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Blogging: some ethical issues?

'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.

Financial journalists too close to business?

The Cleraun media forum continues next Monday, February 25, at 8pm to 9.30pm with Damien Kiberd chairing a session which will ask if financial journalists are too close to business.

Kiberd, who presents Down to Business on Newstalk, was a founder and former editor of the Sunday Business Post. He also currently writes a business column for the Irish edition of the Sunday Times.

The forums are free to attend and informal affairs. They are held near UCD at the Cleraun University Centre, 90 Foster Avenue, Mount Merrion. Cleraun is run by Opus Dei. For more see: www.cleraun.com.

CORRECTION: For a short time this post first said the above event was on 'tonight' rather then correctly saying 'next Monday, February 25'. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Media and death penalty tonight

REMINDER: The director of the capital punishment project of the American Civil Liberties Union, John Holdridge, will talk at the Cleraun University Centre tonight.

It is the second media event at the centre since the restart of the Dublin-based Cleraun Media Forums.'

The US media on the death penalty: friend or foe?', session 7, will be on Monday 5 November, from 8pm to 9.30pm.

The Cleraun University Centre is at 90 Foster Avenue, Mount Merrion, Co Dublin.As with previous forums, the organisers are openly inviting journalists, students, lecturers, or anybody interested in the media. The forums are casual small-scale events.

REMINDER: The director of the capital punishment project of the American Civil Liberties Union, John Holdridge, will talk at the Cleraun University Centre tonight.

It is the second media event at the centre since the restart of the Dublin-based Cleraun Media Forums.'

The US media on the death penalty: friend or foe?', session 7, will be on Monday 5 November, from 8pm to 9.30pm.

The Cleraun University Centre is at 90 Foster Avenue, Mount Merrion, Co Dublin.As with previous forums, the organisers are openly inviting journalists, students, lecturers, or anybody interested in the media. The forums are casual small-scale events.

Dublin Cleraun media forum to restart

The Cleraun University Centre is to restart the Dublin-based Cleraun Media Forums in two weeks time.

Set for the first two weeks are the topics of journalists and Catholic diocesan websites, and the US media on the death penalty.

The forums started after the 2006 Cleraun Media Conference, one of the best known events of its kind in Ireland.

As with previous forums, the organisers are openly inviting journalists, students, lecturers, or anybody interested in the media. The forums are casual small-scale events.

Dublin media event: Competent = ethical?

Journalists, students, lecturers, and people interested in the media are invited to a media forum titled ‘Is an ethical journalist simply a competent journalist?’, the event is a continuation of the Cleraun forums.

It will take place this Monday at 8 to 9pm and moderated by Tomás Ó Síocháin, programme editor at RTÉ / TG4.

Forum on fairness and balance tonight

The Dublin Cleraun Media Forum sessions continue tonight (Monday, February 26) with the topic of ‘Fairness and balance’.

It will be moderated by Pat Leahy, political correspondent at the Sunday Business Post, and is based on a talk by Rachael English at the 11th Cleraun Media Conference last October.

The one hour forum starts at 8pm at Cleraun University Centre, 90 Foster Avenue, Mount Merrion, Dublin.

Second Cleraun media forum tonight

- Paper now online

REMINDER: Cleraun are to host the second in a series of monthly media forum tonight at 8pm, the topic is ‘Investigative journalism: standards, sources, accuracy’.

Tonight’s hour long forum stems from a talk at last year’s Cleraun media conference by David Barstow, New York Times journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner – the full text of it is now online at cleraun.com.

For further details see our first story on this topic or cleraun.com.

Dublin media conf. to run monthly forums

As a result of feedback from the Cleraun Media Conference in October, Cleraun are set to run monthly media forums at their UCD-adjacent centre.

A number of papers from the October conference are now online at cleraun.com, with more to follow. The hour-long forums are to focus on the papers and matters raised at the conference.

Moderated by experienced journalists the forums will start on Monday, December 4, with ‘Safeguarding personal integrity’, and will continue every forth Monday from 20.00 to 21.00 afterwards until March, when the events will be reviewed. The planned schedule follows.

Cleraun Media Conference this weekend

The Cleraun Media Conference takes place this weekend.

Pat Leahy’s Any Other Business (for some reason not on sbpost.ie this week) calls it “The best and most thought provoking conference”, adding “The centre is run by Opus Dei, but nobody is going to force you to wear barbed wire underpants. Well, they didn’t last year anyway”. We hope that trend does not change. For more see cleraun.com.