Happy New Year! Don't let troubles at work cloud the year ahead. We’re here to help you stand up for your rights to be treated with #fairness #respect, and due #care for your #health and work-life #balance. Want to know more? Look out for our tailored training sessions in 2026.

“That rare space where intimacy and community collide”. Beautiful writing by David Lloyd in @liverpoolpost.bsky.social about the friendly connection with the world around that is being lost as the BBC ‘stealthily but surely’ takes the ‘local’ out of ‘local radio’ www.livpost.co.uk/losing-local...

A magnificent shout out to @oxfordnuj.bsky.social member @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social , currently heading to London to receive the Clarivate Award for Communicating Zoology, from the Zoological Society of London, for his book ‘Cull of the Wild’ #oxford #journalism @zslofficial.bsky.social

Coming up via NUJ Training Wales - Negotiating #Freelancer fees; essential #mobile #video skills; how to make #AI your content co-pilot; maximising your presence on LinkedIn; media #law for social media creators. Huge discounts for all NUJ members, some free. www.nujtrainingwales.org/events/7885/

We've had a very busy year, responding to the challenges of our changing #media environment, developing a #recruitment strategy, and pivoting to focus more on the priorities of under-served sectors of our changing #membership. Take a look! oxfordnuj.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/p... @NUJofficial

So, I wrote a book. It's out in February but there's an offer on this week if you pre-order it from Waterstones. www.waterstones.com/book/atypica...

We asked: How can we help #freelancers earn more from what we do and branch out into new types of media work? Thanks to all the freelancers who joined us yesterday, online and in person, with great suggestions of the training, panel discussions, and networking they'd like to see.

💻 Making Tax Digital webinar: New HMRC system explained 24 Sept, 10.30 am Learn about the key elements of MTD and get your questions answered. Free workshop for NUJ members. @Equityuk.bsky.social Book now:

Great coverage of our protest by Charlotte Coles in @theoxfordmail.bsky.social www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2542176...

The NUJ has responded to Reform's refusal to speak to Nottinghamshire Live by affirming journalists’ right to report without fear or favour. Media scrutiny of elected politicians is fundamental to the functioning of a healthy democracy. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

"We're here in solidarity with journalists who have been killed [in Gaza]... We want Israel to stop deliberately targeting journalists." @Justajourno speaking at the @oxfordnuj protest today @NUJofficial

Oxford NUJ @oxfordnuj.bsky.social protest in #Oxford Stop killing #journalists in #Gaza @nujofficial.bsky.social

Today @oxfordnuj protested against the killing by Israeli military of 219 Palestinian journalists in Gaza and called for those responsible to be held to account. Journalists must not be targeted for reporting on what is happening in Gaza. Killing journalists is a war crime! @NUJofficial

STOP KILLING JOURNALISTS IN GAZA! #Oxford protest and vigil tomorrow 1.00pm in Bonn square. Please join us to remember more than 200 Palestinian #journalists killed in #Gaza by the Israeli military. The killing must stop! Killing journalists is a war crime! oxfordnuj.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/s...

✍️ Protecting journalists, defending truth in Gaza Add your name to the open letter from UK journalists to @Keir_Starmer @DavidLammy. @IFJGlobal.bsky.social @InfoPJS @warchilduk.bsky.social #pressfreedom Read in full here:

URGENT ACTION: letter to send to MPs re UC bill via Disabled People Against Cuts. dpac.uk.net/2025/07/urge...

Disabled People Against Cuts are launching in Oxford tonight, 2 July. 7pm, online. [email protected]

Disabled Members’ Council calls on journalists to scrutinise UK government claims as welfare reform bill is rushed through parliament. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

I made it clear from the start I could not support the proposals on personal independence payments. It is an in-work benefit, designed to ensure disabled people can live independently. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

UPDATE - Day of action is 1 July not 3rd. More info: dpac.uk.net/2025/06/abou...

Calling NUJ members 📢 - here's our starter pack to connect you with other union members and officials on Bluesky so you can keep up to date with happenings. More folks are joining! DM me if you want to be added & let us know what branch you're in. go.bsky.app/JyaRxx

#Gaza: “It’s all out with the British media. I feel it’s dawning on the people, that actually they’ve been part of the complicity, and they’ve got blood on their hands.” Full report on our May meeting with @OborneTweets on complicity in genocide.

Useful info for members: courses from NUJ Training Wales are open to NUJ members not resident in Wales, at very low fees. Several are online. Topics include: Survive and thrive as a freelancer; Making green claims; Strategically choose your social media platforms. www.nujtrainingwales.org

The Equality Act 2010 gives disabled employees protection against discrimination and the right to reasonable adjustments at work. Find out about reasonable adjustments and neurodiversity at NUJ legal training session coming up on 28 May. Vital info for union reps. www.nuj.org.uk/learn/ems-ev...

Branch meeting this week – join us to hear about recent NUJ Delegates Meeting and plot our next steps. Thurs 15 May, 7pm – Oxford town hall or Zoom.

We’re looking forward to the arrival of members at this year’s Delegate Meeting in Blackpool. Tag us in your posts as we prepare for lively debate and solidarity ✊ #NUJDM2025

Our branch delegates are keeping busy at the @nujofficial.bsky.social delegates' meeting. #NUJDM2025

Today Press Gazette publishes an investigation into how journalist-request services appear to have fuelled a rise in widely quoted experts who either do not exist or have questionable credentials pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Join the NUJ tomorrow for our webinar on poverty and the press. Speakers include Prof. Chris Frost and Dr Rachel Broady from @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, Naomi Southwell from @jrf-uk.bsky.social, and Megan Thomas from the Coalition Against Benefit Cuts. Register➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poverty-an...

We’ll be protesting at the Meta offices today, at 13:30, against the unlicenced use of authors works to train AI. If you can’t make it, make some noise online! Downloadable assets can be found here 👇#DoTheWriteThing #MetaBookThieves societyofauthors.org/2025/04/01/s...

Newsquest now employing 36 ‘AI-assisted reporters’

I don’t really do a lot of politics here but this is an important one. AI isn’t artificial intelligence, it’s a marketing buzzword that will see copyrighted material plagiarised on a massive scale. That is already starting to happen and we need to regulate this new Wild West that threatens creators.

Please ask your MP to sign EDM (Early Day Motion) 1046: News journalism and artificial intelligence tools - calling for "the introduction of effective regulatory protections to protect the future of our media and creative industries." edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

You can make a change 📢 Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training by signing this open letter ✒️ authr.uk/sp40 #MakeitFair #MetaBookThieves #DoTheWriteThing

🚨 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT On Weds 26 March we'll be hosting AI and the Future of News 2025, a one-day conference featuring presentations and panel discussions with journalists and experts from around the world 🧵 Programme and speakers in thread 👉 Sign up now for join us online buff.ly/dEmIIrg

“Understanding is a radical act. It's only through understanding the world that we can change it. Journalism is what makes that understanding possible." Wise words by @iandunt.bsky.social www.iandunt.com/journalist

Thanks #Banbury MP Sean Woodcock for meeting me, Anna Wagstaff of @oxfordnuj.bsky.social & Roseanne Edwards of the Banbury Guardian to hear our concerns re the decline of local #newspapers, a problem for local #democracy @nujofficial.bsky.social l.bsky.social: oxfordnuj.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/b...

Banbury MP Sean Woodcock has signed up to support the NUJ's #FutureForNews campaign and a sustainable future for local news. We're arranging similar meetings with the other six MPs for Oxfordshire constituencies. oxfordnuj.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/b...

It is 40 years since the end of the historic miners’ strike. NUJ branch members organised an event in Oxford in commemoration. oxfordnuj.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/r...

Webinar on Trump's attacks on press freedom - tomorrow night.

We are thrilled to announce that Jelani Cobb will be in Oxford on 10 March to deliver this year's Reuters Memorial Lecture Read @eduardosuarez.bsky.social exclusive interview with him, with insights on local news, media criticism and covering Trump reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/columbi...

TUC launches its AI manifesto. Thread.

Good piece in the latest Journalist mag on the Ofcom report “Understanding misinformation”. It highlights the need to restore trust in mainstream journalism – which is exactly what we are calling for in a motion at April’s Delegates Meeting. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/the...

The Government is siding with big tech over British creativity. Today is the FINAL chance to respond to their consultation on AI and copyright. Let's make sure creators' voices are heard. Guidance below 👇 #MakeItFair #PayTheCreator www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

Once again, it was created by congress in 1961. Any decision to close it requires congress. This move is illegal.

40,000 people have now signed the Statement on AI Training, which says training gen AI on creative work without a license “must not be permitted”. Thank you to all who have signed. Still open ➡️ aitrainingstatement.org

The controller of BBC World Service English has emailed staff saying today's cuts will see eight podcasts and radio programmes decommissioned, including Africa Daily, The Forum, Business Matters and Over to You pressgazette.co.uk/news/bbc-wor...

UK government's AI plans dealt blow as peers vote to reinforce copyright regime 'Everyone should now join the fight by responding to the copyright and AI consultation,' Baroness Kidron tells Charting Gen AI grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/uk-governm...

The BBC is planning to eradicate audio drama from Radio 3, which will be devastating for writers, other creative workers and audiences Pls sign (+share) our joint petition with @equityuk.bsky.social + @societyofauthors.bsky.social to Save Audio Drama at the BBC change.org/SADatTheBBC #ScriptSky

@nujlfb.bsky.social Please could you share our blog post on AI and copyright? Thanks. oxfordnuj.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/g...