DCU’s Niamh Kirk has launched a crowdsourcing project to fact-check the general election campaign. As Niamh explains, “the idea is to create a bridge between…
Mathew Ingram in Fortune questions whether critics are right to link the financial losses at The Guardian to the paper’s pursuit of open journalism. He writes open journalism is “a…
Allie VanNest at Media Shift questions whether Facebook’s referral traffic is as valuable as publishers assume. She writes “social referrals led to the fewest seconds of…
In the Dublin Inquirer, Sam Tranum examines the rise of native advertising in Irish journalism and questions the impact on media credibility and the role of…
Michael Calderone of The Huffington Post reports on the rethink of newsroom structures at The New York Times. He quotes a staff memo by executive…
In Journalism Practice, Eugenia Siapera and Lambrini Papadopoulou critique the current emphasis on entrepreneurial journalism and assess cooperative journalism as a more socially valuable alternative.…
Nic Newman of the Reuters Institute analyses media trends for 2016 including the rise of virtual reality (VR) and 360° video as well as the continued…
Edelman have identified the top five online publishers of election content by audience engagement. Digital-only publisher TheJournal.ie tops the ranking with Sinn Féin in third…
When Enda Kenny used Twitter to announce the date of the next general election, he appeared to confirm what political pundits have been telling us…
The Irish branch of the Online News Association is launching this Wednesday with a special panel to discuss coverage of the general election. The Online…