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The NUJ's Michelle Stanistreet
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MICHELLE STANISTREET is stepping down as leader of the National Union of Journalists, a role she has held since 2011.
It’s been, as she frankly acknowledges, “an extremely challenging time” for the industry.
As soon as she was in post evidence that Rupert Murdoch title News of the World had hacked the phones of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler spurred a national conversation about media ethics — and the corrupting influence of ownership by a handful of plutocratic press barons, concerns that led to the Leveson Inquiry.
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