ANNUAL 2020 – AIRWAVES: COVID: A GOOD NEWS STORY
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ANNUAL 2020: ABC OF MEDIA ABANDONED
November 19, 2020
Hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, the print media still managed to afflict some of the comfortable during a torrid year. Just ask the... Read more »
INM’S MIXED RESULTS
November 19, 2020
A CHEERFUL report in the Irish Independent last week gave figures from the annual results of Independent News & Media Group Ltd, the holding... Read more »
WOMAN MD FOR ‘IRISH TIMES’?
November 19, 2020
WOMEN JOURNALISTS at the Irish Times will surely be pleased should yet another woman take the post of managing director now that Liam Kavanagh... Read more »
STEPHEN COLLINS’S OMISSION
November 19, 2020
A MOST arresting headline on the recent weekly column of former Irish Times political editor Stephen Collins declared, “It’s worth recalling defining moment in... Read more »
NEW EDITOR FOR ‘ST’
November 5, 2020
Frank Fitzgibbon’s resignation as editor of the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times leaves the gate open for John Burns, the man who has... Read more »
MARTIN’S ‘SHARED’ HISTORY
November 5, 2020
AN TAOISEACH Micheál Martin developed his shared-island theme with the Guardian last week in an exercise in historic revisionism that will have fazed even... Read more »
IAN BAILEY AND THE MEDIA
October 22, 2020
MEDIA COVERAGE of the garda’s strenuous efforts to put Ian Bailey in the frame for Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s murder in 1996 initially relied... Read more »
IRISH TIMES ETHICS
October 22, 2020
A CLASSIC Irish Times device was deployed last week when the paper of record published a full page advertisement promoting herd immunity and the... Read more »
PROTESTER UNMASKED
October 22, 2020
GALWAY BAY FM received a flood of complaints following a 19-minute interview-cum-debate with Darragh O’Flaherty, a far-right warrior with anti-immigrant views. The interview followed... Read more »
HACK GOES DOWN ON GALWAY BAY
October 8, 2020
AN INCESTUOUS spat and legal action between Galway Bay FM and a journalist from the radio station’s owners, the Connacht Tribune, was settled in... Read more »
EXCLUSIVE MATERIAL
October 8, 2020
THAT “FEARLESS” Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph correspondent, the late Chris Ryder, was for many years an inspiration to British hacks covering the Troubles,... Read more »
NUIG JOB CONFLICT
October 8, 2020
EX-IRISH TIMES editor Conor Brady’s appointment as Honorary Professor of Journalism at NUI Galway (NUIG) underlines the ambition of the university’s top hack-ademic, Tom... Read more »
KEVIN MYERS’S LITTLE JOKE
September 24, 2020
A PROVOCATIVE statement from Merrion Press, publishers of Kevin Myers’s recent apologia, Burning Heresies, claims the author “was sacked from the Irish edition of... Read more »
UCD/‘IRISH TIMES’ PR
September 24, 2020
A COPY of UCD’s 2020-2021 Alumni magazine recently accompanied each edition of the Irish Times – 50% owners of Gloss Publications, publishers of Alumni... Read more »
EVOKING PIPPA’S PRICES
September 24, 2020
ASSOCIATED NEWSPAPERS (Ireland), publishers of the Mail titles and Evoke.ie, appears to have become exasperated with social influencers, like Pippa O’Connor and others, who... Read more »
DUKES ‘IN BED’ WITH CHINA
September 10, 2020
FORMER FINANCE minister and Fine Gael leader Alan Dukes will presumably be familiar with the relentless campaign by the Sunday Times Aarish edition to... Read more »
VLAD TO RESCUE MEDIA?
September 10, 2020
THE CONFRONTATION between the Australian government and Facebook over legislation to make digital platforms pay for news content will be watched with interest by... Read more »
PUB RULES
September 10, 2020
THIS WEEK’S decision to allow the so-called ‘wet pubs’ re-open from September 21 was the culmination of a remarkably effective PR campaign waged by... Read more »
FINTAN GET’S IT WRONG!
August 27, 2020
MOST IRISH TIMES readers and certainly those who work in the IT editor’s office would dismiss the notion of Papal infallibility, but they do... Read more »
SHINNERS V JOE DUFFY
August 27, 2020
TO INADVERTENTLY provoke a defamation action from one Sinn Féin TD could be regarded as misfortune, but to do so against another SF TD... Read more »
‘POST’ MITCHELL MED WARS
August 27, 2020
HEALTH MINISTER Stephen Donnelly’s bad press can hardly be laid at the door of his new policy advisor, former Business Post health and deputy... Read more »
‘SINDO’ REVISIONISM ON JOHN HUME
August 13, 2020
NEWLY ENSCONCED Sunday Independent editor Alan English oversaw a well-crafted but highly revisionist special section last weekend on his newspaper’s diatribes against the late... Read more »
SUNDAY TIMES PLAYBOOK
August 13, 2020
NO FAFFING around at the Sunday Times (unlike the Sindo) this weekend, where MI5’s favourite newspaper played it straight from the British political and... Read more »
VINCENT CROWLEY’S CV
August 13, 2020
THE SPECTACLE of a former chief executive suing his former employer for breaches of data protection and privacy makes for compelling viewing and there... Read more »
IRISH WRITER NOT CENSORED
July 30, 2020
DISTINGUISHED AUTHOR, critic and musical director Richard Pine, who currently pens a regular ‘Greece Letter’ for the Irish Times and who studied and worked... Read more »
OUT OF REACH
July 30, 2020
THE END of an era was reached recently with John ‘Jumbo’ Kierans stepping down as editor-in-chief of the Irish Mirror after 25 years with the... Read more »
Ó SNODAIGHS’ MOTOR CARS
July 30, 2020
LISTENERS TO Joe Duffy’s Livewhine radio show shortly after the general election would have been taken aback to hear Joe apologising for a slip... Read more »
SETBACK FOR DANA
July 16, 2020
THE LIBEL juggernaut launched by former presidential candidate and ex-MEP Dana Rosemary Scallon, against various media, ground to a temporary halt in the High... Read more »
VICTORIA ABDICATES
July 16, 2020
AMONG THOSE journalists stepping back from the media to facilitate the new government is Irish Examiner columnist Victoria White, wife of Green Party leader Eamon Ryan.... Read more »
‘SUNDAY TIMES’ CULTURE
July 16, 2020
SUNDAY TIMES associate editor John Burns must suffer from medium-term memory loss accentuated by an irony deficit. His outpourings on sexism, discrimination and freedom... Read more »
WHO’S AFRAID OF DANIEL KINAHAN?
July 2, 2020
THE STAR’S gamble in announcing a boycott of the proposed Anthony Joshua/Tyson Fury fight has paid off spectacularly as gangster Daniel Kinahan was effectively... Read more »
IRISH TIMES GENDER ISSUES
July 2, 2020
THOSE STROPPY Irish Times women haven’t gone away, you know. A report from IT women journalists alleging all manner of sexist, “macho” behaviour by... Read more »
DUTCH MASTER SALES
July 2, 2020
MEDIAHUIS’s INM publisher in Ireland, Peter Vandermeersch, has been quoted as having scant respect for INM’s digital strategy (“incredibly, there was none”) and not... Read more »
IVAN’S HARD NECK
June 18, 2020
THE RETIREMENT of The Hard Shoulder presenter on Newstalk, Ivan Yates, was announced by the ex-Fine Gael minister in February following a settlement with... Read more »
BRENDAN O’CONNOR’S REINVENTION
June 18, 2020
THE REINVENTED, caring Brendan O’Connor is beginning to grate almost as much as when he prided himself on dishing it to every vulnerable group... Read more »