Jamie Bryson: Northern Irish unionists ‘must go on the offensive’
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
More market disruption ahead as streamers go after live sports
Netflix last week announced it had acquired Spanish rights to 2030 World Cup
In making a mess of the budget, Patrick O’Donovan may have done us a favour
If public service broadcasting is to retain public trust and integrity, it must be insulated from political pressure
Trial by everyone: Cornell case shows why Ireland’s strict court reporting rules matter
The ground will not stop shifting, but the principle that people are tried on the evidence in court, and nowhere else, remains worth fighting for
RTÉ’s new Listen app tells us some things about its future direction but keeps others hidden
Should the national broadcaster be offering its listeners’ data as part of its sales pitch to advertisers?
Is Ireland still a place ‘open to everything except for God’?
Public professions of faith induce a kind of culture cringe in post-Catholic Ireland. But when someone like Katie Taylor tells us what they believe, the least we can do is listen
Who should we believe on the AI apocalypse?
Media coverage of the AI debate leaves us uncomfortably short on answers
The age of the exciting smartphone launch is over, but is a new sort of device on its way?
Will an audience raised on that endless video scroll really be seduced by a screenless box?
Social media’s age of the follower is replaced by tyranny of the recommender machine
It’s easy to rage against the machine. It’s harder to propose a viable alternative
The Jason Arday media storm was partly of his own making. But he deserved better
Was the coverage excessive? Yes. Was it driven by racial animus? Undoubtedly, in some cases
Of course Hollywood is dying. It’s been dying for nearly 80 years
AI is cited as the latest threat to Hollywood’s survival, yet box office revenues are at record levels
Podcast shift to video is a fait accompli, but how is it changing audience habits?
TV, radio, video-on-demand and streamers all jostle for attention but the instruments that measure them remain separate and mutually unintelligible
Ireland has become a colder house for artists like Glen Hansard
It is not an accident that The Frames made their first post-Island record with financial backing from Whelan’s, the venue at the heart of the Dublin scene Hansard did more than anyone to birth
The news learned to follow us everywhere. No wonder we are hiding from it
Many people no longer feel they have control over when they read the news as outlets chase engagement
End of an era for ITV could have implications for Irish viewers
More than 70 years after its founding, the UK’s commercial broadcaster has been acquired by a US giant