Media Workers CV19 Crisis Network was set up by journalists and media professionals to tell truth to power and fight industry job cuts as the pandemic rages
Joined April 2020
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‘Gaza is now a different colour from space’: Corey Scher, a mapping expert at the CUNY Graduate Center, found that over two-thirds of all structures in northern Gaza have been destroyed. Scher said, “It’s a different texture.” aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/…
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This week @tortoise are doing what they do best: diving deep into an issue that generates lots of media heat but little light, and producing genuinely fresh reporting
'Crossing the Channel' explores the UK asylum system and kicks off with a great podcast:
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What kind of country awaits asylum seekers reaching the UK?
This week’s Slow Newscast investigates what happens inside Napier Barracks – a former military base turned asylum centre that has become a flashpoint in the UK’s immigration debate.
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This is spot on from Unite👇
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When #enoughisenough. Look what you’re doing @RishiSunak, do the right thing and talk with #ExcludedUK.
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This weekend! @AntiRacismDay International Conference features #BlackLivesMatter activists, @GedGrebby @ShakaHislop @jeremycorbyn #JusticeforBellyMujinga. Key Greek anti fascists on defeat of Golden Dawn. Artists from @lmhrnational! Register at cutt.ly/sutrconf
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From burnout to disinformation: Journalists face alarming challenges during COVID-19 rappler.com/world/global-aff… by @CamilleElemia Global study by @emilybell @TowCenter @julieposetti @ICFJ #CourageON
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UK govt scientists are being blocked from speaking to media because of what is being called the “difficult political landscape.” One contributor to research we are publishing tonight was banned from speaking to a journalist this morning. Welcome to the totalitarian state of GB.
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🎥 Manchester student Izzy explains why her and other students protesting on campus today #StudentsBeforeProfit
#PeopleBeforeProfit #EmergencyProgramme #NoUnsafeWorkplaces #DefendJobs #ExtendFurlough
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Patrick Vallance: “We don’t have this under control.” Much emphasis on hands-face-space, but without a functioning test-trace-isolate system in the absence of a national lockdown this situation will get much worse.
BBC: "It is not thought the virus was transmitted within schools". Huh?
Scotland and Northern Ireland see 53 school outbreaks already – as BBC tries to deflect skwawkbox.org/2020/08/29/sco…
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Bloody hell. Highest death toll in Europe. Second highest deaths per capita in the world and worst case mortality rate in the world. And this piece is in @telegraph. Revealed: How, on every measure, Britain's response to the Covid pandemic has been woeful
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This is the #NUJ picket line in Redditch this morning - our journalists are on strike today to defend local news & jobs, asking for fair pay, & standing up for quality journalism. Show your support & solidarity! nuj.org.uk/news/newspaper-jo… #Midlands #Redditch
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It's a bit of a disgrace that no journos have been invited to @MattHancock public health speech - he is not being pressed on ANY important point. Tone set when @Policy_Exchange host said 'no outrageous questions'
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When I was asked on the @BBC to comment on the high Covid mortality in BAME groups, and the advice to wash hands, my response was structural racism. But what should we do tomorrow? Tomorrow we should address structural racism. I repeated it several times evening and morning.
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🚨Let’s support our #NHS workers.
Join the demonstrations around the country this Saturday: bit.ly/8AugMap
On the Downing Street March last Wednesday they chanted “You clapped us, then slapped us, now pay us!”
#NHSPay15 #NHSPay #NHSPayRise #FromClapToSlap
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I’m glad I did that explainer about what the law means but part of me wishes i’d just done this
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“The government is passing the buck on this big decision to employers. Getting back to work safely requires a functioning NHS Test & Trace system." said Frances O'Grady @The_TUC #media #safety #unions
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One important problem with British journalism is the amount it pays columnists. Boris Johnson got £275k a year to produce perhaps 20 bloviating columns. That would pay for over 1,000 news pieces by good reporters. But opinion and status is valued, while news and truth are not.