Will the watchdog dare dismiss this impartiality case against Newsquest? | Roy Greenslade

The NUJ’s complaint has echoes of a 1975 case, and goes to the heart of arguments about press freedomJournalists often get upset about their bosses. It goes with the territory. What is unusual, however, is the decision by staff at the Cumberland News to make a formal complaint about their employer to the newspaper industry’s regulator, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso).Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) were incensed by the bias in an article, published in last week’s issue, about the one-day strike held today. It carried a statement by the management which lamented the action and argued its case. By contrast, the union was not given space to explain its reasons for walking out. Related: Facebook may finally face a reckoning as more grave misdeeds are revealed | Jill Abramson A couple of lines of quotation from the NUJ would have justified a claim to impartiality Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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