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Avoid the misnomer ‘fake news’
With trust in Irish media dropping to an all-time low of 29 percent, reputation is an asset, to be tended to as advertising declines.
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(2010) The king of Irish investigative journalists, Paul Williams, will join forces with the Irish News of The World on March 10 [2010] as its crime editor. The clamorous controversy about his departure from the Sunday World is indicative of how he has become the indisputable media godfather of crime reporting. But does “the journalist […]
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In 2001 Irish Times reporter Carol Coulter wrote a short article outlining allegations of abuse affecting Smyly’s Church of Ireland Children’s Home. The report referred to preparation of a report by the health board. What the report said and indeed whether it was written were never reported. The paper did not investigate further. On 16 […]
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Staring at the Sun
What Type of News and Information Society do we Need?
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Own, and be attractive
Lessons from 2016 for moribund old media
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In which Denis gets himself sued
Perhaps the strangest event on the Irish media landscape last month was prompted by Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan’s publication of a report into media ownership in Ireland, commissioned by the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) grouping in the European Parliament. The report itself – by Belfast solicitors Gavin Booth and Darragh Mackin of […]
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In which Denis gets himself sued
Our hero attacks evil in the world but gets little thanks, except in the organs he part-owns (but doesn’t necessarily control)
