According to the Irish Times, the latest Joint National Listenership Research shows RTE Drivetime programme coming out in top over Today FM's the Last Word.
But the Last Word and Newstalk's the Right Hook also saw growth.
MORE: RTE has top nine radio shows (subs reqd)
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Apologies for the lack of updates recently, here's a bit of a news round-up...
- Broadcast Bill carries 'right to reply'
- Bill proposes single broadcast regulator
- Irish paper group seeks £8m help
- Press Council member quits over policy *
- Council's suppression of dissenting voice forced me to quit *
- Clarify Privacy Bill's limbo status - FG*
- O'Brien-backed group puts case for DTT licence*
- Metro director to leave paper
- Sir Anthony scoops Media Person of the Year award
* = (subs reqd)
Or at least that's what Gayle Killilea wrote for the Sunday Independent after seeing a group of Irish newspaper reporters staying quite at the former Taoiseach's address to Congress...
...I made my feelings clear about the media behaviour to Charlie Bird when I met him on Wednesday evening. He said that he had clapped. And I believe he did, the broadcast media were seated in a different section of the house to the print media, and did not seem to be infected by the same negativity.
However, he defended their behaviour by asserting that it is normal for journalists to sit impassively during such occasions. This suggests that it is normal for the Irish media to be impartial and detached, which of course they are not. The Irish media are not impartial or detached, the articles that they write demonstrate that...
'Blogging: some ethical issues' is to be the possibility controversy topic of the last Cleraun media forum before the autumn.
It takes place this Monday, May 19 at 8pm, and all are welcome.It'll be chaired by Tony Allwright, an engineer and occasional columnist with the Irish Times, who blogs on international and national issues at www.tallrite.com/blog.htm.
Meanwhile, the 12th Cleraun Media Conference will take place on Saturday and Sunday October 18 – 19, 2008. More details are due closer to the event.
For more see cleraun.com.
The mess that is the relationship between the property sector and the Irish media twists again, from the Sunday Business Post...
Estate agents in Dublin have been accused of providing misleading sales figures to national newspapers.
The suggestion that agents were exaggerating the prices at which properties had sold, in an attempt to manipulate the market, prompted the property editor of The Irish Times to write to agents claiming that the unfair practice was compromising the newspaper.
It was a cover story on the Sunday Business Post yesterday. But, as Richard Delevan points out, the Irish Times really had nothing to say about it...
The Irish Times property editor, Orna Mulcahy, wrote a letter to Ireland’s estate agents, calling them out for attempting to manipulate the market by exaggerating (translation: lying) about the sale prices of houses bought by private treaty. Massive story. The Sunday Business Post — no stranger to property advertising — runs a big piece on it. It’s a major story on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland.
So this morning we searched for the Irish Times‘ own version of the story. None can be found...
Although, we would echo Delevan and say fair play to both the Times' property editor and the Post.
The Irish student media awards, the Three Smedias, were held in Tripod last night, bellow are the all the winners (in bold and orange) followed by the other nominees...
Former Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald, as part of one of his weekly Irish Times columns ('Interaction between print and electronic media seems limited') wrote about the courage of journalists covering paramilitary activities in Ireland not being backed at editorial level:
Continue reading "Ex-Irish Times ed replies to FitzGerald's comments on paramilitary coverage" »
Thomas Crosbie Holdings' BreakingNews.ie was relaunched today, it's the first attempt by an Irish national newspaper company to use embedded video and audio in the main section of their website.
Irish blog, jazzbiscuit.com, has it just about spot on here...
After several years of stoically refusing to budge, BreakingNews.ie gets a make over. The simplicity of the old site has been replaced with a far more modern, but less scannable site. That was my favourite thing about the old one, you could browse all the latest headlines in seconds. You can still do that, but it takes a little longer. It actually seems like you can still get the same old-school view, just by viewing the site’s archives by day.
Still no bylines on the site! What is it about Irish media companies and online news? Why are there no bylines?
The TCH's irishexaminer.com is also due to be relaunched later this year.
The nominations for the 2008 Smedia awards - the Irish student media awards - have been announced.
Although the nominees in three categories have yet to be revealed, the vast majority are available at the organiser's website, oxygen.ie.
The awards take place on Tuesday night at Tripod in Dublin.
- Solicitors ask for the “name and address” of users
- Politics website transfers to US servers after claim
Frank Ward & Co, solicitors for Taoiseach and the Fianna Fail, have had comments removed from an Irish politics website after claiming them to be libellous to the firm.
The offending posting on Politics.ie referred to the handling by Frank Ward & Co of their former client Grainne Carruth around the time she was giving submissions to the Mahon Tribunal. Carruth, who is Bertie Ahern's former secretary, changed solicitors between different dealing she has had with the tribunal.
The website of the Munster Express (pictured above) is one of the clean, clearest and easiest to navigate designs we've seen for a regional Irish newspaper. And like a grown number of UK counterparts, it's built in the free Wordpress content management system.
Shane Hegarty, over at the Irish Times blogs asks if "All these journalism courses must mean a higher standard of writing … right?"
He has got a bit of a debate going in the comments section too. We might comment more on this later. (via mulley.net)
Hegarty's post last year on a higher diploma in journalism by the Irish Academy of Public Relations is quite amusing.
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