Nearly half of Irish adults now say they actively try to avoid the news. In this year’s Digital News Report Ireland, produced by DCU’s FuJo research centre and published by Coimisiún na Meán, the figure reached 47 per cent, up from 41 the year before. The... See more
Jerry Seinfeld had a line about how amazing it was that the amount of news happening in the world each day “always just exactly fits the newspaper”. The joke worked because everyone half-knew the secret. The news did not fit the paper. The paper was the f... See more
The clock is ticking loudly for RTÉ to sort out who will host The Late Late Show this autumn. Patrick Kielty’s contract expired more than nine weeks ago. The new schedule is traditionally unveiled in August. The show itself returns in September. Still, no... See more
With just a couple of days to go until the first match kicks off at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, it has been a strangely muted run-in to the 2026 World Cup. Media muscle memory has kicked in, with the usual dutiful assembly line of familiar furnitur... See more
The relationship between the media industry and the technology sector has been fraught at least since the arrival of search engines in the late 1990s. It became more so with the advent of social media a decade later. Again and again, news publishers have ... See more
