Tag: media
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Ireland’s online media market: Sophisticated but will not pay
An edited version of this article appeared in Village magazine, July 2015 edition The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2015 for Ireland gives an effective overview of who learns what where for the country, or at least who the major players are. In summing up itself, the report describes Ireland as “a broadly engaged audience…
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Never read the comments
An edited version of this article appeared in Village magazine, July 2015 edition Never read the comments. It’s one of the first pieces of advice journalists share about their online work, and perhaps an adage that someone ought to have passed to Labour senator Lorraine Higgins. Higgins is the sponsor of one of two private…
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DABbling unpaid: RTÉ’s digital labour problem
An edited version of this article appears in Village magazine, June 2015 edition Trade unions within RTE are planning to challenge the broadcaster’s practice of using unpaid labour to keep its digital audio broadcasting (DAB) digital channels in operation, it has emerged. Radio communications manager Maureen Catterson confirmed that 44 volunteers are currently rostered to…
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Siteserv: media review
An edited version of this article appeared in Village magazine, May 2015 edition It’s not exactly scientific, but sometimes there are insights to be gained into Siteserv coverage from a survey of newspaper front pages. On Sunday 26 April, five days after Catherine Murphy TD revealed the answers to Freedom of Information requests at an…
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Radio is for old people
An edited version of this article appeared in Village magazine, May 2015 edition The internet is coming, and it’s eating radio audiences. Newspapers have grown used to the idea that they face an existential threat from the digital world – even if they haven’t quite figured out what to do about it – but for…
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The Editors’ Account: Unthinking self-apologists
An edited version of this article appeared in Village magazine, April 2015 edition If one thing was apparent from the parade of senior newspaper executives and editors before the Oireachtas banking inquiry and the subsequent opinion pieces, it is that newspaperfolk are far less upset at missing the bubble that at the idea that they…
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MoJo on the go
An edited version of this article appeared in Village magazine, April 2015 edition Gerard Cunningham reflects on the hype at the MoJo Convention – the world’s first – held in Dublin at the end of March. At one point during his workshop at MoJoCon, the mobile journalism conference organised by RTÉ in late March, BBC…
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Broadly speaking: Irish newspaper futures in 2015
Irish and Sunday Times seek quality behind paywall Independent Group goes for cost cuts and integration An edited version of this article appeared in Village magazine, February 2015 edition Ireland’s slow motion media retreat from the open internet is set to accelerate in 2015, as the Irish Times rolls out its much talked about subscription…
