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¶December 2009 - online only

 

¶November 2009 - in the post / PDFs: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5

* ©hange is in the air copyright update
* Work beyond the media Oct meeting report
* Get that book published Sep meeting report
* Eurodosh for investigators apply by 08/11/09
* Tarik is safe journalist gets asylum
* Which training? NUJ asking you
* The Trireme Greenwich Time
 

¶October 2009 - online only

* A crowded orphanage copyright update
* Google books update court hearings delayed
* Do you work at Sky? get in touch!
* Understanding company accounts course starts 14/11/09
* Amnesty photo events 29/10 & 18/11 & 30/11/09
 

¶September 2009 / PDFs: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6

* We're not terrorists police change advice
* Monetizing the interwebs google in doo-do
* From staff to freelance making the switch - report
* Insert protest here at the Guardian
* What's your shift worth? ready reckoner update
* Diversify or die? some things to do
* You don't ask, you don't get so ask about rights
* Claim cash for photos DACS distribution
* The Trireme Award Chronicle and Echo
* Media for all? Press Freedom conference 31/10/09
* 'Let me steal or I sue' depths of © ignorance
* LETTER Gong muffled
* Journalist job deadline 21/09/09
 

¶August 2009 - online only

* US investigates Google book deal formal antitrust case
* The Met's journalist helplines Climate Camp & Carnival
* AD Creators' Rights Alliance: administrator needed 04/09/09
 

¶July 2009 / PDFs: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6

* To ride an avalanche photojournalism crisis conference
* Subbing matters so ask for more - meeting report
* From staff to freelance easing the way 27/07/09
* Stop detention without cause member goes to Strasbourg
* Photographer held in cop van colleagues dearrest
* Orphans return haunting US Congress
* Forbidden zones reporters' stories
* Avoid legal trouble meeting report
* The Gong River Publishing
* Vanishing work update so how's it going, then?
* Attention! Freestyle Publications Ltd
* Attention! Zone Publishing Ltd
 

¶June 2009 - online only

* Calling Guardian freelances chapel meeting 25/06/09
* Vanishing media NUJ responds to industry meltdown
 

¶May 2009 / PDFs: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8

* Free tax advice for NUJ members
* Picture of photos survey results
* Choosing a computer appeal for updates
* Freelancing by accident? LFB welcomes you!
* The Freelance going postal
* Could 'public licences' work? consultation on library use
* REVIEW Shafted the media & the miners’ strike
* Review Keeping ethics alive
* Adobe much clearer than mud
* The Gong Anglomania
* Getting started... as a freelance 31/07/09
* Photographers' conference book for 18/05/09
* The Gong NewsBase
* Strike support your ideas please
* LETTER Photographers' protest
* LETTER Ask for more, now
 

¶April 2009 - online only

* Yorkshire Post action dates daily from 20/03/09
* NUJ lobby of Parliament for proper local media 25/03/09
* BBC strikes cancelled
 

¶March 2009 / PDFs: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6

* How many UK freelances? survey by 20/02/09
* News for a round Earth Nick Davies speaks
* Contest cuts! NUJ writes letters for members
* Here to help NUJ Extra the charity
* Digital imaging course confirmed 31/03/09
* A random walk through work by Andrew Collins
* The hokey Coaker mixed messages on the right to snap
* Student snubbed in Square pseudoplod snark shock
* Happy valleys freelances train in Wales
* Expenses pay off courses 21/03/09 & 24/04/09
* Work your proper hours day of inaction 27/02/09
 

¶February 2009 - online only

* Lens limits government says 'cap it!'
 

¶January 2009 / PDFs: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6

* Little Orphan Anomie legislation looms
* Make more money from picture research
* Jobs summit 24/01/09
* Bailiffs ahoy! agencies collect for abuse
* Guardian imagery licence yes, it's voluntary
* Not backing Bauer whatever they claim
* Unsettling unnews online abuse in limbo
* The pod people are here! at the Guardian
* Flat Earth alert Nick Davies talks 04/02/09
* Writers claim now! deadline 31/12/08
 

¶December 2008 / PDFs: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5

* Insure and prosper! NUJ members' deal
* Hark, the Herald photographers organise
* Where to get help the right contacts
* How well is your being? do survey by 05/12/08
* Gi'is an address! time to get the virtual Freelance
* Oh, the ironing! Mail's late-payment campaign
* Let them work! TUC asylum campaign
 

¶November 2008 - online only

* NUJ photo exhibition in Manchester extended until end 2008
 

¶October 2008 - online only / PDFs: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5

* Dublin does it right freelances to get rights
* Messages of support... Sheffield & Midlands papers
* Merlin - one to watch? music independents' forum
* The Gong Green Parent
* New blood sought! for Freelance Branch
* Freedom for Belarus meeting 09/10/08
* Wellbeing! survey for you
* Herald-Times face industrial action over photographers' contracts
 

¶September 2008 / PDFs: p1 p2 p3 p4

* And the moral is... artists abused
* Paid on the nail! PR pressure
* Exploited in Palestine support in conflict
* Twelve million dollars! Photographer's win
* Brief video training sign up and save
 

¶August 2008

* Time for company? maybe form one to save tax
* Red card for red cars Met chides cops
* Baleful Bauer get in touch over contracts
* Structuralism union consultation
* Features R us writing courses
* AD Freelance sought: CRA campaign co-ordinator
 
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