Swansea NUJ students gaining recognition

I was flicking through the National Union of Journalists magazine this evening when the headline'Students form chapel' caught my eye.


Above: A piece from the NUJ magazine on the conference I and other student journalists covered last year.

Suprisingly the NUJ magazine has featured the NUJ chapel we are trying to establish at the university in their magazine.

It's only a small piece but nice to see our efforts in Swansea have been recognised.

I look forward to forming a strong NUJ group at the university next year to ensure once myself and other key activists are gone students will continue to reap the rewards from being NUJ members.

Swansea Uni NUJ Chapel

Nine current Waterfront journalists and myself attended the Swansea branch meeting of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) last night, with the view to making the uni a hotbed of NUJ activism.

I gave a brief talk on the NUJ at yesterdays Annual General Meeting (AGM) and mentioned that there was a meeting of the Swansea branch straight afterwards.

The fact that nine people then came along at short notice to the Environment Centre for the NUJ Swansea branch meeting shows the commitment of the aspiring journalists in the Waterfront to succeed as journalists, improve the Waterfront and fight for good journalism.

I am calling a meeting to start the NUJ Swansea University Chapel on:

Tuesday, 23rd at 6pm Venue to be confirmed

Please make the effort to come along if you are passionate about journalism, want to improve journalism at Swansea University and you are willing to do something about it.

Drop me a line at exec@swansea-union.co.uk if you have any questions etc.

Training courses: http://www.nujtraining.org.uk/show_title.phtml?ref=0&category=wales

Calling all journalists

Back in November I attended the Annual Delegates Meeting (ADM) of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) as a student member.

The NUJ campaign to uphold the standards of journalism and for the welfare of journalists worldwide.

During the conference I met delegates from the Swansea branch who delivered a fantastic speech to the conference on the dire state of the Welsh media and the need to start the fight back.

I was also surprised to hear that there are over thirty members of the NUJ at Swansea University.

At the last Student General Metting (SGM) of last year I passed a motion mandating the Students’ Union to pay for all members of the Waterfront to attend NUJ training courses.

I want to get an NUJ chapel, which is NUJ speak for a branch in a certain workplace, at Swansea University so that all aspiring journalists at Swansea University can make use of this and other support the Students’ Union can give.

Joining the NUJ as a student member has many benefits, such as discount on training, support in finding useful work experience and the chance to fight for your future career.

If anyone is interested in helping set up a chapel of the NUJ at Swansea University drop me a line at exec@swansea-union.co.uk

Also the next NUJ Swansea Branch meeting is Monday, 15th which I will be attending, if you are interested in getting involved you are more than welcome to come along.