Blurred Keys

The latest TNS mrbi Joint National Listenership Research results, covering the whole of 2007, into radio in Ireland have been released. The can be viewed here (pdf).

The 2008 Edelman Trust Barometer has recorded a rise in
trust of the mainstream media in Ireland among what the PR firm calls ‘opinion elites’.

The survey was conducted using 30-minute
telephone interviews among 150 college-educated respondents aged between 35 and 64. All were within the top 25 percent of household income nationally.

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University Collage Cork is to hold
a journalism conference next month which will ask if newspapers are on
their last leg and in danger of being replaced by new media.

The event will include speakers from newspapers and new media.

MORE: The Ballyfermot Post

A more up-to-date list is now here.

Since the original post was published the number of links we have to Irish
journalists’ blogs has massively expanded – mostly thanks to reader’s
comments on the last post.

Again, this is by no means a complete list. You can post additions,
corrections, comments, and, as always, abuse below. (You can comment
here without entering an email address, or name).

Adam Maguire, freelancer
Adrian Weckler, tech journalist / editor, S. Business Post
Dave Forsythe, Deputy Editor, Cork Independent
Declan Cashin, subeditor the Star; col. Irish Independent
Fergus Cassidy, freelancer
Gavin Sheridan, freelance sub-editor, Irish Examiner
Harry McGee, political editor, Irish Examiner
Haydn Shaughnessy tech journalist, the Irish Times
John Maguire, film critic, Irish Independent
John Reynolds, freelancer
John Naughton, (UK-based) columnist, the Observer
John Collins, tech journalist, the Irish Times
Karlin Lillington, tech journalist, the Irish Times
Kevin Rafter, assistant editor/political editor, Sunday Tribune
Kathy Foley freelancer, & columnist, the Sunday Times
Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, Andersonstown News Group
Ronan Fitzgerald, freelance journalist (the Guardian, Pitchfork)
Ruairi Roddy, technology officer, Thomas Crosbie Holdings
Ronan Price, Editor, Herald AM; tech col., Evening Herald 
Richard Delevan, business editor and col., Sunday Tribune
Sinead Gleeson, arts journalist, the Irish Times
Sarah Carey columnist the Sunday Times
Tom Griffin, (UK-based)
Una Mullally, journalist, Sunday Tribune

Earlier today, English journalist Ian Bailey started an appeal over the failed libel action against Irish and UK newspapers over their linking of him to the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

Bailey was arrested twice, but never charged. The newspaper involved are the Daily Telegraph, the Times, the Sunday Times and IN&M titles the Sunday Independent, (London) Independent on Sunday, and the Irish Daily Star (then the Star).
More text and video at RTE.ie.

It was only June when Blurred Keys was redefined as an Irish media blog. Previously this blog was for publishing my mix ranting and photographs, it just happens a lot of my ranting were about the media.

Here’s Blurred Keys’ year (by date)…

1. LINK: ‘Google falls at first moral hurdle’
2. Irish Times lurching to the right, as usual
3. Dublin riot round up
4. Dublin riot: Security and reactions
5. Western People & the otter blunder
6. “Well, who gives a damn about the prophets of Tesco?”
7. Bebo phenomenon restricted to Ireland – Google Trends
8. Sindo’s Harris versus the Village (…and the Phoenix, just to get them all in)
9. Redefining to reflect content – this is now a ‘media blog’
10. 
    RTE makes and keeps "personalities"
11. Kushnir to sue over Lawlor crash reporting
12. Haughey: the web reactions round up
13. RTE testing mobile digital signal
14. UK media bloging mad? But what about Ireland?
15. More on print and the web
16. Irish Times should blog about moving!
17. Blogorrah.com - the start of empire building with “very few overheads”
18. Regional newspapers’ pension wind up plan unjustified, says Labour Court
19. Browne on crime journalism & Guerin
20. Privacy bill "a step too far", "a threat to press freedom", "not the solution"
21. When is it a war?
22. Irish Daily Mail down 28,000 in 3 months
23. Irish privacy bill not on the bloging radar
24. MCD threatens Indo and board.ie over Oxegen music festival campsite claims
25. PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable continue to dominate Irish games charts
26. MEMO: "Not guilt" removes “criminal act”
27. MCD on damage control?
28. Gamesindustry.biz editor points to confusing reporting of new console war
29. Late Late Show in Lego (YouTube video)
30. Gatsby launch sports blog for Ireland
31. ‘A little information is a dangerous thing’
32. ‘A little information is…’ yes, again
33. Why Today FM are winning
34. ‘Old’ media ignoring stories, why never!…
35. Daily Ireland stops printing, cites lack of government funding and advertising
36. ‘Independent’ censorship underreported? Phoenix obsessed with Village?
37. Latest Irish newspaper circulation figures
38. Ireland on Sunday now Irish Mail on Sunday
39. BREAKING NEWS: Media "personalities" grown outside RTE shocker, says boffen
40. Tubridy "never heard" of Drudge; but RTE would love 3.5 billion hits in 12 months
41. OSCE questions Irish defamation bill
42. Irish manager to media: leave family alone
43. Right to protect Irish Times sources has precedent; rest is subjective conjecture
44. NME to launch Irish edition
45. ‘Irishmailonsunday.com’ redirects to competitor’s website, tribune.ie
46. The Irish Times building move
47. Irish NME: 8 pages; accepting local input
48. Irish Mail on Sunday cyber-squatting
49. Cleraun Media Conference this weekend
50. 
    A self regulatory Irish Press Council?
51. Metro Ireland’s rubber ducks
52. Metro ‘Duckgate’ resolved; no more quacks
53. Dublin’s Thinkhouse PR accused of spam; Google censors search listings?
54. If not ditch, put names to papers’ leaders
55. Claire Byrne released!
56. Mulley.net not censored says Google
57. Ireland top for press freedom, but…
58. Ireland’s press freedom ranking questioned
59. Sky News Ireland to "refocus" coverage
60. Dublin’s Phantom FM back on air today
61. The Irish Times’ Ireland.com success?
62. 
    Colbert talks YouTube, on YouTube
63. Sky gains 14,000 Irish subscribers
64. Irish media talking media
65. More on Irish newspapers blogging
66. How newsrooms really work
67. Tits on the cover of The Irish Times!
68. MEDIA ANALYSES: Late Late Show “insufferable arseholes” incident
69. Lower award in Irish Mirror - O’Brien case rejected by Supreme Court
70. Woods ‘bent on killing off Dubliner’ - staff
71. Dublin media conf. to run monthly forums
72. Round up: News features on the Irish media
73. Irish Press Council, Ombudsman revealed as defamation bill debated in the Seanad
74. EXCLUSIVE: Village.ie to relaunch today
75. Irish regional newspapers pensions update

Some of Blurred Keys in 2005…

1. Censorship in Ireland: banned publications
2. Conspiracy – papers on the web for free!
3. Illegal downloaders, but best customers?
4. New Guardian on Monday
5. Some (black) people loot, some (while)…

According to the Irish Independent (vie Boards.ie) there are plans for high-speed train route between Dublin to Cork.

The infrastructure plans would see 200kmh adopted in the link between Clondalkin, Co Dublin and Limerick Junction, over 62pc of the route distance….

Barry Kenny, Iarnrod Eireann spokesperson, said yesterday: "The Cork-Dublin route is our flagship Intercity route, with almost 4,000,000 passenger journeys annually today."

The high-speed of 200kmh/125mmph in question is that achieved by the UK in 1990. However, it’s a positive move all the same…

"A two-hour city centre to city centre journey time would simply be impossible for any other transport mode in this country to even come close to matching," he said.