Posts Tagged ‘NUJ’
7th October, 2011This page links to the various NUJ rates guide pages and rate submission page, vital resources for all photographers’ and other lens-based media.
The importance of maintaining the NUJ advised rates cannot be reiterated enough. In order for freelances to hatch out a living wage, these rates are constructed to form a minimum rate from regular updated information from union members. In order to maintain, improve, update and continue to validate these rates, members are urged to take a minute to supply information on the rates they are earning. You can do this here at the Rate For A Job submission page.
The Freelance Fees Guide is a good place to start, with rates for all aspects of writing, photography, video and audio.
Photography Rates can be found here.
Videography, a section of the Photography Rates rates can be found here.
LPB, NUJ, Rates, rates for the job
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15th August, 2011
7th August 2011. Police Evidence Gathering Team in Tottenham during disorder. © Jules Mattsson/LNP
The disorder that swept England recently has calmed, leaving untold destruction, injury and a number of deaths in it’s wake. Lens-based journalists are often in the frontline of these situations to report, receiving aggression from all sides.
Already a number of photographers have been injured and mugged while covering disturbances, radio cars burnt and TV networks have had to pull their crews out of entire areas. The risk to media workers in this sort of situation is massive, especially to those who have to work with visible equipment.
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Ethics, Evidence, NUJ, PACE, Police and Criminal Evidence Act, Policing, Press Freedom, Riots, Safety
Posted in News by Jules Mattsson | 2
22nd June, 2011The London Photographers’ Branch sends a message of solidarity and best wishes to injured NUJ member Niall Carson, who was shot in the leg while covering sectarian clashes in East Belfast on Tuesday 21 June.
The NUJ website reported NUJ Irish secretary Séamus Dooley said: “Niall Carson was injured while doing his job. It is vital that journalists should be allowed to carry out their duties without fear of attack from any quarter. This incident is part of a sinister assault on the people of Northern Ireland. The riots of the past two days represent a wider attack on the community, who have a right to live in peace. Our thoughts are with all those who have suffered as a result of the riots over the past 48 hours”.
NUJ general secretary-elect Michelle Stanistreet said: “This shooting is a sharp reminder of the dangers faced by media workers in conflict situations. Journalists and their employers must be mindful of the safety implications of covering conflict situations, while there is also a responsibility on the police to ensure that the media are allowed to carry out their duties in the public interest”.
belfast, naill carson, NUJ, Press Freedom, sectarian
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31st May, 2011
Click here - Video: The Five Stages
Trauma sells, it dominates the news. We read about it every day, images of trauma bombard us through every media outlet. But what happens when the photographer becomes traumatised?
Following our last branch meeting Dealing with Trauma, myself and Branch Secretary Jason Parkinson were invited to a Trauma Retreat, hosted by the Dart Centre in Whitby. We had previously been part of a Dart round table discussion with journalists who had covered the revolution in Egypt, sharing the experiences in covering the uprisings in the Middle East with a view to working more safely in the future.
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dart centre, Ethics, journalism, Journalist, NUJ, Peer Support, Photography, Photojournalism, Post Traumatic Stress disorder, PTSD, Stress, trauma, Traumatic
Posted in News by Jess Hurd | 0
25th May, 2011
Over the last few months PHNAT have been working on a pamphlet that celebrates the history of the I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! campaign. It’s launch party will be at the AoP Gallery at 7pm on the 14th June with free refreshments kindly sponsored by ING Media.
The pamphlet entitled, I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! – A brief History is fully illustrated over 20-pages, written by the campaign’s founders and organisers and will be available for free at the event. It will also be available to download online after the event or you can request a free copy by sending a double stamped self-addressed envelope to Photographer Not a Terrorist, 308-312 Gray’s Inn Rd, London WC1X 8DP.
The National Union of Journalists and the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom have funded the production of the pamphlet, the London Photographers’ Branch and British Press Photographers’ Association have supported the pamphlet.
There’s going to be a callout for images to be shown at the party soon, watch the PHNAT site!
All welcome!
I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist!, NUJ, Phnat, Press Freedom
Posted in News by Jess Hurd | 0
19th April, 2011
NUJ General Secretary Elect Michelle Stanistreet on the picket line. photo © Philip Wolmuth
London Photographers’ Branch members joined General Secretary Jeremy Dear, General Secretary ElectMichelle Stanistreet and staff at North London & Herts Newspapers on the picket line this morning, on the first day of a planned two-week strike over job cuts.
After the loss of five reporters and a photographer at the Enfield-based publishers over the last 18 months, Tindle Newspapers, which made a profit of more than £3 million last year, is left with three reporters and two photographers on its nine weekly titles.
The strikers have organised a demonstration tomorrow, Wednesday 20 April, at noon. More details here.
enfield, Jeremy Dear, london & herts newspapers, michelle stanistreet, NUJ, picket, strike, tindle newspapers
Posted in News by Philip Wolmuth | 1
25th February, 2011The February LNP branch meeting “Tips of the Trade” delivered advice for photojournalists, experience from industry freelancers and insight from those creating and finding new outlets.
Paul Delmar: photojournalist and ex-tutor of the NCTJ Photojournalism and Press Photography course at Sheffield Norton.
Carmen Valino: press photographer working for many local London papers including South London Press and overseas newspapers such as El Pais.
Stephen Simpson: press photographer and head/editor of the new news agency, London News Pictures (LNP).
Sarah Lee: freelance photographer for the Guardian/Observer newspaper.
Carmen Valino, lnp, london news pictures, London Photographers' Branch, LPB, NUJ, NUJPhoto, paul delmar, sarah lee, stephen simpson
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10th December, 2010Wednesday 27 October 2010 saw the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) seminar “Who’s Afraid of Photographers?” held in parliament. The meeting was set into three themed elements with an introductory speech by Liberal Democrat MP Don Foster.
MP Don Foster spoke of the importance of both professional and amateur photography, highlighted the misuse of various laws by police to restrict and stop public photography and called for Section 44 of the Terrorism Act to be repealed.
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Anna Mazzola, Chez Cotton, David Hoffman, Don Foster MP, Jason Parkinson, Jenny Lennox, Jess Hurd, John Toner, NUJ, Parliament, Seminar
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1st November, 2010
Last week’s branch meeting agreed to setup a working group of branch members to liase with other bodies and officials within the union to “establish or re-establish NUJ agreements with national newspapers and news organisations for picture/video rates and commissions.”
The group will co-ordinate the branch’s action to defend established NUJ rates and hopefully secure new ones for members.
All branch members are welcome to join the working group and can do so by signing up to the mailing list.
National Agreement, NUJ, Rates
Posted in News by Jonathan Warren | 0
4th October, 2010Who’s afraid of photographers? That will be the question under discussion at a seminar organised by the NUJ at the House of Commons on Thursday, 28th October.
The persistent problem of police hindrance of photographers will be examined, as will the wider issue of encroaching privacy law. Working photographers and specialist solicitors will speak and there will be ample opportunity for questions from the floor. The event is being organised by the NUJ’s Freelance Office with the support of Don Foster, MP.
Freelance Organiser, John Toner said:
In recent years society has become increasingly suspicious of anyone holding a camera.
A series of rulings on privacy has made life more difficult for photographers and encounters with irate members of the public are on the increase.
We have recorded many instances of police officers who believe they can dictate what is or is not filmed and several cases of officers who believe they have a right to seize cameras on a whim.
We want to discuss how these various issues can be combatted.
Places will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis, and anyone interested should contact John Toner.
Don Foster MP, John Toner, NUJ, Parliament
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