Comments on: Irish Times Goes Audio http://eoinkennedy.ie/blog/2008/05/irish-times-goes-audio/ A Public Relations Perspective Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:31:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Keith Morrison http://eoinkennedy.ie/blog/2008/05/irish-times-goes-audio/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Keith Morrison Fri, 30 May 2008 09:52:59 +0000 http://eoinkennedy.ie/blog/?p=20#comment-191 This is great to see and congratulations to everyone in the Irish Times. It happens here in Korea depending on the newsworthiness of the story. As you may know, Korea has the second highest broadband penetration (last time I looked anyway) and journalists often turn up with video cameras for interviews and upload the whole thing. It can be a surprise for the interview candidate too. It certainly creates more challenges for a PR/Communications professional but also the journalist whose often turning up with cameras, video camera as well as his pen... I actually got caught off guard the first time I encountered this when a journalist from the Chosun Ilbo (Korea's paper of record...) turned up to interview my own company's CEO when he visited Korea last year and started to film the interview. This is great to see and congratulations to everyone in the Irish Times.

It happens here in Korea depending on the newsworthiness of the story. As you may know, Korea has the second highest broadband penetration (last time I looked anyway) and journalists often turn up with video cameras for interviews and upload the whole thing. It can be a surprise for the interview candidate too. It certainly creates more challenges for a PR/Communications professional but also the journalist whose often turning up with cameras, video camera as well as his pen…

I actually got caught off guard the first time I encountered this when a journalist from the Chosun Ilbo (Korea’s paper of record…) turned up to interview my own company’s CEO when he visited Korea last year and started to film the interview.

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