Karen Kay

journalist, broadcaster and owner of media training & comms coaching for business leaders, brand spokespeople, entrepreneurs and more.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Heating oil suppliers are using the war in Iran to rip off families in rural communities.

Ed Miliband needs to get a grip on price gouging by suppliers who are taking advantage of vulnerable families.

My letter to Ed Miliband👇🏾

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on.

In the House of Lords today, a government minister refused to rule this out.

To be clear, this would amount to legalising theft. It would fly in the face of public opinion on what is fair, and would mean a surrender of British creatives' work by this Labour government. It would mean the lobbying by big US tech firms had succeeded, and the protests of the UK's creatives had been ignored.

People's work is not the government's to give away.

If you're in the UK and you care about creatives and the creative industries, please write to your MP!

[Karen Kay @kkwordsmith]

@englandcricket Congratulations @isaguha well deserved 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🏏🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[Karen Kay @kkwordsmith]

@SaraThornton1 @TfL @chilternrailway Had the same thing heading back from a gig in Camden on Monday night. It’s the handling of it that makes it so much worse. As you say, no communication/ announcement / info on app. 😡

[NUJ @NUJofficial]

Freelance journalists, tomorrow (23 Oct) is the deadline to tell the government how major news organisations’ bad business practices are affecting you.

This explains why it matters, how to have your say, and includes our submission for inspiration:

https://t.co/EQQlnn2SYp

[NUJ @NUJofficial]

Tim Dawson, NUJ freelance organiser, said: “Members often tell me they have not been paid for a year, or are not paid at all for significant work that is commissioned but not used. This consultation provides a golden opportunity for freelances to raise these kinds of issues.”

[ExcludedUK Official @ExcludedUK]

MASSIVE NEWS!!!!

#ExcludedUK are absolutely delighted to announce that we have been asked to contribute to an impact video, to be played at the Covid Inquiry at the start of the Module 9 Economic Response hearings.

This is huge for our members and the other 3.8 million excluded UK taxpayers who were left without fair and equal Covid-19 Financial Support, some received zero!

40+ suicides later and complete financial devastation for too many, the pandemic is still not over for us!

This is an amazing opportunity to get our stories heard by a wider audience... and hopefully, with the help of our 'Gaps in Covid-19 Financial Support' APPG, once step closer to righting the wrongs of the pandemic.

This is will obviously not bring back those who we have lost along this fight, but hopefully will bring comfort to the loved ones of those who felt no other way out.

DID YOU GET LITTLE OR NO FINANCIAL SUPPORT DURING COVID?
Were you excluded from fair and equal Covid-19 financial support?
If so, join some of the other 3.8 million UK taxpayers who were, as we campaign for this scandal to be put right: https://t.co/1GoANVaqj9

Dutifully paid in, deliberately left out!

Lives & livelihoods ruined!

40+ suicides and hundreds of attempted suicides!

Website: https://t.co/0yvKedEu5A

Facebook Group: https://t.co/1GoANVaqj9

Sign up to our mailing list: https://t.co/zgpsggbnGK

Justgiving donations link: https://t.co/Xr67lcHxzw

Easyfundraising link: https://t.co/RwCdMByG0g

There are over 20 categories of exclusions including:
·New starters
·New Businesses
·PAYE freelancers
·Newly self-employed
·Those denied furlough
·Directors paid in Dividends
·Directors paid PAYE Annually
·Made redundant before 19 Mar 2020
·Directors of Companies not in Profit
·Self-employed with +£50k trading profits
·Businesses ineligible for Business Grants
·Those in maternity/parental/adoption leave
·Those earning less than 50% income from self-employment
·Those whose personal circumstances have affected entitlement to support e.g. pensions, bereavement allowance, carer’s allowance, students, armed forces veterans… and more…

ExcludedUK are asking for:
(1) An apology from government so this injustice is recognised and assurance that it will never happen again.
(2) Parity of support
(3) Acknowledgement of loss of earnings/profit and consequential loss.

[Karen Kay @kkwordsmith]

@themediamentor @GiveBloodNHS Couldn’t agree more. Love the fact we get to see where our donations go. Such a vital service -get involved #giveblood

[Karen Kay @kkwordsmith]

@ObsNewReview @carolecadwalla Be proud. So sad to see the UK’s oldest paper dismantled and another bastion of our once-great press lose so many great journalists.

[Miranda Dickinson🌟 @wurdsmyth]

Meta stole EVERY BOOK I’ve written to feed their Llama AI program.

I’m joining with @Soc_of_Authors today to demand #Meta pays for the work it stole. I call on the UK Government @SoniaKumarMP @UKParliament to support authors and uphold copyright. Please share!

#MetaBookThieves

[Karen Kay @kkwordsmith]

@themediamentor There are others who ran with it too. Hearing from colleagues it might have originated from a respected news agency… possibly AI issues? All a sad indictment of the lack of experience / fact-checking etc

[ExcludedUK Official @ExcludedUK]

DID YOU GET LITTLE OR NO FINANCIAL SUPPORT DURING COVID?
Were you excluded from fair and equal Covid-19 financial support?
If so, join some of the other 3.8 million UK taxpayers who were, as we campaign for this scandal to be put right.. https://t.co/1GoANVaqj9

Dutifully paid in, deliberately left out!

Lives & livelihoods ruined!

37+ suicides and hundreds of attempted suicides!

Website: https://t.co/0yvKedEu5A

Facebook Group: https://t.co/1GoANVaqj9

Sign our petition https://t.co/QhI4mf3rhU

Sign up to our mailing list: https://t.co/zgpsggbnGK

There are over 20 categories of exclusions including:
·New starters
·New Businesses
·PAYE freelancers
·Newly self-employed
·Those denied furlough
·Directors paid in Dividends
·Directors paid PAYE Annually
·Made redundant before 19 Mar 2020
·Directors of Companies not in Profit
·Self-employed with +£50k trading profits
·Businesses ineligible for Business Grants
·Those in maternity/parental/adoption leave
·Those earning less than 50% income from self-employment
·Those whose personal circumstances have affected entitlement to support e.g. pensions, bereavement allowance, carer’s allowance, students, armed forces veterans… and more…

ExcludedUK are asking for:
(1) An apology from government so this injustice is recognised and assurance that it will never happen again.
(2) Parity of support
(3) Acknowledgement of loss of earnings/profit and consequential loss.
#ExcludedUK

[Karen Kay @kkwordsmith]

@CGSBucks @CGSSport 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Greg Smith MP @gregsmith_uk]

Hideous scenes in the White House. We must continue to stand with Ukraine in their fight to defeat Putin and get their country and freedom back. There is no other serious path.

[James Mitchinson @JayMitchinson]

If we’re not careful, all of the information available to us will be the thoughts of tech-bro billionaires force-fed to us all by their machines.

#makeitfair

[NUJ London Freelance @NUJ_LFB]

🤖AI & Copyright - last chance to respond to the consultation on proposed changes to copyright law. Closes 25 Feb.

Here are our notes attempting to decipher the "consultationese" language to help you respond.

Please share with freelance friends.

https://t.co/HFV4gTtSHG

[Karen Kay @kkwordsmith]

@LebbyE @charlie_crispy @SaraThornton1 @hellomag @nesky999 @JoyPersaud This one made me chuckle - though it is almost certainly a genuine typo (but… subs?!) rather than ignorance. I really fancy a Van Cleef & Arpels pedant necklace. Maybe we could get sponsored by them as Hacks with Standards….?

[Karen Kay @kkwordsmith]

@gregsmith_uk

[ExcludedUK Official @ExcludedUK]

CALLING ALL MPs

IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY, PLEASE JOIN OUR APPG ASAP

To join our APPG, please email [email protected]

Your #ExcludedUK constituents look forward to seeing you join.

DID YOU GET LITTLE OR NO FINANCIAL SUPPORT DURING COVID?
Were you excluded from fair and equal Covid-19 financial support?
If so, join some of the other 3.8 million UK taxpayers who were, as we campaign for this scandal to be put right.. https://t.co/1GoANVaqj9

Dutifully paid in, deliberately left out!

Lives & livelihoods ruined!

37+ suicides and hundreds of attempted suicides!

Website: https://t.co/0yvKedEu5A

Facebook Group: https://t.co/1GoANVaqj9

Sign up to our mailing list: https://t.co/zgpsggbnGK

There are over 20 categories of exclusions including:
·New starters
·New Businesses
·PAYE freelancers
·Newly self-employed
·Those denied furlough
·Directors paid in Dividends
·Directors paid PAYE Annually
·Made redundant before 19 Mar 2020
·Directors of Companies not in Profit
·Self-employed with +£50k trading profits
·Businesses ineligible for Business Grants
·Those in maternity/parental/adoption leave
·Those earning less than 50% income from self-employment
·Those whose personal circumstances have affected entitlement to support e.g. pensions, bereavement allowance, carer’s allowance, students, armed forces veterans… and more…

ExcludedUK are asking for:
(1) An apology from government so this injustice is recognised and assurance that it will never happen again.
(2) Parity of support
(3) Acknowledgement of loss of earnings/profit and consequential loss.
#ExcludedUK

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[Karen Kay @kkwordsmith]

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[ExcludedUK Official @ExcludedUK]

EXCLUDEDUK APPG RE-LAUNCH INVITATION TO ALL LORDS AND MPS

There is new APPG being set up for those excluded from Covid financial support. You have been sent an invitation via email by
MP Steve Witherden who is chairing the IGM on Tuesday 14 January between 3-4pm, please RSVP to [email protected] ASAP
If you are unable to make it to the IGM, you can still be part of the APPG by emailing [email protected] to register your interest.

Will you be registering?

Your excluded constituents will be looking forward to seeing you attend....

DID YOU GET LITTLE OR NO FINANCIAL SUPPORT DURING COVID?

Were you excluded from fair and equal Covid-19 financial support?
If so, join some of the other 3.8 million UK taxpayers who were, as we campaign for this scandal to be put right.. https://t.co/1GoANVaY8H
Dutifully paid in, deliberately left out!

Lives & livelihoods ruined!

37+ suicides and hundreds of attempted suicides!

Website: https://t.co/0yvKedF1V8

Facebook Group: https://t.co/1GoANVaY8H

Sign up to our mailing list: https://t.co/zgpsggbVwi

There are over 20 categories of exclusions including:

·New starters
·New Businesses
·PAYE freelancers
·Newly self-employed
·Those denied furlough
·Directors paid in Dividends
·Directors paid PAYE Annually
·Made redundant before 19 Mar 2020
·Directors of Companies not in Profit
·Self-employed with +£50k trading profits
·Businesses ineligible for Business Grants
·Those in maternity/parental/adoption leave
·Those earning less than 50% income from self-employment
·Those whose personal circumstances have affected entitlement to support e.g. pensions, bereavement allowance, carer’s allowance, students, armed forces veterans… and more…
ExcludedUK are asking for:
(1) An apology from government so this injustice is recognised and assurance that it will never happen again.
(2) Parity of support
(3) Acknowledgement of loss of earnings/profit and consequential loss.

#ExcludedUK

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