With a circulation decline from 100,000 to 9,000, Independent News & Media are to stop publishing the Belfast sports paper Ireland's Saturday Night.
MORE: Belfast's sports paper axed
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The Sunday World has relaunched their website, sundayworld.com, recently.
The content includes columns, gossip, and reviews. They also have online-only content from gossip site PerezHilton.com. And there's video from Balcony TV, along with other video clips of games and films, and 'funnies'.
But no news.
The roll over banner advert currently running across the site shows Paul Williams, the newspaper's crime editor, saying - as ever - he'll be watching the criminals. That's entertaining at least.
Half of the decisions published so far by the Press
Ombudsman relate to model Katy French, reports the Sunday Business Post. Read the article here, or the Ombudsman's and Press Council of Ireland's decisions in full here.
The DPP is appealing a High Court finding that former Evening Herald editor Gerry O’Regan and journalist Anne-Marie Walsh were not in contempt of court.
The move could possibly end in the jailing of Walsh and the now Irish Independent editor O’Regan and fines for Independent News & Media.
MORE: DPP bids to jail editor, reporter for contempt
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)
The Irish Times reported yesterday that the Irish Health and Safety Authority and gardai have told Dublin newspaper publishers to stop distributing at road junctions in the city.
Freesheets Metro and Herald AM as well as the Evening Herald are affected.
Last June the Evening Herald featured a story which announced that people moving between stopped traffic could be a hazard.
That story was referring to window screen washers, but it now seams the HSA think newspaper sellers and distributes are also in danger, while the police are also concerned at any possible affect on traffic movement.
University Collage Cork is to hold
a journalism conference next month which will ask if newspapers are on
their last leg and in danger of being replaced by new media.
The event will include speakers from newspapers and new media.
MORE: The Ballyfermot Post
The editor of an Irish Sunday newspaper said she was “still as idealistic” as the day she started journalism even thought her business editor was sacked recently in questionable circumstances.
In the January edition of the Dubliner magazine Noirin Hegarty, editor of the Sunday Tribune, said “I love what we do at the Sunday Tribune. I’m still as idealistic as the day I started in journalism and I believe in its role as the fourth estate”.
Asked how she can remain idealistic after the questionable sacking of her former business editor, Hegarty said “Thank you for your interest in the Sunday Tribune. This is an internal company matter bound by a confidentiality agreement. It is more complicated than it appears and I won’t be commenting further”.
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The following is a round-up of Irish media news for December 2007...
The Sunday Tribune sacked Richard Delevan yesterday morning from his post of business editor, according to the blog of a technology columnist for the newspaper.
"Richard Delevan is no longer Business Editor of the Sunday Tribune after being fired this morning," wrote Damien Mulley, blogger and tech columnist. "Rumours were going around today that staff in le Trib were told he was kicked out".
The reason for the reported sacking is currently unconfirmed.
Blurred Keys is an Irish blog about print, broadcast, and online media, in ‘the State’ and afar, it’s edited by Cian Ginty
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