Today I am joined by Eamonn Mallie and Lyra McKee, editor of Mediagazer and Muckraker.me, to discuss the role of the media in local politics
Press play below to listen to the discussion:
Issues raised throughout the course of today’s conversation include the following:
00.44: Journalists’ role in today’s society and why we should be interested in what they do.
05.02: Are local journalists evolving?
07.08: Do local media services cater for our local demand?
09.32: Local media and investigative journalism.
13.05: Is the press asking the right questions?
16.30: Journalism and selective leaking.
20.07: How social media is changing the breaking of news/ Have authorities and institutions lost both control and command of news?
21.22: Is the social media the biggest change you have seen in your lifetime Eamonn?
24.59: Do you have to have WordPress as an emerging journalist?
32.00: Will the three local papers in Northern Ireland survive?
1 Comment
Wow, where did you find this guy Chris? Pure awful, what a philistine and plebish (deliberately provocative). I worry about journalism in NI