Blurred Keys

The Irish Times (IT) is often compared to the Guardian in at least the make-up of the two newspaper companies, it centres around the fact the two are owned by trusts. But the comparisons is, at best, questionable. 

As former IT editor Conor Brady points out in his book Up With the Times, the setting up of the two trusts were remarkably different — without going into detail here, the Guardian’s Scott Trust was set up in an act of selflessness while the Irish Times Trust was marred in controversy and pocket lining.

The current day differences of how the two companies are operated might be similar in ways, but in others the two are vastly different.

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