Health journalism conference in Coventry

From Alan Taman (NUJ PRCC & Birmingham Vice-Chair):

Second International Conference on Health Journalism

14-16 May, Coventry

I'm co-organising a major conference on health journalism in May, as well as helping to run the NUJ's campaign on health journalism reporting and PR (details: www.europeanhealthjournalism.com ).

One of my chief concerns is that any journalist who could be called on to cover health hears about these, and can attend and contribute if possible. This of course includes many who do not have specialist training in health; if anything, I think it's more important that they hear about what we are trying to achieve, and we hear what they have to say.

Could I therefore please ask you to pass on the details about the conference to your members, especially those with an interest in health and the health services?

The aim of the conference is to look at the issues facing the reporting of health and health PR internationally as well as in the UK, and begin to address ways of ensuring all reporters and PRs who have to cover health have enough resources and training (www.europeanhealthjournalism.com ; #forhealthj on Twitter). Please contact myself for further details on aptaman@aol.com.

Thank you.

Russell Brand, Girl Guides and The Sun

Branch officer and committee member Rachael Glazier has an article in the latest issue of The Journalist on the campaign to ban Page 3 of The Sun. It's on page 19:

http://issuu.com/nujupload/docs/journalist_marchapril2014

Photos from last night's meeting

Rob Evans - Photo by Melita Dennett

Natasha Steel and Rob Evans - Photo by Melita Dennett

Pre-meeting for 11 March 2014

There will be a pre-meeting, 7pm at the Red Roaster before the 8pm Rob Evans talk.

Agenda

1. Election of new members 
2. Reports 
3. Support for March 22 anti-racism demo - a coach has been booked and it's on Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/coach-from-brighton-to-stand-up-to-racism-demo-parliament-sq-22314-tickets-10826675879?ref=estw) 
4. Late notice motion for DM on Egypt (this is being raised at a number of branches, more info here: http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.org/)

This part of the proceedings is free to NUJ members.