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¶September 2008 - advance items
 

¶August 2008
* Time for company? maybe form one to save tax
* Red card for red cars Met chides cops
* Baleful Bauer get in touch over contracts
* Features R us writing courses
* Structuralism union consultation
 

¶July 2008
* The Trireme Award Carlisle News + Star / Yahoo!
* Pics returned eventually
* Copyright matters Commons meeting report
* Vote early, vote up to four times! Video of election hustings
* Save the BBC! and also C4 and ITV...
* Branch cyberdemocracy how'd that work, then?
 

¶June 2008 - online only
* Meet the candidates hustings 29/05/08
* York on strike from 22/05/08
 

¶May 2008
* Dear editor... campaign on commissioning
* The right to photograph tell your MP to sign up
* Ethical conundrums? helpline launched
* Avoid October surprise! tax timetable tightens
* The Trireme A tight-fisted business start-up
 

¶April 2008
* Vallée victory Met pays up
* One's a crowd against protest gags
* Press Freedom Day event 02/05/08
* WWWhat? guide to this site
* US visa your inflexible friend
* Calling new members gathering 17/04/08
* Money for free! so how they get that, then?
* Signal failure broadcasters seek rights, again
* NUJ slams SOCPA demands to work free from threat
* Freelance Directory update your entry now
* Going through the motions how union annual meetings work
* Democracy in motion how Branch business works
* Take note! Branch seeks note-takers
* Template for success can you help with InDesign?
* LETTER Tarik Ramadan writes: thank you!
* Iraq + 5 meeting 10/04/08
* Express strike Fridays from 11/04/08
 

¶March 2008
* Churnalism matters media freedom meeting
* Calling BBC freelances! demand representation
 

¶February 2008
* Citizen journalism Milton Keynes has strikes to 07/02/08
* Guildy as charged screenwriters' strike goes on
* Copyright stripped away? keeping identifiers
* Ac-cred-i-tate! Northcliffe's odd charge
* Lapdancer protects morals right to right credit, that is
* Calling BBC freelances! demand recognition
* Terror teach-in seminar on the Acts 19/02/08
* Subbing days course 11/03/08
* Harare help aid to Zimbabwe union
* The Trireme World's Fair
* LETTER Off the buses
 

¶January 2008
* Multimedia, NUJ, freelances convergence report
* Fees Guide updated more info now!
* Comment négocier? course handy for Europe 01/03/08
* Guardian warning archive demand
* BBC alert strike imminent?
* ALCS election vote by 04/01/08
* BBC petition sign it now
* The Gong Sweet & Maxwell (not the freelances to annoy)
* LETTER Shifting that rate
 

¶December 2007
* Paypal painless payment abroad?
* Quality meet 06/12/07
* Monitor policing more mixed mores
* Dutch treat rates agreement not a cartel
* BBC petition vexation without representation!
* What structure? to build a union
* Radio wave we support Mexican radio
* LETTER Collective action!
* LETTER Rewrite rejected
* Casual clarification some rights after two years
 

¶November 2007
* Great expectations of orphans what will become of authorless works?
* A Charter for freelances EFJ Charter of Freelance Rights
* Comment is frequently bad-tempered Guardian's Comment is Free blog
* Name, lens and number? problematic police
* No to Getty giveaway photographers resist
* Nobody expected beer Palestine camera debuts
* We want recognition at the BBC 05/11/07 meeting for BBC freelances
* Dublin do convergence conference 20/10/07
* LETTERS Infrequently thanked
* The first casualty of war? conference 17/11/07
* Trireme Award Bikesport News
 

¶October 2007 - online updates
* Tax time 30/09/07
 

¶September / October 2007
* Frequently Asked Questions updated advice/help
* Musos' managers' mania muted gig contracts update
* Who can you photograph? children? model releases?
* Victory protects sources Ackroyd wins at last
* Mixed Met message policing update
* Readier reckoner what're you worth?
* Trireme Award Johnston Press papers
* Objecting in Parliament Square? NUJ Day of Action 05/11/2007
 

¶August 2007
* Beware draconian libel laws challenge contracts and insure
* Copyright can make you money cheap course for members
* Consultations who owns the news & vulnerable workers
* Then and now... history meeting
 
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