The Irish News and operating profitably on the net…
Roy Greenslade has an interesting piece on the Irish News’ firewall. Not least the money figures: If you click on the Irish News website up comes a page demanding that you pay for access to a digital...
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“the failure of the British press to cover Northern Ireland properly”
The Guardian’s Roy Greenslade blogged again this morning about “the failure of the British press to cover Northern Ireland properly” and the consequential “absence of knowledge among [Great] British...
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Roy Greenslade on hacking, Leveson, Murdoch, the local press and dissidents
After a break of a decade, Roy Greenslade was back talking at Féile an Phobail on Thursday lunchtime, lecturing in the Falls Road library about the built up to and impact of the Leveson Inquiry. Mark...
View ArticleStrange happenings in Scotland after the ‘busting’ of Rangers?
Interesting interview with one of the members of the panel which sat on the busting of Rangers Football Club, Gary Allan QC… It’s ahead of a Channel Four news piece tonight that could be very...
View ArticleIn journalism “claims towards neutrality and impartiality and objectivity are...
I’ve only met Roy Greenslade once. Ironically it was in the British embassy in Paris for a round table (PDF) on the future of UK and French journalism. He’s every bit as intelligent and convivial as he...
View ArticleCalumnies sting without disabling; and those stung are moved by hatred of...
“Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me.” Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People It’s taken two weeks for a mainstream journalist to commit to print some kind of defence of Sinn...
View Article“Roy is right to say there are journalists working for party political...
Roy Greenslade has another post up on the subject of Mairia Cahill case. [Ahem, with the comments closed. Whose decision was that I wonder? Ed]. He cites a letter writer in today’s Irish Times EE...
View Article‘Collusion’ was RUC strategy, not RUC failing: #Loughinisland
State collusion was a ‘significant feature’ in a loyalist gun attack in Loughinisland in June 1994, according to the latest report published today by the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. You can...
View Article“Better to criminalise rather than politicise.”
Here’s something you might have missed last week. In an interestingly timed, if much belated, intervention in the Guardian, professor of journalism at City University, self-declared Sinn Féin...
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