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Main feature 16 Towering ignorance Social housing gets a bad press


T


he conference season is over for another year and many things look very different from the way they did last year. Jeremy Corbyn, an NUJ member,


has defied his many critics with a strong achievement in the election and an even


stronger reception among the large numbers of people who flock to see him at rallies around the country. His success has raised concerns about how so many in the media wrote him off. And amid the recriminations there has been the very disturbing event of the BBC’s political editor Laura Kuenssberg’s need to use a bodyguard. The Grenfell tower tragedy has also led to questions about


how we view social housing tenants, an issue that was barely on the agenda before the fire. Our cover feature looks at how social housing is depicted in the media. We have coverage of the TUC congress and our A day in the Life of is written by Alan Jones, the Press Association’s veteran industrial correspondent and focuses on his working life at conferences. And Barrie Clement, former Industrial Editor of The Independent, takes our NUJ and Me Q&A. I hope you find something of interest in this edition of The Journalist.


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Cover picture Steve Lewis


News 03 Trinity Mirror cuts jobs And bids for the Express


04 FT strike threat over equal pay Gap of 13 per cent found


05 Oldham daily shuts after 160 years But new titles come into town


06 TUC news Coverage of 2017 Congress


Features


10 A day in the life of... an industrial correspondent


12 Ship shape and Bristol fashion Local news thriving in the city


14 Hold the front page Scoops and their writers


Regulars


09 Viewpoint 18 Starting out 19 NUJ & Me 26 And finally


Arts with Attitude Pages 20-21


Raymond Snoddy Page 23


Steve Bell Page 27


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