Reach blames Facebook for revenue decline
Reach, the UK’s biggest regional newspaper publisher and owner of the Mirror and Express, blamed Meta for a slump in digital revenues as the social platform changed the way it displays news.
Reach to cut 200 jobs
The publisher has announced plans to make 102 job cuts in editorial roles out of 200 across the group. 253 journalists have been placed at risk.
#NUJReachStrike – Solidarity messages
Messages of solidarity for NUJ members on strike at Reach newspapers and websites have been posted on Twitter all day.
Press agencies' body hits out at Reach's paltry rates of pay
Jon Harris, of the National Association of Press Agencies, has written an open letter to Reach Plc’s editor in chief Lloyd Embley to protest at the company’s ‘’paltry’’ rates of pay to freelances in the wake of today’s journalists’ strike.
Reach journalists call for company bosses to reinvest their excessive pay deals to fund a fair wage for staff
They tell the company’s chief executive and chief financial officer to use their £7m pay packages towards a fair pay deal for staff.
NUJ chapel shames Reach over hypocrisy
A motion from the NUJ Reach group chapel urges bosses to deliver a fair pay package that values staff and begins to address pay inequalities.
NUJ Branch October 2020
Pippa Crerar, Daily Mirror political editor, on press and government relations during the pandemic; Paul Siegert, NUJ national broadcasting organiser, on the union's Hands off Our BBC campaign; and The Voice's Izin Akhabua on why unions must listen to under-represented groups
MPs and MSs asked to support campaign against mass redundancies on Reach Welsh titles
More than 90 journalists in Wales have been told they could face redundancy, putting democracy at risk.
Reach to cut 550 jobs
The owner of the Mirror and Express and the largest local newspapers group is cutting its workforce by 12 per cent.
Government must stop press paranoia, says NUJ
The NUJ condemns government officials who barred certain news organisations from a political journalists' briefing at Number 10.