MMU multimedia journalism students Alicia Russell and Rosa Bown join tutor Pete Murray on a walking tour around the history of radical journalism in Manchester. In this podcast, they speak to researcher Kathy Davies about the Manchester Guardian archive, to current Northern Editor Helen Pidd, also Joshi Herrmann from the Manchester Mill, and founding editor of the Manchester Meteor, Conrad Bower.

Episode #2 of ThePicketLinePodcast, and we speak to Rebecca Long-Bailey MP on the future for students amid the current universities pay and conditions dispute. We also hear from UNISON strikers, from James McKenna of the TUC, and from members of the Ver.di union.

Updates on the dispute via Twitter @manmetucu and @ucu #UCUrising. Thanks for listening

Welcome to an episode of ThePicketLinePodcast, as members of the University and College Union join strike action across the sector. We speak to UCU general secretary Jo Grady, and to students and UCU members about today's action. We'll be back on Friday (25/11) with another episode. For more info about the UCU campaign, go to UCU.org.uk

Solidarity, and thanks for listening

This week: the arrest of journalists covering Just Stop Oil protests in Hertfordshire; we look at Contempt of Court issues following the death of a student in Manchester last month; and we speak to Sir Bob Neill MP from the Justice Select Committee about improving media access to Family Courts and the wider justice system.

The Justice Committee Report is here: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmjust/339/summary.html

Read more about Tortoise Media, in-depth coverage of UK and world news, and watch previous ThinkIns here:

https://www.tortoisemedia.com/

Our coverage of Luke O'Connor's murder and more is here:

https://thenorthernquota.org/

Dave mentions two Contempt cases.

GB News and the Colston statue trial, here: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jan/07/gb-news-accused-of-prejudicing-colston-four-trial

And Rod Liddle over the Stephen Lawrence murder trial, here:

https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/spectator-to-face-contempt-charge-over-lawrence-trial-article/65553.article

More details here about the Islamophobia Awareness Month events which Ruby discussed:

https://umsu.unioncloud.org/iam

And the Ofcom report Pete refers to is here: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/information-for-industry/guidance/diversity/diversity-equal-opportunities-tv-and-radio

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In the new format for Bang To Rights, we're heading out into Manchester City Centre for an audio tour of the National Trust's "sky park" urban regeneration project at the Castlefield Viaduct.

You can find out more about the project here:

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/castlefield-viaduct

You can read more news and reporting on sport, fashion, politics and entertainment at TheNorthernQuota

https://thenorthernquota.org/

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @thenorthernquota

For debate and discussion on media law, mobile journalism, and more, follow us on Twitter @RightsBang.

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Welcome back to Bang To Rights. We're back with a new format, new stories. In this episode, we speak to Alison Millar, director of the new film Lyra about the life and legacy of the renowned young investigative journalist Lyra McKee.

Watch a trailer for the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdhF6_UaEzY

We also hear from Nic Newman, a co-author of the Digital News Report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. We discuss the DNR's findings on "news avoidance" and the rise of TikTok with Jennifer Jones, reporter from The Scottish Sun.

Read the DNR in full here: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2022

Catch up on more of our reporting on TheNorthernQuota.org.

Podcast presenters: Aroob Quaimkhani, Pete Murray, Tanya Ullah, Zara Gallimore.

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Rebecca Redican presents this week's NQ Live programme. We report on the Budget, the "Girls Night In" boycott in Manchester, protesting against drinks and injection spiking, and on the hopes among the Man Met delegation travelling to Glasgow for COP26.

Follow all the Northern Quota news at https://thenorthernquota.org/

Rebecca Redican reports for The Northern Quota on the Mock COP26 conference held at Manchester Metropolitan University. Students met in a series of role-plays as members of government, NGO, or multinational company delegations to thrash out resolutions designed to confront global warming.

The conference was organised by MMU's Professor Liz Price.

Bang To Rights is back - with a guided walking tour around some of the milestones in the history of journalism in Manchester. We start with the foundation of The Manchester Guardian in response to the Peterloo Massacre of 1819, and follow the traditions of radical journalism right up to the present day.

Our thanks to Kathy Davies of Sheffield Hallam University, Helen Pidd of The Guardian, Joshi Hermann, founder of The Mill, and to Conrad Bower, co-founder of The Meteor.

Presented by Dr Eleanor Shember-Critchley and Pete Murray of Man Met Uni's multimedia journalism department

Recording the voices of ICU nurses and doctors treating patients with Covid-19, or a crowdsourcing journalism project to examine the future of government after the lockdown, to the sound of the Coronavirus itself, this week there's more from the crew on how journalists around the UK and beyond are responding to the health emergency, and finding innovative ways of documenting the biggest story of our lives.

Listen to Radio 4's The NHS Front Line here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h5l1

Read more about The Tortoise slow news website and subscribe to The Sensemaker here: https://www.tortoisemedia.com/sensemaker/

Ofcom's survey on false claims about the virus is here:

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/media-releases/2020/half-of-uk-adults-exposed-to-false-claims-about-coronavirus?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Half%20of%20UK%20adults%20exposed%20to%20false%20claims%20about%20coronavirus&utm_content=Half%20of%20UK%20adults%20exposed%20to%20false%20claims%20about%20coronavirus+CID_f74d1c411c5fe38865813ae53cdc2ba1&utm_source=updates&utm_term=news%20release

The NCTJ's advice on covering Coronavirus and Covid-19 is here: https://www.nctj.com/latestnews/seven-tips-journalists-reporting-covid-19-science-media-centre

Read about the MIT project to turn the structure of the virus into music here:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/scientists-have-turned-structure-coronavirus-music#

And you can read tributes to the late Dennis Aris on the Westmorland Gazette website:

https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/18353165.tributes-paid-retired-gazette-journalist-loses-battle-coronavirus/

And also on Holdthefrontpage:

https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2020/news/first-rate-journalist-dies-aged-76-after-coronavirus-battle/

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