Journalism is often described as a trade, but freelancing is more like an art. Or at least the process of pitching to editors is an art form.
Adam Maguire talks about the it here, following up on the boards.ie News & Media thread on the same subject here. While below are letters from the NUJ's magazine, the Journalist, shows a few different views on the issue...
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...
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" »
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.
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.
The National Union of Journalists’ magazine, Journalist, has gone online, with at least the April edition only being distributed in digital form.
While the publication was previously only posted to NUJ members, it can now be viewed at thejournalist.org.uk.
A PDF version is also downloadable, and is designed for printing in A4.
Continue reading "NUJ's 'Journalist' magazine goes online" »
Four BBC journalists were arrested – with a number of others – by gardai investigating paramilitary activity in Donegal over the weekend. Footage was also seized, and it is still unclear why the arrests were made.
Cover price to go up from €1.70 to €1.80 weekdays, and €2 on Saturdays
The Irish Times is due to start rolling out an extensive revamp tomorrow, but the move appears to be far short of a total redesign.
It will include a brush-up of the main section of the newspaper, an extra daily comment page, new supplements, and a redesign of current supplements. Extra pull-outs include a travel section and a weekly pictures supplement.
According to the Sunday Business Post, the makeover will cost €5 million. Readers will be asked to cough up an extra 10c on weekdays and 20c on Saturdays.
The revamp was handled by the Scottish newspaper design firm Palmer Watson. They have recently worked with the Irish Times on a redesign of the Ticket entertainment supplement and the design of the paper's Innovation monthly business magizine.
With Irish newspaper, Palmer Watson have previously introduced a complete redesign of the Sunday Independent, worked on a relaunch of Galway City Tribune, on the now ill-fated Dublin Daily, and also with the Irish Independent injecting more colour into the paper.
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