The long list for of the Irish Blog Awards' Best Blog from a Journalist has been apparently 'leaked' (also below the gap).
Meanwhile, Blurred Keys' list of Irish journalist who blog has expanded to just under 40.
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We’re hoping to get an interactive thing going with the audience. It would be better, we could have a two-way thing… I think that would be great because it would be a community of people having a discussion rather than a monologue”.
- commented outspoken Irish broadcaster Eamon Dunphy when asked by Irish tech site siliconrepublic.com if he would be interested in blogging (vie blogorrah.com).
‘Do the same standards of professional integrity apply with bloggers and traditional media?’ will be the question of the next Cleraun Media Forum on Monday, April 23, at 8-pm.
The organises are openly inviting bloggers, journalists, students, lecturers, or anybody interested in the media. The open forum will be moderated by Sunday Tribune business editor & columnist Richard Delevan.
The topic is a spin-off from a session given by Sunday Times Columnist and blogger Sarah Carey, at the Cleraun Media Conference last October. Her paper ‘Blog etiquette’ is now available at cleraun.com.
The Irish Times has ventured into blogging for the first time at Ireland.com. The newspaper’s first blog, ‘On the Record’, is hosted by music journalist Jim Carroll.
Along with breaking news and content from the Ticket supplement, the music blog is free-to-view in contrast to much of the site which is subscription based.
While Irish journalists – including Irish Times staff – have been blogging for some time, this is first public move by a national newspaper into blogging.
A more up-to-date list is now here.
Since the original post was published the number of links we have to Irish journalists’ blogs has massively expanded – mostly thanks to reader’s comments on the last post.
Again, this is by no means a complete list. You can post additions, corrections, comments, and, as always, abuse below. (You can comment here without entering an email address, or name).
Adam Maguire, freelancer
Adrian Weckler, tech journalist / editor, S. Business Post
Dave Forsythe, Deputy Editor, Cork Independent
Declan Cashin, subeditor the Star; col. Irish Independent
Fergus Cassidy, freelancer
Gavin Sheridan, freelance sub-editor, Irish Examiner
Harry McGee, political editor, Irish Examiner
Haydn Shaughnessy tech journalist, the Irish Times
John Maguire, film critic, Irish Independent
John Reynolds, freelancer
John Naughton, (UK-based) columnist, the Observer
John Collins, tech journalist, the Irish Times
Karlin Lillington, tech journalist, the Irish Times
Kevin Rafter, assistant editor/political editor, Sunday Tribune
Kathy Foley freelancer, & columnist, the Sunday Times
Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, Andersonstown News Group
Ronan Fitzgerald, freelance journalist (the Guardian, Pitchfork)
Ruairi Roddy, technology officer, Thomas Crosbie Holdings
Ronan Price, Editor, Herald AM; tech col., Evening Herald
Richard Delevan, business editor and col., Sunday Tribune
Sinead Gleeson, arts journalist, the Irish Times
Sarah Carey columnist the Sunday Times
Tom Griffin, (UK-based)
Una Mullally, journalist, Sunday Tribune
- Blogorrah, now a cultural icon
- Advertising started
- Political blog in the works
- Irish sports blog restated
Blogorrah is now online Irish cultural icon spending its time slating Irish politicians, models, actors, and media. Although it is New York-based, Blogorrah has featured in Irish national newspaper and radio and has won the harts and minds of many Irish bloggers, and is pretty proud that the Sunday Independent called them "Frankly disgusting".
On Sunday anonymous or pseudonymous columns in the Irish Mail on Sunday and the Sunday Times felt the need to tackle the issues of Irish journalists who blog.
Both newspapers are Irish editions of UK newspapers, and while their parent companies in the UK have built-up decent online presences both web portals for Ireland.
We hope it was all in good fun (possibly in some stretch of the term), as the parent editions of both publications have a number of blogs on their websites; the Times have over 20 and the Mail at least seven. And the Irish edition of the Sunday Times have at least two columnists who also blog.
The Irish edition of News International’s the Sunday Times had a go at the Sunday Tribune's Kevin Rafter and the Irish Examiner's Harry McGee, saying "while there are not enough pages in their respective newspapers to allow the lads full vent, there is too much room on the internet, so both have launched political blogs, presumably so they can publish all the blather their editors cut out".
While in the Irish Mail on Sunday, the media column ‘the Spike’ also had a poke at Kevin Rafter, along with his Tribune colleagues Richard Delevan, and Una Mullally.
UK newspapers have embraced blogs and there are now more Irish journalists who blog, but no Irish newspaper has blogs built into their website. [Feck this internet thing, I think I’m ranting on about newspapers and blogs, again!]
A more up-to-date list is now here.
Kevin Rafter, the Sunday Tribune’s Assistant Editor/Political Editor, is one of the latest Irish journalists to join the blogging world.
We found Rafter’s blog at he Irish Blogs Awards’ website – which lists new blogs in its blog. They also list Ruairi Roddy, Technology Officer at Thomas Crosbie Holdings, as another new blog.
Although Roddy has been blogging for some time, the IBA’s posts about new blogs aren’t always about truly new blogs, but highly usefully all the same – the clutter on Irish blog aggregators makes it difficult to find new blogs. Here's some of the rest...
Late last year mulley.net reported Harry McGee, Political Editor for the Irish Examiner, also started to blog.
New Yorker and Business Editor and columnist with The Sunday Tribune, Richard Delevan, writes at richarddelevan.blogspot.com.
Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, of the Andersonstown News Group (publishers of the Andersonstown News, North Belfast News, South Belfast News, Lá, and the discontinued-in-print Daily Ireland) blogs at apublishersblog.blogspot.com.
Adam Maguire, a Dublin-based freelancer, writes about the media and politics at adammaguire.com/blog.
Ronan Price, Editor, Herald AM, and tech/games columnist in Evening Herald, writes mainly about his weekly Tuesday column in the paper at logondaily.blogspot.com (EDIT/FIXED: As one reader kindly told us, Price is the Editor at Herald AM).
Irish journalists based in the UK and blogging include John Naughton, and Tom Griffin.
Irish tech journalists who blog include John Collins, and Adrian Weckler. While the Irish Time’s Karlin Lillington seams to have let her domain name, www.techno-culture.com, slip out of her hands, she is writing about tech on chipswiththat.com for Newstalk106-108 FM’s the Right Hook.
One of the most famous Irish blogers, the Sunday Times’ Sarah Carey was a blogger before becoming a columnist. “I’d always wanted to write, so some years ago I began my blog GUBU so I could store ideas for future reference. Then people started reading it, which was unexpected. The Sunday Times read the blog, liked it and offered me a column” Carey states in her site’s about page.
Meanwhile, in the broadcast area, DJs who blog include RTE 2FM’s Rick O'Shea at ricksbreakfastblog.blogspot.com, Today FM’s Ray Foley at rayfoleyshow.blogspot.com, and Victor Barry with Cork's RedFM at victorbarry.blogspot.com.
This is by no means a compleat list, if we’re missing any Irish journalists’ blogs or Ireland-based journalists’ blogs please comment below and leave a link (you can comment here without entering an email address or any name etc).
UPDATE NO.1: Cork-based freelance journalist Kathy Foley, who has previously worked for the Irish edition of the Sunday Times, blogs at kathyfoley.wordpress.com.
UPDATE NO.2: Sinead Gleeson, arts journalist (for the Irish Times and more), blogs at http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/; Dublin freelancer John Reynolds at http://www.johnreynolds.ie/; and Sunday Tribune music journalist, Una Mullally, at the at http://unarocks.blogspot.com/.
UPDATE NO.3: Another is freelancer Fergus Cassidy at http://www.ferguscassidy.ie/ (again, link found vie mulley.net).
UPDATE NO.4: Haydn Shaughnessy has a digital culture blog at http://www.mediangler.com/, he regularly contributes to the Irish Times on similar topics.
UPDATE NO.5: Ronan Fitzgerald, freelance journalist (the Guardian, Pitchfork), blogs at http://www.ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/
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