by holdthefrontpage staff
Just 16 per cent of media workers claim to be content in their work.
The survey, run by the Trades Union Congress, found hairdressers the most content at work, with 40 per cent being "happy", and the clergy coming second. Media folk came in 13th.
The new media manager for shopworkers' trade union USDAW is north-west journalist and broadcaster Paul Clark, (39).
He has worked in the newspaper industry and also for the TV programme Tonight with Trevor McDonald.
More than 10,000 Burton Mail readers signed a petition in protest at the planned scrapping of a pensioners' bus pass system.
The paper led the fight against proposals in East Staffordshire, and a compromise overhaul of the system has been brought in, which includes a charge of 10p per journey.
The European Newspaper Publishers' Association will visit London in April.
The Newspaper Society is arranging a seminar with the Association on editorial and advertising self-regulation with contributions from Lord Borrie, Sir Christopher Meyer and the European Commission. The Society will also host a dinner for the visitors.
A group of Glasgow volunteers is celebrating 25 years of delivering the Eastwood Extra to the blind.
They meet fortnightly to record news from the Archant-published paper and put it on tape.