The issue is an ongoing one discussed on Boards.ie’s News / Media forum (the long list is below), and two years ago Shane Hegarty also blogged at IrishTimes.com on journalism courses and standards.
Here’s a few questions I’m interested getting answers to:
Are courses worth it?
Are journalism degrees and diplomas respected in the industry?
Which ones are most [...]
As I seem to be using Twitter for many links I would usually put on this blog, here’s some of the recent Twitter updates from @cianginty:
‘Taoiseach in High Court challenge to release Cabinet CO2 document’ http://www.irishtimes.com/n… …Getting a look at the minutes of Cabinet discussions on Ireland’s emissions would be interisting to say the least
‘Two [...]
Wide Open Spaces looks like fun (Via Linehan). Due to release in Ireland on July 17…
DCU Drama Society’s version of Rent at the Olympia — which is due to close tonight (Saturday) — is getting rave reviews from the media and bloggers. Here’s links to reviews and other coverage: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Congrats to all involved.
I don’t know much about musicals, but I like what [...]
From over the weekend, some story telling with a diffrence:
David OReilly’s animation short ‘Please Say Something’ (via Graham Linehan). Described a “A troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant Future. Winner of the Golden Bear for best short film at the 2009 Berlinale”.
The other — and I’m not sure which is [...]
(Via amsterdamize.com)
The blog of the guy who did that Famine & Byrne / Hardtimes stuff, ‘Will Saint Leger’, is here. The design of his “Bertie Bills” is great, on that he says:
The day before Bertie Ahern resigned from office, I loaded Molly Malone’s statue with £50,000 worth of ‘Bertie Bills’ for anyone to take away. People [...]
Just looking at the G20 coverage on Guardian.co.uk: Maybe more sinister than police attacking peaceful protesters — because it may show intent — is a video where an office addresses the “ladies and gentleman of the press” and asks them to leave the area or they will be arrested.
The officer from the City of London [...]
In other news…
Tried to set up a second regular publication along with a journalism society in DCU, and failed. The committee in charge said they don’t think the uni can support another publication.
For the record, DCU has one newspaper that comes out once a month. Compare that to UCD where there are two papers [...]
From the U2 interview published in the Irish Times yesterday, besides Bono’s defence of tax avoidance, here’s the other crazy comment:
“The CD is dying and what’s replaced it is the pure download and that’s not good enough for me. We’re hoping to change that.
“When people get hooked up digitally, we want to have a whole [...]
