Category Archive for "Media"
Will Data Kill the PR Star.
Last week I chaired a low key session with the PRII on the topic of Data Driven Journalism that ended on a more positive note than I had expected. Some very pragmatic pointers from the session and although its not…
Data Driven Journalism. Watch out PR.
The formal launch of the Irish Times data section last week unveils an interesting emerging picture in the world of data driven journalism. Social media and Twitter in particular have been very fertile grounds for journalists but the pure volume…
Books I read – No. 1 – Ireland’s Burning
The Irish Times interview with James Lovelock gave me a nudge to finish the final chapter of RTE Paul Cunningham’s book called Ireland’s Burning. James Lovelock is a world thinker on environmental issues and takes a very grim view of…
Are we facing online newspaper subscriptions again?
Siobhan O’Connell wrote an interesting piece in the yesterdays Irish Times about how newspapers need to make online content profitable. One of the things I took from it was that broadsheets are losing readership numbers to tabloids which would appear…
