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¶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
* Features R us writing courses
* Structuralism union consultation
* AD Freelance sought: CRA campaign co-ordinator
 

¶July 2008

* Pics returned eventually
* The Trireme Award Carlisle News + Star / Yahoo!
* Copyright matters Commons meeting report
* Save the BBC! and also C4 and ITV...
* Vote early, vote up to four times! Video of election hustings
* Branch cyberdemocracy how'd that work, then?
 

¶June 2008 - online only

* Meet the candidates hustings 29/05/08
* York on strike from 22/05/08
 

¶May 2008

* Dear editor... campaign on commissioning
* The right to photograph tell your MP to sign up
* Avoid October surprise! tax timetable tightens
* Ethical conundrums? helpline launched
* The Trireme A tight-fisted business start-up
 

¶April 2008

* One's a crowd against protest gags
* Vallée victory Met pays up
* Calling new members gathering 17/04/08
* WWWhat? guide to this site
* US visa your inflexible friend
* Press Freedom Day event 02/05/08
* Money for free! so how they get that, then?
* Signal failure broadcasters seek rights, again
* NUJ slams SOCPA demands to work free from threat
* Template for success can you help with InDesign?
* Going through the motions how union annual meetings work
* LETTER Tarik Ramadan writes: thank you!
* Democracy in motion how Branch business works
* Freelance Directory update your entry now
* Take note! Branch seeks note-takers
* Iraq + 5 meeting 10/04/08
* Express strike Fridays from 11/04/08
 

¶March 2008

* Churnalism matters media freedom meeting
* Calling BBC freelances! demand representation
 

¶February 2008

* Citizen journalism Milton Keynes has strikes to 07/02/08
* Guildy as charged screenwriters' strike goes on
* Copyright stripped away? keeping identifiers
* Ac-cred-i-tate! Northcliffe's odd charge
* Lapdancer protects morals right to right credit, that is
* Calling BBC freelances! demand recognition
* Subbing days course 11/03/08
* Harare help aid to Zimbabwe union
* Terror teach-in seminar on the Acts 19/02/08
* The Trireme World's Fair
* LETTER Off the buses
 

¶January 2008

* Multimedia, NUJ, freelances convergence report
* Fees Guide updated more info now!
* Comment négocier? course handy for Europe 01/03/08
* Guardian warning archive demand
* BBC alert strike imminent?
* ALCS election vote by 04/01/08
* BBC petition sign it now
* The Gong Sweet & Maxwell (not the freelances to annoy)
* LETTER Shifting that rate
 

¶December 2007

* Monitor policing more mixed mores
* Paypal painless payment abroad?
* Quality meet 06/12/07
* Dutch treat rates agreement not a cartel
* Radio wave we support Mexican radio
* BBC petition vexation without representation!
* What structure? to build a union
* Casual clarification some rights after two years
* LETTER Rewrite rejected
* LETTER Collective action!
 

¶November 2007

* Great expectations of orphans what will become of authorless works?
* A Charter for freelances EFJ Charter of Freelance Rights
* Name, lens and number? problematic police
* Comment is frequently bad-tempered Guardian's Comment is Free blog
* No to Getty giveaway photographers resist
* Nobody expected beer Palestine camera debuts
* We want recognition at the BBC 05/11/07 meeting for BBC freelances
* Dublin do convergence conference 20/10/07
* Trireme Award Bikesport News
* LETTERS Infrequently thanked
* The first casualty of war? conference 17/11/07
 

¶October 2007 - online updates

* Tax time 30/09/07
 

¶September / October 2007

* Frequently Asked Questions updated advice/help
* Musos' managers' mania muted gig contracts update
* Who can you photograph? children? model releases?
* Mixed Met message policing update
* Victory protects sources Ackroyd wins at last
* Readier reckoner what're you worth?
* Objecting in Parliament Square? NUJ Day of Action 05/11/2007
* Trireme Award Johnston Press papers
 

¶August 2007

* Beware draconian libel laws challenge contracts and insure
* Copyright can make you money cheap course for members
* Consultations who owns the news & vulnerable workers
* Then and now... history meeting
 

¶July 2007

* We need to talk about money raising your rates
* The Gong Officer magazine
* DACS Payback 2007 and opting your photos out
 

¶June 2007

* Girl left alone photographers boycott Dolly Parton's gigs
* Act to defend the Act! Free information
* Freelances mostly do well at Annual Conference
* Always ask for more money Times Supplements success
* Big it up for copyright! conference report
* Free Alan Johnston! action continues
* The Gong Time Out
* Attention! Electronic Media Publications Ltd
* Know your copyrights briefings on copyright now available
* Remember, remember... the 5th of November
 

¶May 2007 - online updates

* Defend Freedom of Information time to act again - don't let Parliament get away with it!
* Keeping information free Commons meeting full report
* Free Alan Johnston gathering 14/05/07
* Safety of Journalists Parliamentary meeting 25/04/07
 

¶April 2007

* You can be stopped for no reason 'camera can be a weapon'
* No pictures! says Npower - injunction overturned
* Information wants to be free Commons debate 16/04
* The Gong Entertainment Weekly
* Arrest apology for Andy Milton Keynes is sorry
* BBC strike suspended
* LETTER 0 for appearance
 

¶March 2007 mini issue

* Time to Free Information deadline 08/03/07
* Conduct becoming? code debate
* Get libel insurance and keep fighting those clauses
 

¶February 2007

* Pray for Freedom of Information! submissions by 08/03/07
* Mail on Sunday - payment when? members get in touch
* Interactive innovation progress report
* Informers "killed ten" now NI police want search powers
* Evening Standard rights grab members get in touch
* BACS to basics no more excuses
 

¶January 2007 - double issue with Dec 2006

* The Trireme Award Mélange magazine
 

¶December 2006 - printed with January 2007

* All go with Adobe photographers' directory is live
* Money from stock photos prepare for constant change
* Copyright grab alert Johnston Press
* Equality For All training 12/01/07
* British Library Readers' Group (a week later: 04/12/06)
* The Freelance issue issues
 

¶November 2006

* What subs want! and how to get it?
* An injury to one... LFB photographer injured
* Healthcare ahoy! calling EMAP
* Library of bauble? British Library mystery
* Rock and rôle! writing course 10/11/06
* The Gong Platinum Entertainment
* Strike alerts Telegraphs & Guardian
* Remember Martin O'Hagan prosecute his killers 28/09/06
* On the move the Freelance on mobile phones
* The Gong Trinity Mirror Group
 

¶October 2006

* New musical excess don't sign that contract!
* Barking and snapping council chamber pix
* Low Pay in the Media summit 04/11/06
* Gaza job, then? our correspondent doesn't report
* The Gong Elle & Grazia
* Attention! Madafu Publishing
* LETTER No college confusion there
 

¶September 2006

* College confusion over copyright
* Pay battle moves to S Yorks strike 12-18-19/07/06
* Social and informal Ukraine speaker
* Agents in the clear Treasury speaks
* BBC consultation over radio shifts agreement
* Life not thru a Lens snappers, paper boycott Robbie Williams
* Student membership come 'n' get it!
* Attention! TickTock Media
* ADVERT DACS Payback 2006
 

¶August 2006

* No hedgehogs please... perils of BBC privatisation
* Submit to the Code conduct of a review
* Avoid phish with chips don't get caught
* The Gong Profile Pursuit
* REVIEW I'm dealing with the cat litter
* Opting your photos out DACS deal detail
* Sorry to Safari browser users try other browsers, please
* ADVERT DACS Payback 2006
 

¶July 2006 (or June/July)

* Re: Proposal pitching plan
* A new way to sell photos NUJ on Adobe directory
* Creating rights... Copyright matters
* Liability limited talking pays
* Q/Mojo working! new agreement
* Source bottle eighth hearing to protect informant
* Unsettling news US copyright action
* Vests and libel signs of Press Freedom Day
* Do as we say, not... Freelance apologises
* The Gong Sunday Times
* Leeds alert balloting now
* Bolton bursary for photographers
* Ice-cold in Alex diversity prize
* LETTER We're worth the money
 

¶June 2006 - online only

* Red card for Trinity Mirror 04/05/06, 10:30am, Liverpool St
* New news network now QualityStreet to share
 

¶May 2006 (or May/June)

* Paddick's promises right to report
* Quality networking - sweet! sign up to talk now
* Rates on the move Fees Guide launched
* Nailing Northcliffe Bristol bonding
* 'One shit-hot negotiator' Guide gets results
* Photo matters at Annual Meeting
* Are we a 'business cartel'? threats to organising
* Uncontempt member exonerated
* The Trireme Award Euromonitor
* Attention! Push Hockey Ltd
* LETTER Free file locking and more
 

¶April 2006

* Doing our Job full Brian Paddick debate report
* Copyright grabbed and returned again
* Make nice! Make false! barmy book brief
* New Fees Guide launches 23 March
* Attention! Pagemedia Publishing
* The Gong Glasgow City Council
* Eurocult no, it's a bursary
* New news network meets 20/04/06
* Forms for fun and profit ALCS registration kit
 

¶March 2006

* Lexis alert have you had the new contract?
* A 'vital public interest' Robin Ackroyd wins
* Only doing our job! Commons debate notes
* LETTER Socialist realism
 

¶February 2006

* Sacrosanct sources? Robin Ackroyd back in court
* What, then, is to be done? make your concerns union matters
* Have we a right to report? March Commons meeting
* League lockout get in touch if football's sent you home
* Posh paper people's place network meetup 20/04/06
* Give us a flash! OK by us, says TUC
* A Guardian non-exclusive! snappers' licence
* Attention! Highbury House Communications
* Only connect charity contacts
* The Gong Haymarket Publications
* LETTER Euro payment tips
 

¶January 2006

* Seasonal survival tips for a trying time
* Show me the money the rewards of copyright
* Justice for Eileen Tower Hamlets action - strike 11/01/2006
* Greed's the word Bristol resists - protest 20/12/2005
* Peace and conflict Stop the War starts a row
* Familiar new face Assistant Organiser
* The Gong Didsbury Magazine
* Freelance assistant post election 09/01/2006
* Berlin journalism fellowship deadline 20/01/2006
 

¶December 2005

* Free love, fair dealing debate on "citizen witness" reporting
* Go West Country! Northcliffe campaign soars
* Go to Stop the War... conference place going spare
* Bristle con pain Northcliffe protest 06/12/05
* New emergency numbers in case of arrest
* Linear regression? rates for women
* Colombia calling solidarity mission report
* O Canada! CBC workers return with wins
* City Life in the balance Manchester meanies - write now!
* Ask Kate! © advice sessions
* A bone to pick... osteoporosis writing awards
* Guardian rise new agreed minimum
* Your Branch needs you! Committe jobs to consider
* Belonging to a branch which one for you?
* LETTER Bye-bye dodgy cheques!
 

¶November 2005 - online only

* Citizen can notes for a debate 14/11/05
 

¶October 2005

* Brought to book US authors sue Google
* Getting our souls back no to 'no compete' contracts
* The Freelance new post and apologies
* Attention! TPL Realisations, formerly Ticktock Publishing
* Trireme Award Hackney Gazette
* LETTER Keep clear
* LETTER Singapore Tax
 

¶September 2005

* ©laim & ©ounter ©laim 30/09/05 US deadline
* Citizen hack? diversity and dangers
* Slam-dunk for snapper settles for £45,000
* He's a fair cop, guv Paddick's promise
* Is Auntie fair to you? tell us if the BBC's bad to you
* Stay safe, stay together public order training trial
* Opting your photos out DACS deal detail
* What does it take? debate at the Commons
* Is the cup half full? Pay in the Media gig 19/11/05
* They're back South London & Coventry return
* Solidarity, eh? Canadian lockout call
* Express arrives minimum rate agreed
* The Trireme Award Motorsport News
* Video nicey © show for your branch
 

¶August 2005 - virtual Freelance

* Public Order law at the G8 notes from a talk
* More Indymedia seizures can computers drop rocks?
* What does it take? our debate at the Commons - in full
 

¶July 2005

* Journalists are all overpaid, right? discuss - at the Commons
* Fresh Fees Guide discussion fora launched
* Good news! C4 doesn't want universal rights...
* LETTER Dire Straits
* ADVERT DACS Payback 2005
* ADVERT Guild of Health Writers awards
 

¶June 2005

* BBC strike postponed no longer 31 May/1 June
* Victory in Scotland snappers win £20k
* Annual Delegate Meeting mostly harmless
* Sell it again, Sam syndication sagas
* Bohemian threnody Queen want snappers' souls
* Don't get PINned down Press Card checks
* Attention! Motorcycle Voyager
* Attention! SA Publishing Ltd
* LETTER Late payment law works
* The Gong Nursing Standard
* Attention! Another Generation
* ADVERT Guild of Health Writers awards
* ADVERT DACS Payback 2005
 

¶May 2005 - online only

* Fight photo free-for-all! can TV use pix for "review"?
* Attention! Tramp magazine
 

¶April 2005

* Brought to book nonfiction authors' bind
* Print-on-demand guidance to authors
* Time for a treasure hunt Guardian looses grip
* Our exiled friends at home Zimbabwean organisation
* In the middle attacked from all sides
* The Gong BBC Online times out
* Your cheque is in the dog the ultimate excuse?
* Court at last for Scottish snappers
* Attention! Pictorial Post
* LETTERS If you don't ask, you don't get
 

¶March 2005 - online only

* Indy accept offer 3% on salaries & shifts
* Glittering Prizes and Fellowships
 

¶February 2005

* Please release me... beware small print
* Trinity reincarnated deal done, no strike
* Payback pays out £2.25M for images
* The Trireme/Gong Heritage Magazine
* What it's worth snap unhappy
* Perfect Pitch course on making deals
* California dreaming Fellowship fantasy
 

¶January 2005

* Kiev, we have a problem international rescue
* Indymedia puzzle who took it?
* Freelances activated conference excitement
* Reuters wire watch for strike
* Days of your number press card PINs needed
* The Haymarket rite late payment - & a network?
* LETTER Warning!
* The Gong Front magazine
* Attention! Pullout Promotions Ltd
 

¶December 2004 - online only

* Photographers' meeting digital costs09/12/2004
 

¶November 2004

* Who is the censor? Who took Indymedia down & why?
* MEN make peace dispute settled
* Quite another country notes from "Iraqi Kurdistan"
* Exile on mean street What do exiled journalists need?
* Ethics on the table conference 04/12/04
* LETTER Rates testimonial
* LETTER Tapes & tribulation
* LETTERS In solidarity with whom?
 

¶October 2004

* The attempt to cut off my voice Ewa J writes from detention
* Visa views revised US 'clarifies' advice
* MEN behaving badly support sought
* Call for tenders Updating the Freelance Fees Guide
* LETTER Lecturers wanted
* LETTER A small irony
* LETTER Two kinds of freelance, no contradiction
* LETTER Photographers' Fees Guide
* The Gong Press Gazette & EMAP Performance
* Attention! Asian Woman & Asian Bride
 

¶September 2004

* Kiev leak hits Web Gongadze papers released
* Seek a better deal negotiations course 27/10/04
* Ewa Jasiewicz is ejected from Israel LFB member silenced by security services
* The joy of the deal to wellness via the kasbah
* Football's going home... got a Premiership licence?
* Attention! Tense magazine
* The Gong Daily Record magazine
 

¶August 2004

* All together now... organising contradictions
* The first amendment annoying book bans
* Coventry not out offer accepted
* Subterranean editors wellness and its opposite
* The Gong Q: expenses from 20 months ago
* LETTER Wall-paper
 

¶July 2004

* Less trouble at t'mill Blackpool strike suspended
* NotFromBrum photos from protest in Nottingham
* Visa waver maybe you need an 'I' after all
 

¶June 2004

* Junis Kuthair is free! after London protest 24/05/04
* Hacks on the Mersey beat NUJ annual conference
* In visa veritas doing work in the US? You could be a business
* Freelance wellness members facing the downside
* Attention! Network Lifestyle Magazines
* Attention! Pacific Publishing Ltd
* Trireme Award www.myvillage.com and its cashless economy
* Attention! Indobrit Magazine Ltd.
* Attention! ASG Marketing Reality Ltd.
 

¶May 2004 - online only

* Defend the BBC! Send your Charter Review responses
* A run for your money for Members in Need
 

¶April 2004

* Angry Haringey locked-out press officers protest
* Performance performs agreement struck
* Manchester offline network forming 31/03/04
* Fiction's flexible friends How the other half live
* The Gong TV production company DoRo: 25 months
* Volunteer time Branch Equality Officer wanted
* Attention! New York Times
* Attention! Touch Magazine
* Attention! West Africa Magazine
* Face to face with racism meeting, Leeds, 13/03/04
 

¶Mar 2004

* Strike alert Telegraph, German papers & French radio
* A cautionary tale how not to protect a source
* Sources of anxiety debate at the Commons
* We're winning on rights not quite there, but advancing
* Getting started as a freelance course, Manchester 06/03
* Set out your stall... in the Freelance Directory
* Opting your photos out of the DACS money collection
* LETTER Live now, pay later?
* The Gong Los Angeles Times: £500 owed for over a year
* Political fund proposal Members' meeting 12/02
 

¶January 2004

* Go to jail Go indirectly to jail, to protect a source?
* The political fund it's how, not whether, we campaign
* Silence Not an Option Belfast conference on protecting sources
* Infernal machines scrub that drive to protect your sources
* Fair use? photographers let us know
* Worldwide worry waiting for Walden
* The Gong The Business
* Branching together NUJ London branches forum
* London calling do the BBC survey
 

¶December 2003

* Dread in Babylon report from Iraq
* Policing incident report form don't just mutter, grumble!
* Only doing our job... meeting with the Met
* The Beeb front do that survey please!
* Recycling win for ex-Melody Makers
* The Gong Sweet & Maxwell and Lexis-Nexis
* Friends of the court for Paul Trummel's appeal
* LETTER Us are not amused
 

¶November 2003 (online only)

* Still out but not down support Abdul & Adli
* Stop the lies NUJ on the demo 27/09/03
 

¶October 2003

* Emap's tiny terror and an answer
* The BBC respects rights The BBC has always respected rights...
* Dear Independent nice campaigning, but this injustice at home...?
* Attention! Indigo Publications
* Courseucopia training for you
* Not forgetting Martin... killed 28/09/2001
* The Gong Fiesta - took three months to come
* Dear Independent... nice paper, shame about the terms
* Record rate? £29,000 for one character...
* LETTER Oarsome! But no thanks...
 

¶September 2003

* Out but not down Abdul & Adli confront Dyke
* Better deals can be yours free course 15/10/2003
* Sweet things in life LFB member is 92
* Beer, no skittles Guy welcomed back
* Moving on copyright consultant ceases
* BBC freelances, tell us... do this survey now, please
* LETTER Thanks for the solidarity
* Library to go WW2, steel, Eastern Europe books
* Attention! Saleworld Publishing
 

¶August 2003

* Geneva grenade grief Guy grills government
* NME Unoriginals NME & Melody Maker contributors' alert
* Battle of the Titans Corbis v Amazon
* Remember Gyorgi public meeting 16 September
* Case closed member's investigation hits the mark
* LETTER Tax credit credit
* LETTER State of © Play
* AD Creators' Rights Alliance: administrator
 

¶July 2003

* Geneva, city of grief LFB member maimed by police...
* Tell MPs about freelancing consultation until 09/06/03
* Meetings mean money the importance of being networked
* Snap to it! photographers' meeting
* Copy right cash coming but beware the catch!
* Independent variable giveth with one hand...
* LETTER O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
* Kiev off UK government on Gongadze
* Dale debate ethics in Hebden Bridge 24/06/03
* Still remembering May Day in Belfast
 

¶June 2003

* Stop Digging in the dirt boycott Gabriel!
* Special photographers' meeting tell the GS what you need
* Mojo keeps working agreement at EMAP
* NewsQuest continues support strikers
* Support Abdul and Adli against BBC's peremptory dismissal
* Baghdad café support indy media in Iraq
* Winning ways Annual Delegate Meeting 2003
* Picture this £000s for you?
* AirNet stops that flyaway feeling broadcasters network now
* Travel writing its part in saving the world
* The Gong Rolling Stone: nine months to deliver a kill fee
* Votes for all! including temporary members
* Attention! India Today
* We are restless photo exhibition
* LETTER How the giants really work
 

¶April/May 2003

* The job of the rates how to get better pay
* Chop, starve or build? freelances need representation
* A world to win photographers need global reach
* Euromoney? get in touch
* Baghdad blues don't do this, kids...
* 'The media is reality' war coverage notes
* Trireme Award Cat News races to the bottom
 

¶March 2003

* Whistleblower vows justice for Gyorgy Gongadze
* Battle in Bradford & Kendal watch for strike calls
* Underdogs bite back IndyNet launched
* Rough at the top Guides chapel forms
* Calling all subs network now!
* LETTER On whose behalf do you think you rant?
 

¶February 2003

* Rupert in the line of fire picket Wapping 28/01/2003
* Reinstate Mark at the Rotherham Advertiser
* Who owns that? database launched
* The Trireme Award Cat World underdone by This England
* Appealing decision Robin gets his day in court
 

¶January 2003

* Sources in peril we want whistleblowers
* The review reviewed NUJ reformed?
* Stash that script prove it's your idea
* Good and odd news on the rights front
* Changes in Dublin new organiser
* Your Branch Needs You! what the officers do & how to be one
* Autosport? Sports Markup Language!
* Hogwash harried NWU vs AOL
* Reclaiming our past oral history project
* LETTER Someone doth protest too much
 

¶December 2002

* Auntie's agony over? BBC agreement near
* Tidings of comfort... for Prisoner 007
* Do panic! Rough Guides chapel forming
* Radio rates industry agreement renewed
* Trireme Award Microsoft Windows XP: The Official Magazine
* War and the Journalist Reporters Sans Frontières meeting
* Attention! Fitness First
 

¶November 2002

* Hacks on the edge who killed Marty, or Gyorgy?
* EMAP pays up settles dispute
* Victories in Copenhagen union must negotiate authors' rights
* Rovers v rights copyright talks
* Attention! Survive magazine
* Course work training feedback please
 

¶October 2002

* EMAP - pay up! disputes news
* To corporate bullies An open letter from Steve Platt
* Interest info handy calculator
* Work that ol' Mojo... freelances submit claim
* Sports Council 0, archive 0 photographers claim for lost pix
* TV tomes www.tvfreelancers.org.uk
* Picture post register now for £€$$
* Barter blues? who's promising favours not cash?
* AOL Time Warner "The Copyright Snatchers"
* Editor crediter nominate your favourites
 

¶September 2002

* Should you be a company? not really, says Eric the Accountant
* Limit yourself and save £ € $ says Chris Wheal
* Contrôl ffruciau Labour in Wales grabs ©
* Flim-flam Four guess what?
* Age shall not wither us... equality feedback please
* Cop a load of this... hack of the future?
* Credit where due honour fair editors
* Attention! Skynet Communications
* Attention! Garrick Media
* LETTER Call me an ambulance
* Attention! Non-League Paper
 

¶Summer 2002 - online only

* Choosing a computer advice to print for technophobic friends
 

¶July 2002

* Radio gaga Radio journalists, it's time to get together and talk
* Surviving as a sub LFB discussion
* Action blooms in Spalding LFB ventures out of Town
* Terms tested members keep their work
* Goldenballs late payment excuse #50
* Exhibit! enter your images
* Does age matter? have you experienced ageism?
 

¶June 2002

* Hello hello hello... meeting in London, beating in Dublin
* Face facts covering conflict - Genoa 2001
* They're at it again twisted rights-grabs
* Money for old rope? register with ALCS / DACS
* LETTER A load of ballots?
 

¶May 2002

* For those in peril... reporting in Palestine
* How it should have been presentations at ADM
* The Freelance smart but cheap
 

¶April 2002

* Unlikely bedfellows in the authors' rights arena
* "You can't do that here!" security gets officious at NUS rally
* Reporting conflict send your tips
 

¶March 2002

* Tips for survival in war zones Cassian Harrison at LFB
* Quoting when is it OK?
* Act against author abuse German publishers get nasty
* Financial Terms? FT hacks get in touch now
* Fly on the wall come to Annual Delegate Meeting
* Make more money course in negotiating
* More money for doing nothing if your book's in the library
 

¶February 2002

* Are authors' rights a scam? invitation to a debate
* And in other news... see these elsewhere
* Attention! Inline Publishing
* The Freelance schedule strangeness
* Get your green form register for equal opps monitoring
* Brum Post & Mail freelances get in touch!
* AD Creators' Rights Alliance conference
 

¶January 2002

* Protecting your sources against computer snoopers
* The Terrorism Act how will it affect journalists?
* Footballers settle while the Freelance is in the post...
* Reporting conflict? Do it safely!
* Your Branch Needs You! what the officers do & how to be one
* Economist Intelligence, please get in touch if you work for EIU
* LETTER British journalism and racism
* AD Creators Have Rights video
 

¶December 2001

* Our job is the truth reporting war: issues for journalists
* Sporting shares support soccer stars' struggle!
* Dole stalks D'Olier Street Irish Times trouble
* His own man in Havana debate on press freedom
* Jeremy Dear new NUJ General Secretary
* `I'd like to thank the subs...' British Press Awards 2002
* Have you written about copyright?
* LETTER Don't get caught in that 'net'
* AD Major study of freelance journalists
 

¶November 2001

* Remember Gyorgi Gongadzi murdered Sept 2000
* Create copyright concern launch of a campaign
* Court and spark copyright victories and backbiting
* Dear M.P... a draft letter
* Dennis Bardens a visit from probably our oldest member
 

¶October 2001

* Freelance sues over detention Mayday 'kettle' challenged
* Face the music troubled IPC media, sense@New Music Monthly
* Guardian contract `optional' says Managing Editor
* Set out your stall online! remember the Freelance Directory
* Trireme Award wcities.com underdoes itself
* Warning list useful links
* LETTER Thank you... SNAP suport
 

¶September 2001

* Yes, you have rights Supreme Court rules for NY Times freelances
* Indy-cision? - sign up for more!
* Beck called - snappers don't
* Attention! Companyleader Ltd
* LETTER My dollar lies over the ocean...
 

¶August 2001 - advance stories for Sept

* Scottish snappers strike deal - with Business a.m.
* Victory for US journalists Supreme Court upholds copyright
 

¶Jun/Jul 2001

* Mind how you go LFB briefing meeting on demo reporting
* Trireme Award Coffee News
* Auntie coughs up at the World Service
* LETTER Advertising union posts
 

¶May 2001

* SNAP to the Sheriff NUJ defends Scottish snappers' archives
* Independent advice reply to grab
* We can work it out talks with the Guardian make progress
* An outbreak of consensus at Annual Delegate Meeting
* Picture this monitoring the right to report
* The Date for the Job - aka The Gong Westminster Adult Education
* The deal with IFS financial advice
* Hacks' last resort the Newspaper Press Fund
 

¶April 2001

* Edinburgh freelance lockout Scotsman snappers call for boycott, paper goes fundamentalist
* Payback 2001 photographers claim a share of over £300,000
* The Non-League Paper not a rights grab after all
* Muzik pickz your pocketz another IPC alert
* Make More Money course in negotiating
* The virtual Branch new, easy web addresses
 

¶March 2001

* Freedom down to us Commons debate on the Right to Report
* Marx 1, Globe 0 US freelances win, replay soon
* Instant lobby EuroParliament listens, it seems
* For proper journalism investigative, that is
* US freelances' day in court Supreme Court date set for 28 March
* Battling for Creative Rights conference 14 March
* YARG at IPC! Link up now! Yet Another Rights Grab
* Lifting rights and uplifting rights progress at the Guardian
* Trireme Award Appropriately, Ships Monthly (IPC)
* Confirm and deny commissions clear
 

¶January 2001

* Street smarts we need your feedback on protest practice
* Recognition at last how will official union recognition affect freelances?
* A Right to Report? kicking off a debate
* Rights-grab resistance roundup and contacts
* The Trireme Award Paragon, publishers of Practical Internet
* Disappear pesky pix & notes
* Your Branch Needs You! what the officers do & how to be one
 

¶December 2000

* Now, e-dinburgh Scottish snappers unite online for decent working conditions
* VNU alert! they're at it again
* Fog on the Mersey grabbers at work
* Supreme challenge NWU goes to top court
* Getting paid on the Web NWU strikes deal with site
* Online syndication ByLine - a new source of revenue for freelance journalists?
* Murdoch runs a gauntlet of hate opposes performers' rights
* Rights roundup time who owns what where?
 

¶November 2000

* EMAP pays up, oddly and raises ethical questions
* Viva ©he! ad agency pays up for photo abuse
* Open Civic Forum freelance gets active in Northern Ireland
* Support your local ex-spook David Shayler joins us
* D'you want garnishee with that? collecting what's due
* Fill in forms for fun and profit! keep in touch and get paid
* Life after RIP conference on keeping confidences
* Dorling Kindersley photographers please get in touch
* Corbis more suits leave
 

¶October 2000

* Bill's basket case Corbis in trouble with photographers
* Free-lens manifesto French photographers rally
 

¶Aug/Sept 2000

* Authors' Rights for all rights-grabs & the Summit
* On the money financial journalism accounted for
* A journalist's desk is her castle Court protects sources
* Boston ©-party Marx -v- Globe lawsuit
* Write to your MPs now tell about rights-grabs
* Photos talk Corbis rethinks its contracts
* Winning with web work negotiating online rights
* Unfree French protest "liberticide" law on photojournalism
* LETTER A right to be paid?
* The Trireme Award wcities.com
 

¶July 2000 - special briefing on rights grabs

* Briefing on new copyright grabs Mail, Standard, FT and Economist
 

¶June 2000

* Reasons to be radical introduction to a campaign
* A global campaign on Authors' Rights
* Lens wars at NatGeo, Corbis, & the Boston Globe
* Geeks get a grip nix CIX T&Cs
* Snappers' dosh £160k from DACS
* Learn your AB© - © in schools?
 

¶May 2000

* Online organising gets results - Business Week strikes deal
* The wise & foolish... Virgin gives in!
* Now, northern network Broadcasters launch online Northern Freelance network
* Broadcast seeds getting into TV?
* Letters Healthlines & Optimus
* www.mybyline.co.uk self-referential photos
* Geek-agony column: Connecting your modem when you're abroad
 

¶Mar/Apr 2000

* Disreputable professions Howard Brenton's take on journalism
* Déja vu again idea-ripoff reports needed
* If you don't ask you don't get EMAP Healthcare freelances do and do
* Northern freelances get results Abramsky backtracks on metropolitanisation
* Tony Stone, phone home what photo contract do you work under?
* Witness protection? report problems with ACPO guidelines
* Pressing for union rights conference report
 

¶Jan/Feb 2000

* Northward Ho! Broadcast freelances organise in the North of England
* All together to tame the Beeb NUJ has teamed up with other unions to challenge the BBC over its attitude to copyright.
* LETTER Nursing Times replies
* NUJ legal advice a clarification
 

¶Nov/Dec 1999

* Ed's free, but watch your back more seizure orders expected
* Don't let it bug you... Y2K is (mostly) harmless
* Rights for staff © isn't just for freelances
* Copyright: The big picture WTO, GATS, WIPO explained
* LETTER A disgrace to journalism
 

¶October 1999 special

* US freelances win their work back - victory in Tasini -vs- Times
 

¶September 1999

* Notice this! Make sure contracts hold water...
* Network now! we want to hear from you
 

¶Jul/Aug 1999

* Not a rubber stamp court refuses pix
* Fleeting image make your troublesome pix vanish
* Accruals made easy positive tax planning
* Talk about talk real life negotiations
* VNU breaks wind - asks what freelances think
* Webbed tales online rights grabs
* Street-wisdom meeting for photographers
* Stay in touch! Freelance organising news
* Virtual LFB needs a body part-time post...
* Half man, half hoarse Centaur Communications rights grab
 

¶May/Jun 1999

* Come in nº 6! - Visual Creators' Index launch
* Freelances where in the NUJ? NUJ Annual Delegate Meeting 1999
* Eyebrows bizarrely raised... NUJ Annual Delegate Meeting 1999
* Are you or have you ever been a freelance contributor to the BBC?
 

¶Mar/Apr 1999

* Tick like a lawyer Late Payment Act trips in
* Whores with principles debate ownership of the media
* This land is ours... not trademarked
* Emap Metro - the real deal non-talks produce a real-result
* Put it in writing new commission forms
 

¶Jan/Feb 1999

* E-mapping a way forward... We have an agreement at Emap Healthcare
* Literate, nous? a tale from the Dark Tower
* Will Blair take on the media moguls? Not likely! (February meeting at the Commons)
* Render unto Cæsar... National Trust claims England™
* Review Look around you...
* Review Carnage of misjustice
* BBC Offline Alan Pearce's grievance website
 

¶Nov/Dec 1998

* Taking freelances to the heart of the NUJ a conference for freelance members
* Don't be duped! lost slides = loot!
* High drama the RSC claims all
 

¶Sep/Oct 1998

 

¶August 1998

* Healthcare freelances break new ground freelance group's resistance turns to talks
* X-ray machines and your film
 

¶July 1998

* Some forgotten corner of a foreign field? why moral rights could be a matter of life and death
* Fairness for whom? - response to White Paper
* Randomly reaching you why the Freelance is late
 

¶June 1998

 

¶May 1998

* CinVen or sin bin? IPC is bought out
* Farringdon farrago the Guardian still bullying
* Will it sell itself? try with ByLine
* Trouble at t'mill Morning Star on strike
* How do I get wired? a guide to ISPs
 

¶Mar/Apr 1998

* Nothing to Fear? Privacy & Press freedom debate at House of Commons
* The future looks Brighton branch relaunched
* Between rock and a hard place IPC photograpers resist
* Academic assertions ALCS stands up
* Anne Bolt award prize-giving scheduled
 

¶Jan/Feb 1998

* We want our share! freelances kvetch about union funding
* EMAP health freelances network takeover galvanises hacks
* Dutch treat! Dutch freelances win on electronic rights
 

¶Nov/Dec 1997

* "Please, eliminate the poison" Freelances' plea to National Executive
* A look in the Mirror unions under siege
* IPC's at it again on... guess what?
* Getting started as a freelance a LFB course (Or is that 'an LFB...'?)
* Revenue redux guidance on tax
 

¶Sep/Oct 1997

* The argument from Design beware rights clause
* Photomanipulation time to show what's real
* We was hard, but we was fair our secret weapon gets results
* Anne Bolt memorial award launched for young photographers
* The Daily Mail new rights-grab
* On your Guardian get in touch!
 

¶Jul/Aug 1997

* Don't mourn, organise! Freelance trade unionism is a useful contradiction...
* The reasons for our success Macmillan journalists organise
* What a tangled Web TotalNews settles, Shetland News fights on
* Auntie gets our story in a twist the BBC backs down, -ish
* Prime time for tolerance IFJ meets on racism and press freedom
 

¶Special (not in paper edition)

* Better living through mathematics? Questions about trade union "right to recognition"
 

¶May/Jun 1997

* Cheques, Cheats, Charters and the BBC Birtists Blagging Copyright
* As serious as your life! internet pillage + happy ending
* IPC: the chapel lives! (as an underground trade union organisation)
* How do you think Bill got that rich? Now he's trying to grab copyright. He's never done it before... perish the thought...
* Do you work for the Guardian? Then come to this meeting
* Biters bit, bite back Publishers want to hang onto © shock!
 

¶Mar/Apr 1997

* Information gap is international a freelance's trouble with government in Denmark, yet
* The Independent gets even meaner
* The Guardian The contributors' meeting
* James O'Halloran In Memoriam
 

¶Jan/Feb 1997

* Department of No Help (You want to know what the government's doing? Ha!)
* Licence to shoot? No government licensing of journalists!
* Who owns your identity? digital watermarking must be an open standard
* ©hiseller of the Month more copyright silliness from the Evening Standard
* Error: no data database providers fail to talk
* What do we want? European Federation of Journalists paper on authors' rights
* Anne Bolt obituary
 

¶Special (not in paper edition)

* NUJ supports internet publisher against court threat to Web links
 

¶Nov/Dec 1996

* You have your cake, they eat it (Newer, subtle Times rights grab)
* If you Mac it, mark it! report on photomanipulation policy
* O vanitas, O cash in hand! using the Net to detect rights abuse
* Paying us pays off shock! (Or so finds Harper's)
* A helping hand Get started as a Freelance seminar
 

¶Sep/Oct 1996

* You may already have won... don't lose out copyright licensing registration drive
 

¶Jul/Aug 1996

* The Norwegians have arrived staff journalists get agreement on electronic rights
* Associated Press-gang AP claims all rights in pix
* The Happy Freelance how to be just that?
* Paragon's virtues they cough up for rights abuse
 

¶May/Jun 1996

* Standard loses bottle manipulates Prescott photo
* Playing a win-win game psychological advice on negotiation
* Future is brighter it negotiates over electronic rights
* Atlantic Monthly throws in the towel and pays for electronic use
 

¶Mar/Apr 1996

* Be on your Guardian over rights they're trying to grab them, in case you hadn't guessed
* Registering your work your questions answered
* Electronic rights EU hearing on the Green Paper Copyright and related rights in the information society
 

¶Jan/Feb 1996 (part)

 

¶Nov/Dec 1995 (part)

 

¶August 1995 © special (part)

* Nightmare on 43rd Street New York Times rights grab
 

¶July 1995 (part)

 

¶Apr/May 1995 (part)

 

¶March 1995

* Hope across the water NWU lawsuit launched
 

¶Jan 1995 - in which we discover authors' rights

* Fierce contracts come thick and fast the historic headline at the start of the UK copyright battle
 

¶February 1974 - the oldest we've found

* Page 1 (460kb .PNG) - full subs rise to £18 a year
* Page 2 (580k) - members must not use fax machines!
* Page 3 (630k) - Newspaper Soc agrees 7% rise, NPA 20% on photos
* Page 4 (460k) - Time Out features from £15 to £20 per thou
 
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