NUJ protests over INN job losses

THE National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has asked the rights commissioner to investigate its claim that workers at Independent New Network (INN) were made redundant illegally.

The board of INN is seeking to close down the network news service on October 30 and is already looking at tenders from six different consortia to provide a temporary news service for the 18 local stations affected by INN’s closure.

Yesterday, journalists representing national and regional media organisations gathered in Dublin for a lunchtime rally in support of 17 INN journalists who are threatened with redundancy.