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NUJ London Freelance Branch meetings
What's coming up in November and December.
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⏰ LFB meeting tonight (10 Nov) - Sorting your finances
A talk on how to handle your taxes and save more with accountant Eric Longley and financial advisor Ion Tsakalis. #MakingTaxDigital is coming.
6.30pm at HQ + online.
Bring your questions...
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A talk on how to handle your taxes and save more with accountant Eric Longley and financial advisor Ion Tsakalis. #MakingTaxDigital is coming.
6.30pm at HQ + online.
Bring your questions...
buff.ly/TCEOwtC
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Laura Davison, NUJ general secretary, spoke to LBC about the future of the BBC following resignations from its leadership. Davison called for governance reform and for the BBC to be sufficiently resourced + free from political interference.
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Laura Davison, NUJ general secretary, spoke to LBC about the future of the BBC following resignations from its leadership. Davison called for governance reform and for the BBC to be sufficiently resourced + free from political interference.
Thanks to accountant Eric Longley and financial advisor Ion Tsakalis for a great session - so many questions! We'll run a money surgery soon.
"It's a privilege to pay tax because it means you're earning money and you're helping other people." 🙏
"It's a privilege to pay tax because it means you're earning money and you're helping other people." 🙏
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thanks to accountant Eric Longley and financial advisor Ion Tsakalis for a great session - so many questions! We'll run a money surgery soon.
"It's a privilege to pay tax because it means you're earning money and you're helping other people." 🙏
"It's a privilege to pay tax because it means you're earning money and you're helping other people." 🙏
Latest addition to the London Freelance Bookshelf ✍️ 📚
ROGUE - the rise and fall of Mazher 'Fake Sheikh' Mahmood by @greenslader.bsky.social and Paddy French @pressgang.bsky.social
Written a book? Submit it here:
ROGUE - the rise and fall of Mazher 'Fake Sheikh' Mahmood by @greenslader.bsky.social and Paddy French @pressgang.bsky.social
Written a book? Submit it here:
The London Freelance Bookshelf | The Freelance
Members write books...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Latest addition to the London Freelance Bookshelf ✍️ 📚
ROGUE - the rise and fall of Mazher 'Fake Sheikh' Mahmood by @greenslader.bsky.social and Paddy French @pressgang.bsky.social
Written a book? Submit it here:
ROGUE - the rise and fall of Mazher 'Fake Sheikh' Mahmood by @greenslader.bsky.social and Paddy French @pressgang.bsky.social
Written a book? Submit it here:
Writers, get ‘money for free’ from @alcs.co.uk ✍️
Submit details of your work in mags and journals by 30 Nov to get paid for secondary uses (members get free ALCS membership)
Visual artists see @dacs.org.uk
Submit details of your work in mags and journals by 30 Nov to get paid for secondary uses (members get free ALCS membership)
Visual artists see @dacs.org.uk
Time to claim cash for copying of your words - fill in ALCS form by 30/11/25 | The Freelance
If you are not a member of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society, join now
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November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Writers, get ‘money for free’ from @alcs.co.uk ✍️
Submit details of your work in mags and journals by 30 Nov to get paid for secondary uses (members get free ALCS membership)
Visual artists see @dacs.org.uk
Submit details of your work in mags and journals by 30 Nov to get paid for secondary uses (members get free ALCS membership)
Visual artists see @dacs.org.uk
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The NUJ has issued a statement in response to the resignations of Tim Davie, BBC director-general, and Deborah Turness, BBC News chief executive
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
NUJ reacts to BBC leadership resignations
The NUJ has issued a statement in response to the resignations of Tim Davie, BBC director-general, and Deborah Turness, BBC News chief executive.
www.nuj.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The NUJ has issued a statement in response to the resignations of Tim Davie, BBC director-general, and Deborah Turness, BBC News chief executive
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
⏰ LFB meeting tonight (10 Nov) - Sorting your finances
A talk on how to handle your taxes and save more with accountant Eric Longley and financial advisor Ion Tsakalis. #MakingTaxDigital is coming.
6.30pm at HQ + online.
Bring your questions...
buff.ly/TCEOwtC
A talk on how to handle your taxes and save more with accountant Eric Longley and financial advisor Ion Tsakalis. #MakingTaxDigital is coming.
6.30pm at HQ + online.
Bring your questions...
buff.ly/TCEOwtC
NUJ London Freelance Branch meetings
What's coming up in November and December.
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
⏰ LFB meeting tonight (10 Nov) - Sorting your finances
A talk on how to handle your taxes and save more with accountant Eric Longley and financial advisor Ion Tsakalis. #MakingTaxDigital is coming.
6.30pm at HQ + online.
Bring your questions...
buff.ly/TCEOwtC
A talk on how to handle your taxes and save more with accountant Eric Longley and financial advisor Ion Tsakalis. #MakingTaxDigital is coming.
6.30pm at HQ + online.
Bring your questions...
buff.ly/TCEOwtC
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And ALCS membership is free to NUJ members.
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
And ALCS membership is free to NUJ members.
⏰ LFB Nov 10 meeting - Sorting your finances
Hear from the money men (accountant Eric Longley and financial advisor Ion Tsakalis) - at HQ talking about how to handle your taxes and save more. #MakingTaxDigital is coming soon. Bring your questions...
Hear from the money men (accountant Eric Longley and financial advisor Ion Tsakalis) - at HQ talking about how to handle your taxes and save more. #MakingTaxDigital is coming soon. Bring your questions...
NUJ London Freelance Branch meetings
What's coming up in November and December.
buff.ly
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
⏰ LFB Nov 10 meeting - Sorting your finances
Hear from the money men (accountant Eric Longley and financial advisor Ion Tsakalis) - at HQ talking about how to handle your taxes and save more. #MakingTaxDigital is coming soon. Bring your questions...
Hear from the money men (accountant Eric Longley and financial advisor Ion Tsakalis) - at HQ talking about how to handle your taxes and save more. #MakingTaxDigital is coming soon. Bring your questions...
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I was honoured to deliver this year’s @nujofficial.bsky.social's Claudia Jones Lecture at the Guardian.
As we face the rising threat of the far right, we must remember her insights into the nature of racism and emulate her inspiring efforts to organise against it.
#BlackHistoryMonth
As we face the rising threat of the far right, we must remember her insights into the nature of racism and emulate her inspiring efforts to organise against it.
#BlackHistoryMonth
October 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I was honoured to deliver this year’s @nujofficial.bsky.social's Claudia Jones Lecture at the Guardian.
As we face the rising threat of the far right, we must remember her insights into the nature of racism and emulate her inspiring efforts to organise against it.
#BlackHistoryMonth
As we face the rising threat of the far right, we must remember her insights into the nature of racism and emulate her inspiring efforts to organise against it.
#BlackHistoryMonth
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The NUJ’s Highland branch has passed a motion expressing “deep concern” around STV’s proposed cuts, warning that viewers would lose vital coverage of public interest stories, damaging democracy in Scotland.
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
NUJ’s Highland branch expresses ‘deep concern’ around STV cuts
The NUJ’s Highland branch has passed a motion warning that STV’s proposed cuts to jobs and programming would, should they materialise, be a huge blow to viewers and democracy in Scotland.
www.nuj.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The NUJ’s Highland branch has passed a motion expressing “deep concern” around STV’s proposed cuts, warning that viewers would lose vital coverage of public interest stories, damaging democracy in Scotland.
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
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Did not know about this before. If you've written articles in the UK which have been copied or used anywhere in the world - I presume also by AI - you can claim for them via ALCS.
Claims must be before 30th November.
Looks like you have to join and become a member.
Thanks to @nujlfb.bsky.social.
Claims must be before 30th November.
Looks like you have to join and become a member.
Thanks to @nujlfb.bsky.social.
Yes, you can claim for articles written in the UK - details here: www.alcs.co.uk/how-it-works...
Articles
Claim for articles you’ve written for UK magazines and journals in the last full-calendar year.
www.alcs.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Did not know about this before. If you've written articles in the UK which have been copied or used anywhere in the world - I presume also by AI - you can claim for them via ALCS.
Claims must be before 30th November.
Looks like you have to join and become a member.
Thanks to @nujlfb.bsky.social.
Claims must be before 30th November.
Looks like you have to join and become a member.
Thanks to @nujlfb.bsky.social.
An inspiring event celebrating freelance journalists and filmmakers 🎥 👏
Congrats to the finalists and winners - looking forward to diving in!
Book now: lnkd.in/ed8VPFRK
Congrats to the finalists and winners - looking forward to diving in!
Book now: lnkd.in/ed8VPFRK
🏆 Join us, & the great and the good from the news & media industry on Nov 26 @BFI Southbank when we celebrate the finalists + announce the winners of the 2025 #RoryPeckAwards. Hosted by Isa Soares CNN.
Tickets🔗 buff.ly/pedyTxo
Show your support for our finalists & freelance journalists globally.
Tickets🔗 buff.ly/pedyTxo
Show your support for our finalists & freelance journalists globally.
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
An inspiring event celebrating freelance journalists and filmmakers 🎥 👏
Congrats to the finalists and winners - looking forward to diving in!
Book now: lnkd.in/ed8VPFRK
Congrats to the finalists and winners - looking forward to diving in!
Book now: lnkd.in/ed8VPFRK
📆 LFB Event: On the Right’s online targeting of journalists, especially women journalists of colour - 28 November.
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Speakers: @TellMamaUK.bsky.social @genellealdred.bsky.social @reutersinstitute.bsky.social and more.
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Speakers: @TellMamaUK.bsky.social @genellealdred.bsky.social @reutersinstitute.bsky.social and more.
Addressing targeting of women journalists of colour - Event 28 Nov | The Freelance
...focusing on targeting of women journalists of colour.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📆 LFB Event: On the Right’s online targeting of journalists, especially women journalists of colour - 28 November.
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Speakers: @TellMamaUK.bsky.social @genellealdred.bsky.social @reutersinstitute.bsky.social and more.
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Speakers: @TellMamaUK.bsky.social @genellealdred.bsky.social @reutersinstitute.bsky.social and more.
Freelance Journalism Award Winners 2025 📝 ❤️
Congrats to all the winners and nominees for your brilliant work. Bookmarking this page so I can have a read later. Thanks to @freelancingfor.bsky.social
Congrats to all the winners and nominees for your brilliant work. Bookmarking this page so I can have a read later. Thanks to @freelancingfor.bsky.social
Freelance Journalism Awards Winners 2025
Time to unveil our judges' selection!
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November 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Freelance Journalism Award Winners 2025 📝 ❤️
Congrats to all the winners and nominees for your brilliant work. Bookmarking this page so I can have a read later. Thanks to @freelancingfor.bsky.social
Congrats to all the winners and nominees for your brilliant work. Bookmarking this page so I can have a read later. Thanks to @freelancingfor.bsky.social
Freelance Nov25: Time to claim cash for copying of your words - fill in the @alcs.co.uk form by 30 Nov ✍️
www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2511alcs....
www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2511alcs....
Time to claim cash for copying of your words - fill in ALCS form by 30/11/25 | The Freelance
If you are not a member of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society, join now
www.londonfreelance.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Freelance Nov25: Time to claim cash for copying of your words - fill in the @alcs.co.uk form by 30 Nov ✍️
www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2511alcs....
www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2511alcs....
Freelance Nov25: Getty Images mostly loses 'AI' case in London. A summary by Louise Poppel at @TaylorWessingUK.
Getty Images mostly loses 'AI' case in London | The Freelance
Good news for 'AI' mythology
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November 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Freelance Nov25: Getty Images mostly loses 'AI' case in London. A summary by Louise Poppel at @TaylorWessingUK.
LFB Nov 10 meeting - Sorting your finances 💸
6.30pm
The money men - accountant Eric Longley and financial advisor Ion Tsakalis - will be at HQ talking about how to handle your taxes and save more. #MakingTaxDigital is coming. Bring your questions...
6.30pm
The money men - accountant Eric Longley and financial advisor Ion Tsakalis - will be at HQ talking about how to handle your taxes and save more. #MakingTaxDigital is coming. Bring your questions...
NUJ London Freelance Branch meetings
What's coming up in November and December.
buff.ly
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
LFB Nov 10 meeting - Sorting your finances 💸
6.30pm
The money men - accountant Eric Longley and financial advisor Ion Tsakalis - will be at HQ talking about how to handle your taxes and save more. #MakingTaxDigital is coming. Bring your questions...
6.30pm
The money men - accountant Eric Longley and financial advisor Ion Tsakalis - will be at HQ talking about how to handle your taxes and save more. #MakingTaxDigital is coming. Bring your questions...
💻 NUJ Ethics Council webinar: Reporting on terror attacks and murder
19 Nov, 5.30pm
How do we do it responsibly and sensitively? Hear from Rosalind Ereira @survivors_a_t, Marie Percival @AdvicIreland and Chair Prof C Frost.
Book now:
19 Nov, 5.30pm
How do we do it responsibly and sensitively? Hear from Rosalind Ereira @survivors_a_t, Marie Percival @AdvicIreland and Chair Prof C Frost.
Book now:
NUJ Ethics Council webinar: reporting on terror attacks and murder
Join the NUJ’s Ethics Council on 19 Nov for a webinar focusing on ways to responsibly and sensitively report on terror attacks and murder.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
💻 NUJ Ethics Council webinar: Reporting on terror attacks and murder
19 Nov, 5.30pm
How do we do it responsibly and sensitively? Hear from Rosalind Ereira @survivors_a_t, Marie Percival @AdvicIreland and Chair Prof C Frost.
Book now:
19 Nov, 5.30pm
How do we do it responsibly and sensitively? Hear from Rosalind Ereira @survivors_a_t, Marie Percival @AdvicIreland and Chair Prof C Frost.
Book now:
Some TV coverage of our event to mark #IDEI2025
#EndImpunity
- via @presstv.bsky.social
x.com/PressTV/stat...
#EndImpunity
- via @presstv.bsky.social
x.com/PressTV/stat...
November 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Some TV coverage of our event to mark #IDEI2025
#EndImpunity
- via @presstv.bsky.social
x.com/PressTV/stat...
#EndImpunity
- via @presstv.bsky.social
x.com/PressTV/stat...
#StopTheFreelanceRipOff - still time to write to your MP about your freelance troubles with late payments and more.
Here's the letter we sent to London MPs to inspire your own communication.
Here's the letter we sent to London MPs to inspire your own communication.
Stop the freelance rip-off - letter to MPs | The Freelance
Provided to inspire your personal message
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November 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#StopTheFreelanceRipOff - still time to write to your MP about your freelance troubles with late payments and more.
Here's the letter we sent to London MPs to inspire your own communication.
Here's the letter we sent to London MPs to inspire your own communication.
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International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists
Mike Phipps reports on an important meeting highlighting a global offensive against one of our key democratic freedoms. Sunday 2nd November was the UN-designated International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. To…
Mike Phipps reports on an important meeting highlighting a global offensive against one of our key democratic freedoms. Sunday 2nd November was the UN-designated International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. To…
International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists
Mike Phipps reports on an important meeting highlighting a global offensive against one of our key democratic freedoms. Sunday 2nd November was the UN-designated International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. To mark the occasion, the National Union of Journalists London Freelance Branch partnered with King’s College London Global Digital Cultures Research Group and King’s College London Universities and Colleges Union branch to hold a symposium.
labourhub.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists
Mike Phipps reports on an important meeting highlighting a global offensive against one of our key democratic freedoms. Sunday 2nd November was the UN-designated International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. To…
Mike Phipps reports on an important meeting highlighting a global offensive against one of our key democratic freedoms. Sunday 2nd November was the UN-designated International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. To…
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Thank you to #MikePhipps for this report of @nujlfb.bsky.social marking of the UN Day to end impunity for Crimes against Journalists held annually on November 2nd
labourhub.org.uk/2025/11/04/i...
labourhub.org.uk/2025/11/04/i...
International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists
Mike Phipps reports on an important meeting highlighting a global offensive against one of our key democratic freedoms. Sunday 2nd November was the UN-designated International Day to End Impunity f…
labourhub.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Thank you to #MikePhipps for this report of @nujlfb.bsky.social marking of the UN Day to end impunity for Crimes against Journalists held annually on November 2nd
labourhub.org.uk/2025/11/04/i...
labourhub.org.uk/2025/11/04/i...
NUJ: "There is no evidence that, as a journalist, he is guilty of a terrorist offence, and he should be released." #SamiHamdi #pressfreedom @ifjglobal.bsky.social
USA: NUJ calls for release of journalist detained by ICE
The NUJ has joined the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in calling for the immediate release of UK journalist and political commentator Sami Hamdi.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NUJ: "There is no evidence that, as a journalist, he is guilty of a terrorist offence, and he should be released." #SamiHamdi #pressfreedom @ifjglobal.bsky.social
Remembering journalists and media workers killed in the Israel-Gaza war - updated again
@InfoPJS @pressfreedom.bsky.social @ifjglobal.bsky.social
#EndImpunity #IDEI2025
@InfoPJS @pressfreedom.bsky.social @ifjglobal.bsky.social
#EndImpunity #IDEI2025
Remembering journalists killed in the Israel-Gaza war | The Freelance
Reporters must be protected
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November 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Remembering journalists and media workers killed in the Israel-Gaza war - updated again
@InfoPJS @pressfreedom.bsky.social @ifjglobal.bsky.social
#EndImpunity #IDEI2025
@InfoPJS @pressfreedom.bsky.social @ifjglobal.bsky.social
#EndImpunity #IDEI2025
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#Palestine: Sad news. Ahmed Abu Mutair, engineer at production company Palestine Media Production (PMP), working for German @ZDF , was killed when PMP's premises were hit by an Israeli rocket strike in Deir AlBalah on Sunday @InfoPJS
#NoImpunity
www.ifj.org/media-centre...
#NoImpunity
www.ifj.org/media-centre...
Palestine: At least 224 journalists and media workers killed in Gaza / IFJ
[UPDATED 21.10.2025] At least 224 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed, several have been injured and others are missing during the war in Gaza. The International Federation of J...
www.ifj.org
October 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
#Palestine: Sad news. Ahmed Abu Mutair, engineer at production company Palestine Media Production (PMP), working for German @ZDF , was killed when PMP's premises were hit by an Israeli rocket strike in Deir AlBalah on Sunday @InfoPJS
#NoImpunity
www.ifj.org/media-centre...
#NoImpunity
www.ifj.org/media-centre...