journalism

Greece heading towards general strike

Submitted by Ed on Mar 18 2008 19:26

Workers during last general strike in December

Greek workers are set to go on general strike tomorrow (Wednesday 19th March) in protest of the government's planned pension reforms.

Wapping print works to close

Submitted by Rob Ray on Mar 17 2008 09:00

The Wapping print works which was notoriously used to break the print workers' organisation is to close, with two-thirds of staff set to lose their jobs.

Investigative journalists face harassment in Mexico

Submitted by Rob Ray on Feb 21 2008 13:24

Juan Trujillo Limones (a La Jornada and Ojarasca contributor) and Raúl Romero Gallardo, reporters for the Narco News electronic bulletin, have been subjected to spying and unlawful entry into their Mexico City apartment.

Greece: general strike by public service workers

Submitted by jef costello on Feb 13 2008 22:43

Public service workers in Greece have gone on strike, for the second time in two months, to defend their pensions.

France: strikes in state television and radio

Submitted by jef costello on Feb 13 2008 22:15

Strikes by workers in the state media saw many programmes cancelled.

Citizen journalism

Submitted by Rob Ray on Feb 13 2008 14:07

CNN are close to launching a new website called iReport dedicated to ‘citizen journalism’ (a media term for non-professionals who report and write the news). The citizen journalist has been a topic of heavy debate across many sections of the media, particularly in the NUJ where it is considered a threat to the standards and reputation of the industry.

France: Strike vote at La Tribune

Submitted by jef costello on Jan 30 2008 13:05

Staff at the financial paper have set management a deadline of 4pm today before they begin action.

News comparisons - start of 2008

Submitted by Rob Ray on Jan 13 2008 14:38

A while back I did a story count exploring how much the mainstream media actually writes in comparison to anarchist press and online. So, having done a Freedom revamp with more stuff levered in, and as an exercise to see how online is doing in terms of story count, I thought I'd revisit the subject...