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Ian Blackburn @ion65.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Thoughtful and funny. I can see why he gets paid to write four jokes every two weeks now. @savetheobs.bsky.social #StewartLee youtu.be/PFLim2CRDyI?...

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Stewart Lee on The Observer picket line

YouTube video by Peeps

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

And this (viz a viz Times piece) is what actually was voted through.. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

@fletcherr.bsky.social Times biz desk report on recent developments in Guardian dispute with its NUJ chapel is completely inaccurate. Could you look into it please?

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

@lukebailey.bsky.social @eleanormia.bsky.social please can you raise with your comment ed.. you are the only two I paper journos easy to find on bsky. Thanks!

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Further to last post… what was actually voted on this week

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

No definitely don’t expect support. Just asking for accurate reporting

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

While we’re at it, the I paper is also leaving standards at the door. The writer of this comment piece fails to declare that (a) James Harding gave her job as editor of the Today programme and (b) her husband is partner at Brunswick PR - a biz partner of Tortoise Media. 🙄 inews.co.uk/opinion/obse...

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The Observer sale is good news - time to embrace the future

Journalists are bad at change, and mostly terrible at business

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I am amazed the Times would publish something like this. Have they dispensed with fact checkers/subs? Did the reporter miss the bit on the training course where you learn to invite comment from / check the story out with people on both sides? Is it ok to just paste in a quote from a PR and be done?

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Wow. This article claiming journalists ‘voted through the sale of the Observer’ is completely inaccurate. Simply untrue. The journalists voted for a mitigation package giving better terms. The deal was signed before Christmas against the wishes of G&O journalists.🧵 www.thetimes.com/article/0108...

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Guardian journalists vote for sale of Observer to Tortoise Media

Members of the National Union of Journalists back deal to sell Sunday newspaper after management concessions

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Spot the difference… (Guardian vs FT)

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse… 😔

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Richard Hassall PhD @rhassall.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Don't have a regular subscription to The Guardian, but I've just cancelled my monthly direct debit to it which I'd set up to support it. @theguardian.com I will not reinstate it until I hear that the Scott Trust has scrapped its crazy and unnecessary sale of The Observer. @savetheobs.bsky.social

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

4/ I’m a lifelong Guardian and Observer reader and I think a full refund is the least you can do having seemingly abandoned CP Scott’s mission to uphold UK liberal journalism and behave with integrity.

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

3/ I would like to cancel my subscription and I also request the money I’ve handed over to date be refunded. I’m outraged by the behaviour of GNM’s management and feel I have been persuaded to donate funds by false promises.

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

2/ I have been reading and watching reports of the Guardian’s sale of the historic Observer to a loss making digital startup - despite having £1.3bn in the bank that the Scott Trust chooses not to invest in the title - with dismay.

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Wow! Obs friend just told me that they are getting reports of furious readers not just cancelling subscriptions but also demanding a refund for their supporter donations - and at least one has received a near-full refund! This is the letter one sent 🤯🔥 🧵

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

URGENT: the strikes have made a breakthrough: "..as MPs table early day motion." Politicians express “serious concerns” about Observer sale This could and should be a significant turning point, and they should be cheering down on the picket line. Gov petition next? www.nuj.org.uk/resource/day...

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Billy Bragg sings at third day of Guardian & Observer strike as MPs table early day motion

Politicians express “serious concerns” about Observer sale

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Guardian NUJ @gonuj.org · 11/12/2024

👀 Memo to the Scott Trust: “We are often told how much our support is appreciated. It would be nice if someone rewarded our support by asking our opinion on the plan to sell off the Observer.” Our readers would like a word. #savetheobserver 🙏🏻 www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

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Readers’ views on plans to sell the Observer | Letters

Letters: Harriet Monkhouse, Alison Chapman and Terry Walton on Guardian Media Group’s proposed sale of the Sunday paper to Tortoise Media

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Fury has not subsided at the Graun, then…⬇️

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Oh, and ANOTHER one… it really is impossible to find anyone except Scott Trust / GMG board members and Tortoise media bosses who think this is a good idea 🤔

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

And another stinging letter, this one from the esteemed foreign correspondents and editors of the Guardian ⬇️⬇️

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Guardian NUJ @gonuj.org · 09/12/2024

Thanks for your coverage, @thenewsagents.com

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NUJ London Freelance @nujlfb.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Guardian & Observer NUJ branch statement on the sale of the Observer to @tortoisemedia.bsky.social. And from Tim Gopsil, LFB Chair. @gonuj.org @savetheobs.bsky.social #savetheobserver ♻️Next strike is 12-13 Dec. www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2412gmg.h...

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Guardian and Observer NUJ branch statement - the struggle continues | The Freelance

Strike 12 & 13 December

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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Proud to sign this letter with so many Guardian and Observer colleagues, from reporters to production editors to some of the UK’s most popular columnists. Will the Scott Trust stop and reflect on the fact it’s lost the confidence of its journalists?

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Hahaha. Very good point about ‘bespoke’. 😂

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I think the NUJ are advising people to write to guardian.readers@theguardian.com and copy to guardian.letters@theguardian.com

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Just catching up on yesterday’s news about the Tortoise takeover of the Obs being signed. Pravda here has got a very balanced report packed with strike action background and views of journalists… www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

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Sale of the Observer to Tortoise Media agreed in principle

Scott Trust will become a key shareholder and take a seat on both the editorial and commercial boards of the company

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Write to the Guardian to complain - and cancel your subscription 💪

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Sounds like a fun meeting… absolutely incredible that Guardian management signed a deal that 93% of their staff were striking against WHILE they were on strike Proper totalitarian behaviour their from our favourite liberal news org 😂

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Everyone who has stood on that picket line today and yesterday has stood for more than just The Observer. They have stood for a free and fair press: something which is being diminished all over the world. I acknowledge, admire and honour each and every person who has been there. Thank you.

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

New thread of US press coverage - let me know if you spot anymore 🙏

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

😱🔥 on the Daily Beast www.thedailybeast.com/blood-in-the...

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

My friends / former colleagues at the Obs point out that the US press is waking up to the Guardian crisis over the ill judged plan to offload the title. Will 🧵 them here… NYT first. The boss!

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Guardian NUJ @gonuj.org · 05/12/2024

So much coverage from yesterday’s immense first day of strike action. The first Guardian strike in over 50 years! Here’s Sky News (in two parts) ⬇️🧵 See you soon for day two!

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