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  • NUJ London Magazine Branch AGM – Today 16 Mar

    Our guest speaker is journalist and author Yvonne Ridley – on the war in Iran/Middle East and journalists. 

    Next Monday sees our annual general meeting. Please make every effort to attend – it is your union! Hear reports from the last year and the challenges and opportunities ahead to build magazine membership and activity.

    Before we start the formal AGM business we will have a speaker on the Iran war and journalists (speaker tbc).

    London Magazine Branch AGM – Monday 16 Mar, 6.30pm

    The branch will hold its Annual General Meeting next week. To include Chair, Membership and Treasurer reports plus election of a new committee. 

    Please contact the branch officers on the contacts below if you wish to put yourself forward for a position on the committee and any ideas for planning activity for the year ahead. We encourage members to participate and help run the magazine branch. Can you help plan and organise our monthly meetings? 

    NUJ LMB Zoom is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

    Topic: NUJ LMB Zoom’s Zoom Meeting
    Time: Mar 16, 2026 06:30 PM London

    Please note the NEW zoom meeting link below – please only use this zoom link 

    Meeting ID 822 2363 2244
    Passcode 937660

    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82223632244?pwd=PDjpSuHBpiRpcbFvmPkorxwSwvLjpX.1

    Contact for any queries (please use all email addresses for a speedier response):

    Niall Mulholland (chair): nialldmulholland@gmail.com

    Mike Simons (membership officer): mikesimons@btinternet.com

    Join our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/groups/LondonMagsNUJ/

    Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13019132/

    Visit the branch website:https://www.nujlmb.org.uk/

    Follow us on X: @NUJmags

    Follow us on Bluesky: @nujmags.bsky.social

  • Join us at the NUJ LMB/LFB winter party on Tuesday 9 Dec!

    Join us at the NUJ LMB/LFB winter party on Tuesday 9 Dec!

    We are delighted to invite you to this year’s London Magazine Branch and London Freelance Branch’s winter party.

    When: Tuesday 9th December from 6.30pm until 9.30pm ish (we’ll need to clear and vacate the venue by 10 pm).

    Where: St Anne’s Church Hall, 55 Dean St, Soho, W1D 6AF (Soho’s best-kept secret!)

    The nearest tube is Piccadilly Circus but Leicester Square and Tottenham Court Road stations are also at a short distance from the venue, as well as many local buses. Here’s the location in Google Maps.

    Food and drinks: There will be vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free food choices as well as soft and alcoholic drinks.

    Accessibility: The church hall at St Anne’s is fully accessible for wheelchair users and there is an accessible toilet in the venue.

    If you can help out setting things up, please come a bit earlier – we will also need volunteers during the evening and for clearing up.

    We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday!

    In solidarity, The London Magazine Branch committee

  • EVENT: End impunity for crimes against journalists – 2 Nov 2-5pm

    EVENT: End impunity for crimes against journalists – 2 Nov 2-5pm

    Panel Discussion on the United Nations international day to end of impunity for crimes against journalists. 

    The National Union of Journalists London Freelance Branch is partnering with King’s College London Global Digital Cultures Research Group and King’s College London Universities and Colleges Union branch to hold a symposium to mark the UN Day to end Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists.

    We will be hearing from John McDonnell MP; CEO of Basement Films, Ben De Pear;  broadcaster Sangita Myska; Neve Gordan, professor of human rights law at Queen Mary University of London; Tayab Ali, of Bindman’s solicitors; Dr Moosa Qureshi of Health Workers 4 Palestine; and Joseph Willetts, the Parliamentary Liaison Officer for CAABU – for what promises to be an in-depth examination of how to protect the messenger.  

    UNESCO – the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization – states that “ending impunity for crimes against journalists is an essential precondition to guarantee freedom of expression and access to information for all.” The unprecedented number of journalists slaughtered in the Gaza genocide gives this new urgency. As UNESCO continues: “journalists, media professionals, and associated media personnel exercise their duties in highly dangerous contexts. Too many pay an unacceptably high price, including death, enforced disappearance, torture, unlawful detention, and kidnapping, for producing independent, reliable, and verifiable information. Whether reporting on conflict, humanitarian disasters, climate or health crises, journalists continue to face disproportionate threats and higher levels of impunity for extrajudicial killings, torture, en- forced disappearances and arbitrary detention, as well as intimidation and harassment, both offline and online.”

    We invite journalists and students to join us from 2-5pm at the Nash Lecture Theatre on the Strand Campus at King’s College London for a panel + reception.

    Book now: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/londonfreelancebranchnationalunionofjournalists/1900658