Posts in the "Freedom Of Expression" category
Who Remembers Charlie Hebdo?
Posted on January 29, 2015
NUJ Irish Secretary, Seamus Dooley outside the Charlie Hebdo offices, Paris
Séamus Dooley, Irish Secretary, NUJ
Every morning I click on the International Federation of Journalists’ website.
On the top right hand corner there’s a black countdown clock. It details the number of journalists and media staff killed so far this year.
As I write – on January 29 - that number stands at 22.
This week my NUJ colleague Jim Boumelha, President of the IFJ condemned the brutal murder of Mexican journalist Moises Sanchez Cerezo, from the town of Medellín de Bravo, in the state of Veracruz.
Permanent link | Comments (0) | Categories: Charlie Hebdo • Media • NUJ • Freedom of Expression
Don't Hold the Front Page
Posted on April 26, 2017
Acting NUJ General Secretary
Ahead of World Press Freedom Day and as Ireland drops in the Press Freedom rankings, NUJ Acting General Secretary Seamus Dooley says yes, there is a crisis in the media and yes, we should be worried
Those who lament the passing of the traditional newspaper are in danger of sounding like a blacksmith bemoaning the arrival of the automobile.
The digital revolution has swept away old certainties and challenged our assumptions about ‘news’.The fact that everyone can become a reporter is empowering. No longer do you have to buy ink by the barrel in order to exercise power and influence.
Permanent link | Categories: Press Freedom • fake news • media ownership
European Pillar of Social Rights Offers New Hope for Social Europe
Posted on December 16, 2016
ETUC Confederal Secretary
The EU is slowly emerging from the worst economic crisis in its history.
One of major casualties of that crisis was the European Social Model, undermined and weakened by the official response to a meltdown in the financial system.
Fundamental social rights and public services have been sacrificed. But an EU focused only in the market will not maintain the support and trust of workers and citizens.
With a third of workers across the EU struggling to make ends meet, Europe urgently needs a new social pact.
We need more Social Europe.
We need a vision that is bold enough to redress the glaring imbalance in the current model, that restores the primacy of livelihoods and living standards in EU policy.
Permanent link | Categories: EU • Social Europe • European Pillar of Social Rights