The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Jeremy Dear: Journalist Kate Peyton took an assignment in Somalia out of fear for her job and was killed. The culprit? A short-contract culture
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Jeremy Dear: The BNP wants to protect the identity of its members – but not of anti-fascist journalists. We must not be intimidated
Thoughts of Nigel (Free subscription) | yesterday
After another day of decimation in the regional media with Scottish journalists having to reapply for their jobs on mass,I have to agree with the sentiments of Jeremy Dear general secretary of the National Union of Journalists. Writing on the Guardian's Organ grinder blog he says that If regional newspapers are to survive and prosper, they must be locally owned, involved in their communities...
E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... campaigns. The union is also working to gain the support of editors. NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear justified the fight, calling it far from obstreperous. He criticized the shareholders and publishers for "recklessness," saying "the very people who plunged the industry into this crisis by demanding such excessive profits believe the solution is to axe journalists and freeze pay."...
Harpymarx (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
I attended the LRC AGM yesterday. The keynote speech was delivered by Tony Benn. John McDonnell MP chairing. Speakers included Ogmundur Jonassen MP (VG, Iceland), Jeremy Dear (NUJ) and Katy Clark MP who all discussed the current economic crisis and set the political scene for the first resolutions. I spoke in the discussion in favour [...]
Harpymarx (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
This is where I will be tomorrow…….. LRC Conference 2008: The Future of the Left 15th November 10am-5pm at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL (nearest tube: Holborn) Speakers include: Tony Benn, Brian Caton (POA), Katy Clark MP, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Jeremy Dear (NUJ), John McDonnell MP, Elaine Smith MSP, Matt Wrack (FBU), plus international guest speakers [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
... social change and ask whether it has a real future as a world religion. Executive producer Jeremy Dear said: "Whether you're a believer or not, the fact is that modern, secular Britain remains bound by Christianity's formative influence on our culture and society."
transform! ELPN blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... SAT Nov 15: Labour Representation Committee - Conference 2008: The Future of the Left (Tony Benn, Jeremy Dear, John McDonnell MP, Conway Hall, WC1, £15, 10.00 start) Media Workers Against The War - Conference 2008 (LSE, WC2, £15, 14.00 start) Socialist History Society - ‘The German, Austrian and Hungarian revolutions, 1918-1919′ (Marx House, Clerkenwell, EC1, £3, 11.00 start)
Amateur Photographer (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Talks aimed at easing relations between press photographers, journalists and the police have today been hailed as 'constructive' by the Home Office. Last week, National Union of Journalists (NUJ) general secretary Jeremy Dear told Home Office minister Vernon Coaker that police have used their in public places 'inappropriately'. The concern was one of several regarding 'media freedom'...
paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
The BBC's £68 million plans for 65 regional video news websites have annoyed regional newspaper publishers across the land from Trinity Mirror CEO Sly Bailey downwards. But today the project won some unlikely praise from National Union of Journalists general secretary Jeremy Dear , who said he was "slightly bemused" by publishers' opposition to the scheme … Dear, speaking alongside...
