NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear joined the picket line at the Milton Keynes Citizen as staff went on strike today.
He joined national organiser Barry Fitzpatrick and NUJ president Michelle Stanistreet outside the Johnston Press paper this morning.
Dear quotes Richard Brennan, a journalism student doing work experience with the union, who gives a personal account of his first strike.
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