Today is our last day @thetimesIE. The team here has done incredible work over the past 4 years and I’m sad that I was a part of it for just a short time. The loss of their reporting is bad for everyone. Ireland needs journalism. I hope people realise that before it is too late.
— Colette Sexton (@colette_sexton) June 21, 2019
Last day at @thetimesIE – thanks to the great team, all the readers, subscribers, fellow hacks, critics, contacts, press folk, government folk, business people, lawyers, campaigners, activists and just anyone and everyone we came into contact with. It has been a blast.
— Richie Oakley #andacyclist (@roakleyIRL) June 21, 2019
I think you can really judge the quality of a newspaper by the kind of people who want it to close, so judging by the absolute s t a t e of the people celebrating mine and my colleagues job losses, @thetimesIE did a LOT of good in its 4 years 😊 I’m so proud of it
— Ellen Coyne (@ellenmcoyne) June 21, 2019
Last day at @thetimesIE -for aspiring hacks: a wise editor once said if you can write, talk on the phone, & ask the right questions you’ll always have a gig telling stories. I started as an intern in @SunTimesIreland & I’m finishing as a senior reporter. Excited for what’s next! pic.twitter.com/11ITFnhR4w
— Catherine Sanz (@sanzscript) June 21, 2019
The first all-female political team in Oireachtas history https://t.co/j5VZNZdhgT
— Niamh Lyons (@niamh_lyons) June 21, 2019
I finished up earlier this week at @thetimesIE. In many ways I’m glad as today I think would’ve brought out a tearfest in me. I was there quite briefly, but it made a major impression on me. Very nice, very talented people who will do brilliantly wherever they go, and deserve to
— Cianan Brennan (@ciananbrennan) June 21, 2019
Saying a sad goodbye to fantastic colleagues and columnists @thetimesIE today. Follow them wherever they go next. pic.twitter.com/P98PKn0k3x
— Jon Smith (@TheJRSmith) June 21, 2019
Sad to see @thetimesIE closing its doors today. Some top class reporting and analysis from this publication over past 4 years. We have to ask do we want quality journalism, and if so, are we willing to pay for it? Democracy needs professional + determined journalism. #BuyaPaper
— Micheál Martin (@MichealMartinTD) June 21, 2019
Earlier: De Friday Papers
Rupert Murdoch’s rag can go to hell.
Poor Colette Sexton, she’d only moved from the frying pan of the Sunday Business Post just a couple of months ago. As I said before, it would remind you of that Somerset Maugham tale, “appointment in Samarra”.
Good luck to them all, there were some quality people with that paper.
I’m delighted that they all think that they are great..
Journalism in Ireland = Get Wire Copy – Read Wire Copy – Slightly Rewrite Wire Copy – Post.
Journalism in News Corp = Get Wire Copy – Read Wire Copy – Post.
Won’t be missed.
Isn’t the internet lovely
Was turned down for a senior role in that place c.15 years ago. So thankful. It was Murdoch-infected.
I think its terrible to see anyone losing their job
And its doing us no favours at all that a newspaper is exiting the Irish market
And leaving us with even less competition in the Media
But I’ve come to realise over the last while
that too many people are calling themselves Journalists
Yet what they produce, or put their name to
Is not Journalism or even Reporting
Applying the job title of Journalist to themselves
Without the benefit of an employment contract or a publishing contract explicitly quoting the job/ engagement title
Or even the existence any commercial reality to establish the title
Unfortunately the Journalists and Reporters in the Times Ireland Edition, that have today lost their jobs, have
IMO anyway
allowed their professions be belittled, mocked and ridiculed far to easily
Quite literally, their profession has been counterfeited on their watch and under their noses
Surely its time to regulate and licence the profession to some set of professional standards in order to use the title
Like the Architects had to
Like the professions I’m party to
In all fairness,
If I put my signature to an opinion that was not backed up with hard facts and evidence
Independently sourced and third party verified
And circulated it for others to consider and use to make decisions; like a set of accounts to a board or to an investor
That turned out to be completely false, and without substance or supporting documentation
I would be sued, and I would lose my livelihood
Just food for thought lads
that’s all