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A round-up of news, comment and other info from news sites blogs, and message boards etc…

‘Irish Times’ readership up 1,000 a day, JNRS shows
State of our union as Village magazine closes
Minister criticises media’s coverage of parole decisions
Big increase in newspaper recycling
Irish media now more Eurosceptic, warns EC report
Changing media landscape in Ireland between 2002-2008 and its implications for public opinion about the EU (PDF)
Celtic Media goes freesheet as local newspapers slump
Job cuts loom at regional paper
Star on the rise but ‘market in for tough time’ 
TV3 to invest €10m in Irish-made programmes 
Media world: Silly season’s order of merit 
Taoiseach to scrap his ‘Big Brother’ media monitoring unit
INM show of strength
Video Content On Irish Media Websites

Following rumours of closure and then a very strange statement, the high quality Irish music magazine is to drop its cover price.

And you apparently don’t have to worry if your outside large distribution areas, State will post the magazine to you for "no more than the real price of postage and packing".

As Jim Carroll points out: "Oh and that line about ‘the first Quality National Music Monthly
available completely free of charge’? Surely, the lads and lasses at
State also read Analogue magazine which happens to be a quality national music monthly available completely free of charge?"

Here’s the press release…

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