‘They’re nice people but ...’: Is public funding of news media its saviour or threatening its freedom?
Funding by State’s media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán, aims to address crisis that threatens liberal democracy
Irish Independent
Once one of the most influential people in Irish media, he ignored his own golden rule
A journalist using AI-generated quotes in articles about AI is like a doctor injecting one virus in the hope of curing another
Peter Vandermeersch controversy illustrates AI challenge more vividly than anything he wrote
Former publisher of Irish Independent and its Sunday sister title suspended by Mediahuis over using false quotes in articles derived from AI tools such as ChatGPT
Mediahuis suspends senior journalist after admission of using AI material in his work
Publisher of Irish Independent and Sunday Independent says ‘this should never have happened’
Further orders relating to care of vulnerable minor granted by High Court
News organisations made application to judge in respect of reporting restrictions
Irish Independent owner Mediahuis Ireland appoints new chief executive
Sheena Peirse will take over at helm at Irish arm of media group from October 1st
RTÉ €725m funding could ‘distort’ media market, Irish Independent publisher warns Minister
Mediahuis tells minister to continue scrutinising cost of broadcaster ‘duplicating work’ done by commercial media
Court rejects landlord-turned-screenwriter’s bid to use stalking laws to ‘silence’ journalist
Judge criticises attempt to ‘gag’ reporter and orders applicant to foot €10,000 legal bill
Irish Independent owner reports lower advertising revenues
Revenues at Mediahuis ‘stable’ year-on-year at €1.2 billion, Belgian group reports
Irish Independent publisher takes legal action against X over ‘fake ads’
Move follows ads and promoted posts on X featuring fake articles using Irish Independent branding
UL professor Stephen Kinsella to be appointed economics adviser to Taoiseach Simon Harris
Mr Kinsella will balance the role with his commitments to the University of Limerick, while taking a break from journalism
Russia blocks access to The Irish Times and 80 other EU media outlets
Other Irish publications – as well as Spain’s El País, France’s Le Monde and Germany’s Der Spiegel – also hit with ban
Four in 10 people in Ireland ‘worn out by the amount of news there is these days’
News and information overload a ‘common complaint’, Reuters Institute digital news report finds, but more people now pay for news
Death of Nicholas Leonard, founder editor of Irish Times business section
He became Ireland’s first full-time business journalist when recruited in 1963 aged 23
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