• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • About LMB
  • Events
  • Blog Archive
  • Members Area
  • NUJ code of conduct
  • Join the NUJ
  • Contact

NUJ London Magazine branch

The online resource for NUJ London magazine journalists

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Hands off FOI – the fight to defend the Freedom of Information Act

19th June 2017 By Adam

Branch meeting, Monday 15 Feb, 6.30pm
Fifth Floor, Headland House, 308-312 Gray’s Inn Road, WC1X 8DP 
(Nearest tube: King’s Cross. Sandwiches and light refreshments provided, baby sitting and reasonable travel costs can be covered.)

Speakers – Katherine Gundersen from the Campaign for Freedom of Information and William Turvill, Journalist at Press Gazette

From Duckhousegate to the Prince Charles spider pen memos, the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act introduced a decade ago has helped to uncover some of the biggest scandals of recent years, news stories that have rocked the establishment and led to major shifts in public opinion.

But since last year journalists and campaigners have been fighting to protect the Act, after a Government Commission threatened to introduce sweeping reforms that could limit our access to information drastically – such as giving MPs the right to veto disclosures and slapping prohibitive fees on FOI requests, moves that could hit investigative journalism in our sector particularly hard.

With the Commission due to report its recommendations any time now, Katherine Gundersen from the Campaign for Freedom of Information and William Turvill, journalist at Press Gazette, will bring us up to date on progress with the campaign to defend FOI and why journalists are fighting not only to preserve the Act but to extend it even further.

Branch AGMThe branch will hold the next Annual General Meeting at the April branch meeting. This is at 6.30pm 18 April 2016, in the Bertrand Russell Room at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4RL.

The meeting will receive reports from the branch committee on activities, membership and finance, and will elect branch officials for the coming year.

Filed Under: News

Primary Sidebar

About London Magazine Branch

Branches are where members can regularly have their say on the union’s policies and activities. It is the branches rather than the chapels (workplace groups) that elect delegates and send motions to the union’s annual conference. Read more

Navigation

  • Home
  • About LMB
  • Events
  • Blog Archive
  • Members Area
  • NUJ code of conduct
  • Join the NUJ
  • Contact

Standing Orders

Find out more about how the branch works, our rules and regulations, how to submit a motion or get elected to union positions.
Read more

Recent tweets

Tweets by NUJmags

Footer

Links

  • National Union of Journalists (NUJ)
  • TUC guide to health, safety and wellbeing
  • NUJ events

Copyright © 2025 · Magazine Pro On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in