Next meeting: Are we all journalists now?

Brighton & Mid-Sussex NUJ Branch Meeting
Tuesday, September 24, 7pm
The Mesmerist (upstairs meeting room), Prince Albert Street, Brighton (next to Town Hall)*
Non-NUJ welcome

Aidan White

Are we all journalists now?
Speaker: Aidan White, director of the Ethical Journalism Network

The growth of digital technology and proliferation of ‘citizen journalism’ has raised important questions for journalists and the trade unions that represent them.

Guest speaker Aidan White will argue that we need to rethink who qualifies as a journalist and kick off a debate about how the NUJ can recruit more widely, defend the interests of people working in the media and play a role in setting and maintaining ethical standards.

Aidan White is a former general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists and is currently director of the Ethical Journalism Network. ((http://www.ethicaljournalismnetwork.org/)) Previously, he was an activist in the NUJ.

PROVISIONAL AGENDA

• Welcome to new members
• Speaker: Aidan White
• Branch officers’ reports inc correspondence
• Chapel reports
• Trades Council report
• September 29 TUC demonstration against austerity
• Other activities
• Future meetings, Chriismas party and preparations for 2014 Delegates Meeting
• AOB

*Apologies, but there is no wheelchair access to this room. If anyone has any ideas for licensed venues in central Brighton with full disabled access, please let us know about them!