Greece heading towards general strike 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 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 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 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 Strikes by workers in the state media saw many programmes cancelled.
Citizen journalism 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 Staff at the financial paper have set management a deadline of 4pm today before they begin action.
News comparisons - start of 2008 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...
It's Freedom, dummy! There's nothing definite in this, but in the PDF attached is a dummy of a proposed A4 Freedom newspaper which is going for discussion to the…
Congo: journalists attacked by police A meeting of 100 journalists in Mbuji-Mayi was broken up by police on May 31st
