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BUZZFEED UK LOST £3 MILLION IN 2016 Buzzfeed is cutting 20 jobs in the UK as part of cuts across its operations. It is expected that up to 100 staff will be affected in the US. Buzzfeed has about 1,700 employees worldwide.


NEW FOOD MAGAZINE GOES ON THE MENU National Geographic has launched a monthly food magazine. Food, which has 164 pages, had an initial print run of 50,000. It is National Geographic’s second spin-off, following Traveller in 2010.


MOJO MAGAZINE HIRES UNCUT EDITOR John Mulvey, the editor of Uncut, has been appointed editor of Bauer Media’s monthly music magazine Mojo. He takes over from Phil Alexander, who went to Wasted Talent as global creative director of Kerrang! and Rock Music Media.


in brief... Abbott makes diversity demands


needed to be done to ensure diversity in the media and that black and Asian people were often misrepresented in media coverage. She was giving the NUJ’s Claudia Jones lecture in Westminster as part of Black History Month in October. Abbott is a former


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black workers’ conference, one on the need for diversity in the media, and another on the right


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iane Abbott, the shadow home secretary, said much more work


officer. She became parliament’s first black female MP in 1987. Claudia Jones was a journalist, activist and campaigner and a founder of the Notting Hill Carnival. Abbott said: “There may be


more black and brown faces on the screen these days, but those with power, the people who make all the decisions on which stories are chosen and how they are framed, are


white journalists from privileged backgrounds.” She said the wide use of unpaid internships made it almost impossible for working-class young people to break into the media. She made several


recommendations to make the media fairer and more representative. • Companies should recruit not only from Oxbridge but also from higher education


NUJ DRIVE AT THE SCOTTISH TUC


he NUJ took two motions to the Scottish TUC


to create and access public spaces for marginalised communities. Both were agreed and will be addressed by the STUC black workers’ committee.


The conference, themed “Educate, Agitate, Organise”, brought together delegates from a range of trade unions. The NUJ’s Scottish assistant organiser


Dominic Bascombe presented a workshop on how communities could use forms of media such as zines, podcasts and YouTube. He also explored monopolistic


colleges with a diverse range of journalism students. • Journalists needed to


organise in unions to fight for fair employment and use their networks and collective action to effect change. • People of colour should


complain to media organisations if unhappy about their portrayal. • People should use social


media to put forward views not in the mainstream media.


ownership in the media, the differences in reporting on issues affecting BME communities in the US and the UK and the intersection of alternative forms of media with traditional outlets.


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