What you can do

Organise a meeting with your local MP/councillors/ community groups to explain the impact of cuts in your local media. Let us know the details. We can supply speakers as part of the national tour.

Order copies of the national petition. Circulate them to local community groups/trade unions and others.

Order copies of the national briefing pack giving facts and figures about the impact of the cuts. Use the pack to write to MPs, councillors and others putting the union’s case.

Order copies of the national leaflet - or better still produce a tailored one - and organise a branch activity in the town/city center.

Organise a public meeting to explain to readers, listeners, viewers the impact of the cuts. Invite the editor/managing editor to a meeting to explain the cuts

Ask members of the public to:
• Write to their local paper expressing concern about the above issues and asking for greater investment in quality journalism and professional journalists.
• Send our petition postcard - Quality Journalism, You’ll miss it when it’s gone - to their MP asking for a Parliamentary Select Committee investigation into monopoly control and profiteering at the expense of local democracy. Please send us any responses to the post card that you receive from your MP. This will help us to build up a database of supporters in parliament.
• Get your branch to organise a protest/lobby at an event sponsored/organised by any company carrying out cuts in your area.
• Try to get other local media interested in the campaign. Seek opportunities to raise the issue through letters/phone-ins etc.
• Get local celebrities/MPs/Councillors to make statements in support of the campaign.
• Check if you local MP has signed the Journalism Matters EDM yet by visiting: http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/Search.aspx
(type in EDM number 284 to view the relevant motion). If they have not signed it, use the link below to send a email to your MP and ask them to.
http://www.writetothem.com/