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Just read through this - what a wonderful encounter! 🩵 and a great reminder for all of us to absorb more, appreciate more, and write more with our own hands. Thank you for sharing, excited to hear about your next café visit! 🫶
As the #Eurovision Song Contest, the world’s most watched cultural event, got to its customary glitzy end with winning Bulgarian dance anthem #Bangaranga, #thisweekthosebooks says thank you for the music with 2 great reads. thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/eurovision...
Repost: Eurovision high notes and lowThank you for the music, even the silly songsthisweekthosebooks.substack.com
📆 On Tue 28 April @NUJ_LFB is holding a vigil outside @stbrides.com, the Journalists' Church, to honour our colleagues killed while reporting. 2.30-3 pm. Marking International Workers' Memorial Day. #IWMD All welcome 🙏 Please spread the word. www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2604iwmd....
Via @nikatalbot.bsky.social: “How can you not be romantic about #journalism?” A question (and manifesto of sorts) from @joshih.bsky.social of @millmedia.bsky.social & @leakorsgaard.bsky.social of @zetland.dk #ijf26 open.substack.com/pub/nikatalb...
Love, journalism🇮🇹 Insights from #ijf26 in Perugia. Plus: Wikipedia for independentsopen.substack.comReading Lyse Doucet’s book, The Finest Hotel in Kabul, right now, with great interest, @nikatalbot.bsky.social, not just because I lived in Kabul for a year, but I had the privilege of co-presenting on the World Service with her. 1/2 www.nikatalbot.io/p/free-bird-...
Free Bird I AmCelebrating bold women, second acts, and 6 years on Substack. Plus: Unoffice Hours invite.www.nikatalbot.io
BRAVE NEW WORLD? Justice For Creators In The Age of GEN AI AOP Co-Authors New Report Revealing Generative AI’s Destruction of the UK’s Cultural Sector Read the Report: bit.ly/4a1S8a7 Email Your MP: bit.ly/4k3w9V0 #JusticeForCreators #ProtectPromoteInspire
Financial Times launches first Substack newsletter to target younger readers pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/...
Financial Times launches first Substack newsletter to target younger readersThe Financial Times joins titles including the Daily Mail in joining Substack, launching a free weekly newsletter on markets and finance.pressgazette.co.uk
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...
International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against JournalistsMike 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
📣 Members meet tonight 6.30 pm online only @brianone.bsky.social on how he launched @VIEWDigital, to “cover issues that have a major effect on society and get readers talking about them." Plus, new branch & union posts. Please stand. Learn more:
NUJ London Freelance Sept MeetingBrian Pelan on launching a magazinebuff.ly
Last week the NUJ joined @tuc.org.uk's LGBT+ Conference 2025, which emphasised the importance of intersectional solidarity throughout the trade union movement. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/tuc...
TUC LGBT+ Conference 2025NUJ motions on trans solidarity and ethical journalism were passed at this year’s Trades Union Congress (TUC) LGBT+ Conference.www.nuj.org.uk
If you're still building on this July 4th holiday like me, here are two (energetic OR calming) playlists to get you in the zone 👇