Facebook News launched in Britain on Tuesday, delivering users of the world’s leading social network curated news content bought from traditional publishe
Similar photographs taken at other sites, including University Hospital Southampton, also appeared on social media. But the pictures were taken in areas that are not on the frontline in the fight against the virus. On her Facebook profile Ms Dean claimed to be a freelance journalist and that she worked for the NUJ, but the statement has now been taken down. Seamus Dooley, the NUJ’s assistant general secretary, had called for Facebook to remove the claim. He said: Hannah Dean has no connection with the National Union of Journalists. The information on her website is incorrect and I have written to Ms Dean asking her to correct this misinformation.
Comorian authorities should immediately cease their legal harassment of journalists Oubeidillah Mchangama and Ali Abdou Mkouboi, and permit them and FBCK FM to report freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On January 7, members of the Comorian gendarmerie arrested Mchangama, a reporter with the Facebook-based news outlet FCBK FM, as he reported on a protest in Moroni, the capital, according to statements posted by the National Union of Journalists in the Comoros
BBC tops £1m on legal fees fighting equal pay and race discrimination cases
The BBC has spent more than £1m on legal fees fighting equal pay and race discrimination cases brought by staff, it has been disclosed.
The corporation hired external solicitors to spend 2,688 hours on equal pay and race discrimination employment tribunal claims brought since July 2017, and was billed £1,121,652 in fees for both solicitors and barristers.
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The figures do not cover costs of ongoing tribunal claims.
The BBC was unable to put a figure on additional costs of using in-house lawyers to deal with staff allegations concerning equal pay or race discrimination, but says that more than 2,400 hours were spent on such cases.
THE BBC has “defended the indefensible” by spending more than £1 million fighting discrimination cases instead of “sorting things out sensibly,” the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) said today.
In a letter published by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sports Committee (DCMS), the broadcasters disclosed that it paid the sum in legal fees to external barristers and solicitors to deal with tribunal claims brought by staff in equal pay and race discrimination cases.
The BBC was unable to put a figure on additional costs of using in-house lawyers to deal with staff allegations concerning such cases.
But it did acknowledge that more than 2,000 hours were spent on them. The figures do not cover the costs of ongoing tribunal claims.