1954: E. A. Lofts
- 1955: A. D. Ramsay
- 1956: G. Reid
- 1957: T. Bartholomew
- 1958: G. R. Mead
- 1959: R. G. Venmore-Rowland
- 1960: M. J. Williamson
- 1961: P. G. Reid
- 1962: K. L. Ley
- 1963: William Heald
- 1964: G. Byrne
- 1965: L. H. Kirwan
- 1966: D. C. Tuckett
- 1967: G. A. Hutt
- 1968: Kenneth Holmes
- 1969: Cyril Kilner
- 1970: C. Bland
- 1971: Douglas Rees
- 1972: Harold Pearson
- 1973: John Bailey
- 1974: Ivan Peebles
- 1975: Ken Ashton
- 1975: Rosaline Kelly
- 1977: John Devine
- 1978: Denis Macshane
- 1979: Jacob Ecclestone
- 1980: Francis Beckett
- 1981: Harry Conroy
- 1982: Jonathan Hammond
- 1983: Eddie Barrett
- 1984: George Findlay
- 1985: Ray McGuigan
- 1986: Bob Keogh
- 1987: Lionel Morrison
- 1988: Barbara Gunnell and S. McGuire
- 1989: Paul McGill
- 1990: David Sinclair
- 1991: Chris Frost
- 1992: Jim Boumelha and R. Trevor
- 1993: John Toner
- 1994: Anita Halpin
- 1995: Kyran Connolly
- 1996: Jeremy Dear
- 1998: Mark Turnbull
- 1999: Christy Loftus
- 2000: Dave Toomer
- 2001: Rory MacLeod
- 2002: John Barsby
- 2003: George Macintyre
- 2004: Jim Corrigal
- 2005: Tim Lezard
- 2006: Chris Morley
- 2007: Michelle Stanistreet
- 2008: James Doherty
- 2009: Peter Murray
- 2011: Donnacha DeLong
- 2012: Barry McCall
- 2014: Andy Smith and Adam Christie
- 2016: Tim Dawson
- 2018: Sian Jones
- 2021: Pierre Vicary
- 2023: Natasha Hirst
Publications
[edit]The NUJ publishes a magazine called The Journalist.[7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "National Union of Journalists Form AR21 for year ended 30 September 2022" (PDF). GOV.UK. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
- ^ Tim Holmes; Liz Nice (10 November 2011). Magazine Journalism. SAGE Publications. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-4462-9203-7. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
- ^ "NUJ - About Us".
- ^ a b ‘The editor should be absolutely independent, so long as he does not use his independence as a partisan ...’ The Journalist, November 2008
- ^ a b c d e f g Tim Gopsill and Greg Neale, Journalists: 100 Years of the NUJ
- ^ "List of former presidents". National Union of Journalists. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ^ Journalist. WorldCat. OCLC 5301989.
External links
[edit]- Trade unions in the United Kingdom
- International Federation of Journalists
- 1907 establishments in the United Kingdom
- Organisations based in the London Borough of Camden
- Organizations established in 1907
- United Kingdom journalism organisations
- Journalism in Ireland
- Journalists' trade unions
- Trade unions based in London
- Trade unions affiliated with the Trades Union Congress
- Trade unions affiliated with the Scottish Trades Union Congress