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Last night.
John Oliver on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver discusses the implications of ‘digital first’ journalism when the quality of content goes by the wayside.
FIGHT!
Free Sunday?
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This Sunday at 2.30pm.
At the Beatyard Festival in Dún Laoghaire Harbour.
A This is Banter discussion, entitled: Better together: are Irish publications ignoring their readers? will be presented by Dublin Inquirer.
This is Banter writes:
Publications are finding new ways to use technologies to work with their readers — through collaborative projects, by asking them what they want journalists to cover, by realising that they can be allies in story-telling.
But how well are journalists and publishers in Ireland engaging their readers? How do both sides see the relationship? And could harnessing the opportunities that new technologies offer help to foster a new era of public-interest journalism in Ireland?
A discussion with award-winning investigative journalist Gemma O’Doherty, Dublin Inquirer managing editor Lois Kapila, DCU School of Communications PhD researcher and Institute for Future Media and Journalism member Niamh Kirk and Banter producer and Irish Times writer Jim Carroll.
Buy tickets here
Media plurality in Ireland by the European University Institute’s Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom
You may recall recent reports about the European University Institute’s Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom examination of media plurality in Ireland.
The report found there’s a ‘high risk’ in relation to the concentration of media ownership in Ireland and that, although there is no legal impediment to becoming a journalist in Ireland, there are ‘barriers’ which ‘limit the access of some groups – e.g., the working classes, ethnic minorities and the disabled – to the profession’.
The report also noted that, ‘there is also anecdotal evidence to suggest that some media owners have sought to influence editorial content’.
Lol.
Further to this…
Journalism in Crisis conference
University of Limerick on Thursday.
Criticalmediareview writes:
Journalism’s independence from social and political forces has again come into question as seen with the cosy relationship between journalism and the financial and property sectors; while recently both newspapers and broadcasters are increasingly coming under accusations of bias in their reportage of social and political events.
This conference will bring together journalists, media workers and media theorists to discuss the role of journalism in the 21st century, conditions for journalists in the contemporary newsroom and prospects for the future of the media industry.
Journalism in times of crisis – University of Limerick April 7, 2016 (Criticalmediareview)
Journalism in times of crisis (Facebook)
Previously: Press Reset
Press Reset
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O’Doherty! Dobbo! Titley! Burtenshawe! Browne! Mmmercille!
Henry Silke writes:
Journalism’s independence from social and political forces has again come into question as seen with the cosy relationship between journalism and the financial and property sectors; while recently both newspapers and broadcasters are increasingly coming under accusations of bias in their reportage of social and political events.
This conference will bring together journalists, media workers and media theorists to discuss the role of journalism in the 21st century, conditions for journalists in the contemporary newsroom and prospects for the future of the media industry….
“It seemed to me that RTÉ’s fundamental failure was to allow this appetite for ‘edgy’, ground-breaking journalism to devour good journalistic practice and particularly editorial practice. It was failure above all of editorial control.”
Bryan Dobson on the Fr Kevin Reynolds affair.
‘Edgy’ journalism led to RTÉ error – Dobson (Independent.ie)
GalwayGirl writes (edgily):
So noted newsreader Bryan Dobson had a lot to say yesterday about editorial standards at RTÉ. Well, he’d certainly be a leading expert on that topic… Maybe stick to reading other people’s scripts to introduce other people’s journalism. Still though – looks good in a suit…
FIGHT!
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
“In my experience of working with various editors over the years, it doesn’t matter if the death has just taken place. Even in the case of a baby’s death, the pressure is on reporters from radio and TV stations to talk to the family and to get the all-important quotes and pictures.Sometimes local councillors are willing accomplices in this practice, colluding in identifying the victim’s address and even giving background information.
The stories are legion. I have twice been asked to approach a family in hospital while their child was recovering in intensive care. I didn’t try very hard.
I have heard, on multiple occasions, news editors cheering at the news of a tragedy involving an attractive woman.
Blimey.
Anyone/Really?
Death knocks: the dark side of journalism (Anonymous, Irish Times)
File photo: Photocall Ireland
How the future of #journalism looked in 1985 in @pressgazette #futuristic #predictions pic.twitter.com/MzKUparAQD
— Mirror Style Guide (@TheMirrorStyle) May 25, 2014
From 1985, a vision of the future from the Press Association.
Flux capacitor just out of sight.
“The best journalists are those who leave aside bogus notions of detachment and become protagonists in the things they write about.
“In this course, John Waters will apply his 30 years of experience as an analyst, reporter, columnist, author and protagonist in order to pass on his experience, perspective and approach to a new generation of journalists.
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