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    Skewed Irish Times asylum coverage

    The received narrative in a democracy is that there is an inherent adversarial relationship between politicians and civil servants on one side and journalists on the other. The job of the diligent journalist is to pursue transparency by scrutinising policy; they should hold government to account through critical engagement in order to arrive at the […]

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    A little misleading.

    By Gerard Cunningham One statistic itself betrays the problem with the readership statistics collected by Newsbrands Ireland (formerly National Newspapers of Ireland) in the most recent survey of Irish newspaper readers. Ten percent. That’s how much Irish Times readership is reported to have increased in the year to June 2015. The survey, carried out by […]

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    Times tables.

    By Gerard Cunningham For internet companies, UX is an integral part of the product. Done well, it’s invisible. The interplay of icons, taps and swiping actions on a smartphone screen. Point and click have been desktop metaphors on computers since the 1984 Macintosh introduced the world to graphical screens. Amazon one-click purchase is the exemplar. […]

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    A little misleading

    All titles show falls in readership, but distort them, getting away with it because of increasing online readership, declining daily readers and faulty memories. By Gerard Cunningham

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    RTÉ refuses Village O’ Brien ad

    Correspondence between Village‘s editor and RTÉ’s ad-clearance Department   Editor <editor@villagemagazine.ie> 5 Jun to Hi I hope all is  well with you. Can we please get this running as soon as possible on Radio 1 (I presume is ok!) and what slots are available? Village magazine, the only Irish-owned journal to publish  Catherine Murphy’s Dail  […]

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