Blurred Keys

The mess that is the relationship between the property sector and the Irish media twists again, from the Sunday Business Post… 

Estate agents in Dublin have been accused of providing misleading sales figures to national newspapers.

The
suggestion that agents were exaggerating the prices at which properties
had sold, in an attempt to manipulate the market, prompted the property
editor of The Irish Times to write to agents claiming that the unfair
practice was compromising the newspaper.

It was a cover story on the Sunday Business Post yesterday. But, as Richard Delevan points out, the Irish Times really had nothing to say about it…

The Irish Times property editor, Orna Mulcahy, wrote a letter
to Ireland’s estate agents, calling them out for attempting to
manipulate the market by exaggerating (translation: lying) about the
sale prices of houses bought by private treaty. Massive story. The Sunday Business Post — no stranger to property advertising — runs a big piece on it. It’s a major story on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland.

So this morning we searched for the Irish Times‘ own version of the story. None can be found…

Although, we would echo Delevan and say fair play to both the Times’ property editor and the Post.

UPDATE: The winners for 2009 3 Student Media Awards, Smedias, are now here.

The Irish student media awards, the Three Smedias, were held in Tripod last night, bellow are the all the winners (in bold and orange) followed by the other nominees…

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Former Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald, as part of one of his weekly Irish Times columns (’Interaction between print and electronic media seems limited‘) wrote about the courage of journalists covering paramilitary activities in Ireland not being backed at editorial level:

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Thomas Crosbie Holdings’ BreakingNews.ie was relaunched today, it’s the first attempt by an Irish national newspaper company to use embedded video and audio in the main section of their website.   

Irish blog, jazzbiscuit.com, has it just about spot on here…

After several years of stoically refusing to budge, BreakingNews.ie
gets a make over. The simplicity of the old site has been replaced with
a far more modern, but less scannable site. That was my favourite thing
about the old one, you could browse all the latest headlines in
seconds. You can still do that, but it takes a little longer. It
actually seems like you can still get the same old-school view, just by
viewing the site’s archives by day.

Still no bylines on the site! What is it about Irish media companies and online news? Why are there no bylines?

The TCH’s irishexaminer.com is also due to be relaunched later this year.

UPDATE: The winners for 2009 3 Student Media Awards, Smedias, are now here.

The nominations for the 2008 Smedia awards - the Irish student media awards - have been announced.

Although the nominees in three categories have yet to be revealed, the vast majority are available at the organiser's website, oxygen.ie.

The awards take place on Tuesday night at Tripod in Dublin.