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2015 DACS PAYBACK DRIVE STILL OPEN This year’s DACS Payback campaign that distributes royalties to artists, illustrators or photographers who have had work published is running until 30 September. Applications should be made via dacs.org.uk. This year’s campaign follows a legal dispute with the Copyright Licensing Agency, that if not resolved would have prevented DACS from being able to distribute the majority of royalties to artists.


STORR BECOMES THE NEW COSMO EDITOR The new editor of Cosmopolitan is Farrah Storr, the former launch editor of Women’s Health. Louise Court, who has edited Cosmopolitan for eight years, moves to be director of editorial strategy and content at Cosmopolitan’s owner Hearst Publishing.


ROYAL REPORTER CLEARED ON APPEAL Former News of the World royal reporter Ryan Sabey who was found guilty of aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office has had his conviction quashed. He was accused of cultivating a contact Paul Brunt who was in the same regiment as Prince Harry. The Lord Chief Justice quashed the conviction on the grounds that the jury was misdirected by the trial judge.


COULSON’S DEPUTY CLEARED BY COURT Neil Wallis, Andy Coulson’s deputy at the News of the World, was found not guilty of being part of a plot to hack phones. He is the last of the journalists from the tabloid to face legal action over hacking.


NEWS UK STAFF VOTE FOR CHARITY FUNDS Staff at News UK, Harper Collins and Dow Jones across Britain and Ireland nominated causes to receive up to £50,000 from the News Corp Giving Fund. Alzheimer’s Society won the most votes and was given £50,00. The London Air Ambulance, Children’s Hospice Association Scotland, St Christopher’s Hospice and Whizz- Kids all received £10,000.


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ITV pay dispute settled after renewed offer


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Following a ballot, 97 per cent of NUJ ITV members voted to accept the deal


UJ members at ITV joined members of Bectu and Unite in accepting a renewed pay and conditions offer.


The improved offer came after strike action


was taken by members across ITV in May to coincide with the broadcaster’s annual general meeting. Following a ballot, 97 per cent of NUJ ITV members voted to accept the deal. The new offer means: • An increase in the redundancy cap from £36,000 to £45,000. • An additional two days leave per annum for all staff with over five years’ service in recognition of their commitment to the company. • A pay rise of 2.2 per cent for next year for those earning under £60,000 or in a union graded role.


• The maximum bonus opportunity for next year will be maintained at the increased level of £1,500. Sue Harris, NUJ national broadcasting


organiser, said: “We are pleased that these protracted negotiations are now at an end and that ITV has made considerable movement, particularly on issues such as the redundancy cap and additional leave for long service, all claims which had been stalled by


management for several consecutive years. In addition the 2.2 per cent pay rise being offered for 2016 is projected, in the current economic climate, to represent an above RPI pay rise. Achieving this and some catch up for past years has been one of the joint union’s key aims.” The May strike action was called after ITV


imposed a two per cent pay increase for this year. It was the first time that the broadcaster had faced nationwide industrial action for many years. Regional news coverage and some high-


profile programmes such as Coronation Street and Good Morning Britain were disrupted by the strike. The joint unions staged a protest outside ITV’s annual general meeting in central London and petitioned shareholders.


NURSING TIMES WINS AT MEDICAL AWARDS Sarah Boseley, health editor at The


enni Middleton, editor of Nursing Times, was named editor of the year by the Medical Journalists’


Association. Judges said she had ‘demonstrated an impressive record in transforming the fortunes of the publication and its brand, as well as providing lively, thought-provoking, and relevant content’.


Guardian, took the award for staff journalist (general audience). She was also the winner last year. Judge Olivia Timbs, former editor of The Pharmaceutical Journal, said Sarah’s entries ‘unusual and of a consistently high standard’. Other winners were: Broadcast


journalist, Liz Tucker of Verve Productions, for an account of a family’s struggle with motor neurone disease; Will Hazell of Health Service Journal, Young journalist; Matthew Hill of BBC Points West, Regional journalist, and Alex Matthews-King of Pulse, Story of the year, on the 2015 general election.


Body clock project takes NUJ prize A


BBC TV, radio and online project examining the body


clock won the NUJ Stephen White Award for the best communication and reporting of science in a non-science context at the Association of


Science Writers awards. The project, which ran


across BBC programmes and online output was devised by James Gallagher, health editor for the BBC’s news website, and Rachael Buchanan, a science


and health journalist. Stephen White, a


posthumous winner of the union’s gold badge, was head of communications at the British Psychological Society until his untimely death in 2010.


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