Media

Broadcast media fetishised false balance in marriage-equality referendum, while print media leaned to Yes. By Gerard Cunningham

Unions angry that RTE’s digital channels use volunteers. By Gerard Cunningham

Even the BBC’s coverage of bank bailouts was dominated by financial voices. By George Monbiot

By Gerard Cunningham 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 newspaper-folk are far less upset at missing the bubble that at the idea that they did so because of anything the advertising department said. Take […]

By Gerard Cunningham At one point during his workshop at MoJoCon, the mobile- journalism conference organised by RTÉ in late March, BBC reporter Nick Garnett paused during his demonstration of the audio editing software he was using to edit the sound recordings he had made earlier. Garnett’s NoJo website opens with an impressive promise. “Recording […]

The cost of using social networks and email services may usually come without a financial price but most of us are aware that the companies providing these services expect something else in return: our information. That these technological superpowers gather, analyse and, ultimately, monetise this data is no longer a trade secret. In recent years, […]

By Gerard Cunningham If one story last month illustrated how far Irish media have to go in adapting to the speed at which stories develop online, it was the latest gaffe by Galway-based Fine Gael senator Fidelma Healy-Eames. Healy-Eames does not have a good record when it comes to the internet. So error prone has […]