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Main feature 14 Fact or Fiction Journalism on screen and in print
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his edition we’re going to the movies, and flicking through some books. Our cover feature by Sarah Lonsdale is about how journalists are depicted on screen and in print – heroes, villains,
powerful and oppressed. And it’s not just a vain self-interested exercise – the way journalists
are portrayed in popular culture is important for the way the profession is more widely regarded and the importance we place on journalism. The way journalism is regarded is especially important as it
continually struggles with cutbacks, closures and downward pressure on pay. On pay issues, Ruth Addicott asks whether it is time to name and shame employers who pay badly or not at all. It certainly isn’t an easy time to be a journalist, if it ever was.
But some journalists have even more to contend with. Michelle Parry writes our Viewpoint column about trying to juggle part- time work with a young family. It’s not so much the work-life balance that’s the problem, difficult though that can be, but the perception that editors may have of a part-time working mum. Like our cover feature, it’s another question of the impression that journalists make… This is what’s in the magazine. Sadly missing, though, are
letters and comments from you. To save our letters page please see page 27.
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News 03 BBC News Channel saved Union welcomes decision not to merge
04 Call for police to work with journalists NUJ urges ‘collaborative’ approach
05 Jobs to go at BBC Monitoring Cuts part of £4 million savings plan
06 Backing for NUJ on surveillance IFJ to establish working group
07 Wales to get media scrutiny body Assembly endorses call from NUJ
Features
10 Let’s go to Cork Media life in Ireland’s second city
12 Media to mayor Profile of Bristol’s Marvin Rees
20 Is it time to name and shame? What to do over low pay and no pay
Regulars
09 Viewpoint 17 NUJ and me 26 And finally
Arts with Attitude Pages 24-25
Raymond Snoddy Page 23
Steve Bell 27
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