NUJ highlights growing number of far-right attacks on journalists

Union says police need to do more to counter ‘surge in violent extremism against journalists and media workers’. Journalists and camera crews are coming under attack on “an increased basis” from far-right activists, and police need to take a strategic approach to dealing with the growing problem, according to the head of the National Union of Journalists. The union’s general secretary, Michelle Stanistreet, called on law enforcement agencies to do more to tackle wha