This is a manual for journalists in Europe, on authors’ rights. Authors’ rights laws provide the legal foundation for charging money for journalists’ work – as the law of ownership of physical property is the foundation for the business of a shoe-maker or a pin-factory. In other words, authors’ rights are in economic theory what gives journalists’ essentially non-physical product, words and pictures, value in the market. Labour rights laws intervene to give journalists the right to be paid for their time and first use of their work. Read in English or French  

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Elected members of the Labour Rights Expert Group (LAREG) in 2014 are Chair     Philippe Leruth     Renate Gensch     Rainer Reichert     Yannis Kotsifos     Seamus Dooley     Franco Siddi     Marta Barcenilla     Nathalie Weber     Michelle Stanistreet  

In 2012 the EFJ and EURO-MEI carried out a joint project on mapping changes in employment in the media and journalism industry. The project assessed the impact of employment changes on the media and journalism industry on journalists and media workers. It analyzed the employment changes and illustrated how these changes impact on trade union representation and organizing. The survey focuses on two case studies, France and the U.K, but also takes into consideration other countries. Please click HERE to read the final report. The EFJ is the European group of the International Federation of Journalists The EFJ represents over 260,000…

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Click HERE to read the English version of the Gender equality best practices handbook.

Click HERE to read the IFJ report on Getting the facts right: Reporting ethnicity and religion.

UNION OF SLOVENIAN JOURNALISTS SINDIKAT NOVINARJEV SLOVENIJE (SNS) Address Vošnjakova 8 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia Staff Alenka Potočnik (President) Mojca Zabukovec (General Secretary) Marija Penca (Secretary) Phone +386 1 426 0366 Email info@sindikat-novinarjev.si glavni.tajnik@sindikat-novinarjev.si sns@siol.net Website Twitter http://www.sindikat-novinarjev.si/ @novinarSI SLOVENIAN ASSOCIATION OF JOURNALISTS DRUŠTVO NOVINARJEV SLOVENIJE Address Vošnjakova 8/VII 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia Staff Gašper Andrinek (President) – gasper.andrinek@rtvslo.si Spela Stare (General Secretary) – generalni@novinar.com Phone +386 1 426 03 63 Email pisarna@novinar.com Website www.novinar.com

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POLISH JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION – SDP Address ul. Foksal 3/5 00-366 Warszawa Poland Staff Krzysztof Skowroński (President) Hubert Bekrycht (General secretary) Mariusz Pilis (Vice-President) Jolanta Hajdasz (Vice-President) Phone +48 22 827 8720 Email sdp@sdp.pl Website Twitter sdp.pl @SDPportal JOURNALISTS’ ASSOCIATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND – SDRP (SUSPENDED in April 2024) Address ul. Foksal 3/5 00-366 Warszawa Poland Staff Jerzy Domański (President) Sławomir Pietrzyk (Vice President) Andrzej Maślankiewicz (General Secretary) Tomasz Miłkowski (International Affairs Secretary) Ireneusz Hyra (Treasurer) Phone +48 22 827 87 15 E-mail info@dziennikarzerp.org.pl redakcja@dziennikarzerp.org.pl Contact Person zg.sdrp@poczta.internetdsl.pl Website http://dziennikarzerp.org.pl/   SOCIETY OF JOURNALISTS – TD Address Lewicka 14/34…

    NORWEGIAN UNION OF JOURNALISTS Address Brugata 19 PB 9001, Grønland 0133 Oslo Staff  Dag Idar Tryggestad (President) – dag.idar.tryggestad@nj.no / +47 970 70 937 Hege Fagerheim (Vice President) – hege.fagerheim@nj.no / +47 408 28 004 August Ringvold (AREG contact) – august@nj.no / +47 906 03 778 Oddrun Midtbø (FREG contact) – oddrunmidtbo@gmail.com Rolf Johansen (BREG contact) – rolf.johansen@nrk.no / +47 340 16 13 Eva Stabell (International officer) – eva@nj.no / +47 906 02 022 Phone +47 22 20 11 10 Email nj@nj.no Website Twitter www.nj.no @Journalistlag

NEDERLANDSE VERENIGING VAN JOURNALISTEN (NVJ) Address Joh. Vermeerstr. 22, Postbus 75997 NL-1070 AZ Amsterdam The Netherlands Staff Huub Elzerman (President of NVJ Committee) Thomas Bruning (General Secretary) Phone +31 20 303 97 00 Email vereniging@nvj.nl Contact Persons Thomas Bruning – tbruning@nvj.nl Jan Douwe Keulen – jd.keulen@gmail.com Website Twitter http://www.nvj.nl/ @nvj

  TRADE UNION OF MEDIA OF MONTENEGRO (SMCG) Address Ulica Njegoseva 7/2, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro President Radomir Krackovic – rajok_pg@yahoo.com and sindikatmedija@usscg.me Phone +382 20 232 315 / +382 287 8021 Email sindikatmedija@usscg.me Website Twitter http://www.sindikatmedija.me @sindikatmedija  

ASSOCIATION OF JOURNALISTS OF MACEDONIA (ZNM) Address Gradski Zid, blok 13 1000 Skopje North Macedonia President Mladen Chadikovski Phone +389 (0)2 3298 139 Email contact@znm.org.mk Contact Person Dragan Sekulovski – dsekulovski@znm.org.mk Website http://www.znm.org.mk TRADE UNION OF MACEDONIAN JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA WORKERS (SSNM) Address Blvd. Kliment Ohridski 58 b 2/3 1000 Skopje North Macedonia President Contact person Pavle Belovski (President) Darko Duridanski (Project Manager) – darkoduridanski@gmail.com Phone +389 77 723 574 / +389 2 2671 201 Email ssnm.info@gmail.com Website Twitter Facebook Instagram https://ssnm.org.mk/vesti @SSNM_info https://www.facebook.com/Sindikatnanovinari @ssnm.info  

ASSOCIATION LUXEMBOURGEOISE DES JOURNALISTES PROFESSIONNELS (ALJP) Address 52, avenue de la Gare, L-1610 Luxembourg Staff Sidney Wiltgen (President) – swiltgen@tageblatt.lu Luc Caregari (Vice-President) – luc.caregari@reporter.lu, luccaregari@gmail.com Sandra Schmit (Vice-Président) Rosa Clemente (General Secretary) Roger Infalt (Honorary Treasurer) – rinfalt@pt.lu Phone +352 691 161 525 / + 352 22 23 11 Email info@journalist.lu Website Twitter www.journalist.lu @AljpLuxemb

  LATVIA UNION OF JOURNALISTS Address Kr. Valdemāra iela 118-211, 1013 Riga President Juris Paiders – jpaiders@inbox.lv Phone +371 292 06 974 / +371 672 11 433 Website http://www.zurnalistusavieniba.lv LATVIA ASSOCIATION OF JOURNALISTS (Latvijas Žurnālistu asociācija) Address Strēlnieku iela 4 Rīga, LV – 1010 Phone +371 294 03 080 Email zurnalisti.nvo@gmail.com Contact Person Anastasija Tetarenko-Supe (Chair) zurnaleti.nvo@gmail.com Website  www.latvijaszurnalisti.lv Twitter @zurnalistilv