Deborah Collins was born in 1957 in Cornwall. She worked on the student newspaper as a student at the University of York, and then did a radio journalism course at Falmouth College. She worked at a local paper in Cheltenham whilst gaining her NCTJ proficiency, before moving to the Southern Evening Echo in Southampton as television editor. From there she moved to London, where she worked for the short-lived News on Sunday, before moving to Today, then What's on TV, which underwent some changes of proprietor, eventually being owned by Time Inc.

She was an NUJ member from her first job in 1980 until she left Time, Inc in2017. Deborah talks about her time in the NUJ at local newspapers, and at Wapping, about union organisation in local and national newspapers, pay disputes and strikes, and the developments in the newspaper industry. She also discusses changing technology, including the move from hot metal to direct computer typesetting.

In this audio clip she describes the analogue age of the print industry.

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Title	Collins, Deborah
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Production Date	2019
Format	Photograph
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Holding Institution	TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University
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