Applications for reporter position due in 25 July, for production & communication assistant position 8 August

COMMONSPACE is hiring two members of staff to our team in Glasgow.

Position 1: Production & Communications assistant

CommonSpace is looking for a skilled and creative production & communications assistant to make our output more accessible and engaging to a wider audience, especially by utilising audiovisual methods.

Details of the role:

£8.75 an hour

CommonSpace's week on 50 years since May '68 culminated in a forum on Thursday 3 May, posing the question 'Is the Left still revolutionary?'

COMMONSPACE held a forum in Glasgow last night [3 May] exploring 50 years since May '68, culminating our special week of coverage on the subject.

Panellists for the event were former SNP MP and Glasgow University student in 1968, George Kerevan, Paris May '68er Margaret Ferguson, anti-racist campaigner and trade unionist Mélina Valdelièvre, and CommonSpace columnist David Jamieson.

CommonSpace editor Ben Wray introduces a special week of coverage starting on Monday 30 April on half a century since May ‘68 – and how you can get involved in it

IN THE week beginning 30 April, CommonSpace will be running a special week of coverage on 50 years since May ’68, the revolt in Paris which became the symbol for a year of movements and uprisings across the globe, which sought to create a new world based on a radical new egalitarianism and a universal notion of political, economic, cultural and sexual liberation.

New stats have revealed the value of UK labour has fallen behind the Euro average for the first time 

THE Common Weal think-tank has said the UK Government is failing in its duty to ensure the economy works to the benefit of the people after new statistics revealed that the cost of labour per hour has fallen below the EU average.

Ben Wray has been appointed as new editor of CommonSpace. In this introductory article, he introduces his approach to news.

HI, I’m Ben Wray the new editor of CommonSpace. I wanted to introduce myself by saying a bit about my approach to news and to CommonSpace in particular.

CommonSpace is biased. We shouldn’t just be willing to admit this, we should embrace it and define it.

We need a productive approach to online discourse - and that means recognising when things aren't working

WHEN CommonSpace launched nearly three and half years ago, there were some basic things news websites tend to have that we built into it, like the comments section below articles.

New CommonSpace reporter Chris McQuade turned down a mainstream media job to come to CommonSpace. Here he explains why

HELLO,

Being part of the CommonSpace team has been the most exciting opportunity I have had since becoming a journalist just over one year ago.

Let me tell you why. Everyone knows that media is changing and, as we move further into the digital age, it is essential that journalism is prepared to reinvigorate how it is received to continue to challenge people in power throughout society.

Having just joined CommonSpace as our new parliamentary reporter, Sean Bell explains a bit more about himself

"Take Hitler and stick him on the funny page ... No, no, leave the rooster story alone - that's human interest." - Cary Grant, His Girl Friday (1940)