Is union paper Tribune being folded?
A diary column in yesterday’s Evening Standard hinted that the union magazine Tribune may be folded.
The diary piece said:
…there are dark rumours of a plot by shadowy figures in Tribune’s largest shareholder, Unite, to merge – or effectively close down Tribune – by making it part of an in-house union magazine.
“That would be an ignominious end to Tribune, and the fact that the magazine’s merger is being plotted by a prominent Communist, rubs salt in the wounds,” says an observer with long ties to the magazine. “Tribune has always been healthily anti-Communist. Also if the unions can’t even manage a relatively successful small magazine, what the hell can they run?”
More will be revealed after the annual Trade Union Congress this week.
The TUC are the main shareholders in the magazine.
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Very sad it true. Its editor Chris McLaughlin is a top bloke who has done wonders with the previously dowdy mag.
Rumours of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. We’re still around.
Yes, what Oli said. It’s not dead yet. My interest in it, is, or has been, in helping to carry on a long tradition of cartooning, or visual journalism. Most of the great visual creatives of the post war period have done time at Tribune (Low, Searle, Bell, Cummings etc etc) not to mention George Orwell and many other interesting thinkers. If you’ll excuse the comment ‘spam’, here are some links.
About the magazine – the line about independent is important
http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/about/
The magazine web site
http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/
A cartoon blog featuring Martin Rowson, John Jensen, Alex Hughes and me.
http://tribunecartoons.blogspot.com/
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