Alan Slingsby, who has died aged 76, was a journalist-philanthropist admired for putting his media skills at the service of the community. After training in the 1970s on the sub-editors’ desk at the Morning Star, he produced publications for trade unions, local groups and countless individuals.
One union journalist designated Alan “designer to the labour movement”. He worked for unions for students, teachers, firefighters and civil servants, for the TUC itself and naturally for the National Union of Journalists, from 1991 to 2009 as freelance production designer of the Journalist magazine.
