| # | Name | Comments |
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| 51 | Anonymous | |
| 52 | Anonymous | |
| 53 | Mark Currie | |
| 54 | Joan Macdonald | Continuing investment is a must to ensure quality reporting. |
| 55 | maurice platt | |
| 56 | June Hyslop | I agree wholeheartedly with the terms of the petition. |
| 57 | Solomon Teague | |
| 58 | James Silver | |
| 59 | Jessica Manu | |
| 60 | Anonymous | |
| 61 | Keith Hatch | |
| 62 | Paul Alexander Knox | |
| 63 | rosalie macrae | Let us bring back the days when we were all convinced we had the best job in the world. . And we looked forward to every new day whether we were on locals or nationals. |
| 64 | Sharon Williams | |
| 65 | Anonymous | |
| 66 | Karen Jouault | |
| 67 | Kate Webb | |
| 68 | Andrew Anderson | The lack of investment (particularly in staffing levels) in newspapers across the board needs tackling urgently.
Andrew Anderson, Doncaster Free Press. |
| 69 | Barbara Goulden Walters | Perhaps it is only older journalists who can now appreciate how far regional newspapers have slipped and on how much information people living in our cities and towns no longer receive. |
| 70 | Neil McGrory | |
| 71 | Chris Green | |
| 72 | Lara Pawson | As a former employee of the BBC World Service, who finally left in dismay at dropping standards, I would like emphasise the appalling truth that increasingly editorial decisions are made according to falling budgets. If something isn't free, the programmes don't use it. And increasingly, staff are prepared to tow the line, fearful as they appear to be of losing their increasingly meaningless jobs. It's an outrage. |
| 73 | Andrew Roden | |
| 74 | Stephen Wood | Professional journalism has never been under such pressure from corporate, police and government interests as they talk to the media through the weasel words of their PR departments. Sadly, profit-hungry media proprietors are happy to soak up this crap instead of training and paying professional editorial people to engage in proper research. Airtime on radio and TV is filled with ill-researched, repetitious and unchallenged cliche; while newspapers (national and local) are increasingly being written, subbed and designed by an army of children who think a degree in media studies is worth more than a sheet of Andrex. Write and produce a first-class newspaper or TV report and the world will read and listen. Keep on cost-cutting and we're all doomed. |
| 75 | Judy Gordon | Journalists these days are not against change where it improves, diversifies and expands the work we produce. But increasingly we are working with too-few staff and thus, too little time to do the job the way it should be done and the way our readers/watchers/listeners deserve. Commentators these days use the expression 'tipping point' rather too much, but that is where journalism is now - particularly in the regions. Editors and managements need to work with staff, not against them, to manage change properly and we ALL need to stop running down the worth of traditional media. There is no fat left to cut in staffing, we are now hacking at the muscle of staffing - next stop, the skeleton. Then we really are all finished. I want to see bosses and staff working as one for once to protect quality journalism, in whatever form it takes. |
| 76 | Anonymous | |
| 77 | Bryony Taylor | |
| 78 | Hannah Webster | |
| 79 | Hazel Southam | |
| 80 | Paul Wagland | |
| 81 | Judi John | |
| 82 | Ian Townsley | |
| 83 | James Trimble | This may be too little too late - these companies don't care about the quality of the newspapers they own and they don't care that we all know they don't care.
Here's something I learned from seven years at the CSA: Management can, and will, do anything they believe will make their company more successful - forget about staff, they are as dispensable as one-day contact lenses. |
| 84 | Amy Rich | |
| 85 | Anonymous | Freelance rates particularly need to be reviewed and raised regularly. |
| 86 | Allison Glossop | |
| 87 | David Forsythe | |
| 88 | Bob Norris | When I joined the NUJ in 1957 the average salary of a prvincial newspaper journalist was the same as a qualified teacher or a Police sergeant - nowadays a trainee constable or teacher is probably treated better. |
| 89 | Fay Winter | |
| 90 | paul hill | Layers of accountants, layers of management and too few hacks. |
| 91 | Stuart Brennan | |
| 92 | Anonymous | |
| 93 | Anonymous | |
| 94 | Sam McBride | |
| 95 | Rob Richley | |
| 96 | ISABELLE VIALLE | |
| 97 | Alixandra Fazzina | |
| 98 | Dominic Bailey | |
| 99 | Anonymous | Currently being paid £640 a month to "train" as a journo in an emap station... think that says it all. |
| 100 | David O'Sullivan | |