The DCU Journalism Society will hold its Annual General Meeting on Monday 12th April from 6.30pm in Room CG12 of the Henry Grattan Building. The AGM will be addressed by RTE Newscaster Bryan Dobson. At the AGM constitutional amendments will be voted upon. If you have any suggested changes please submit them to steve@journosoc.com. In [...]
On Monday 1st March Mr. Richard Waghorne, Chief Political Commentator for the Daily Mail, will address the society on political commentary and will kick of a debate on the need for a conservative media outlet in Ireland. This talk will take place in CG12 of the Henry Grattan Building at 6.30pm. This is one of [...]
Broadcaster and author Mark Little will formally accept honourary membership of the Society on Monday 8th March. Mr. Little began is career in journalism working for The Sunday Business Post. He was then hired as a TV reporter for RTÉ News and Current Affairs in 1991. By 1995 he was RTÉ’s first Washington Correspondent.
The talk by Alan Johnston, BBC journalist, has confirmed for 22nd Feb. in CG 12 of the Henry Grattan Building at 6.30pm. Please be advised that early arrival at this event is essential. Media queries to steve@journosoc.com. Colm O’Gorman, chief executive of Amnesty International Ireland will be chairing the discussion. The Alan Johnston talk is [...]
Prof. John Horgan, Press Ombudsman of Ireland will address the Dublin City University Society Journalism Society on Feb. 18th at 6.30pm. Light refreshments will be served afterwards. Venue: The Henry Grattan Building, 1st floor, Room C104, Dublin City University. Media queries to Steve Conlon, Tel: 086 879 36 54.
Broadcaster and author Mark Little will formally accept honourary membership of the Society on Monday 8th March.
Mr. Little began is career in journalism working for The Sunday Business Post. He was then hired as a TV reporter for RTÉ News and Current Affairs in 1991. By 1995 he was RTÉ’s first Washington Correspondent.
By Kate Patterson
A third year DCU journalism student, Stephen Mangan, has won the Hugh Cudlipp award for promising young journalists – beating out students from across Britain and Ireland.
Mangan, who says he was “delighted to have won the award,” was awarded a £1,000 prize at the annual Hugh Cudlipp Lecture in the London College of Communication last month. Previously Mangan had also won the Irish Student Media award (Smedia) for Sports Writer of the Year for his work in the College View.
ource of information by Peter Horrocks, the new director of BBC Global News who took over last week. He said it was important for editorial staff to make better use of social media and become more collaborative in producing stories.
“This isn’t just a kind of fad from someone who’s an enthusiast of technology. I’m afraid you’re not doing your job if you can’t do those things. It’s not discretionary”, he is quoted as saying in the BBC in-house weekly Ariel.
Horrocks said that technology was changing journalism, adding that it was important for the BBC to leave a programme-based mindset behind and adapt to new technologies.
Campaigning journalists and media workers are to launch EXPOSE, a campaign aimed at “revealing the undemocratic and racist nature” of the British National Party.
The new campaign will tackle the BNP’s “attempts to construct a respectable public image” and support media workers who refuse to work on uncritical programmes or material, the group announced on Tuesday.
A libel action by businessman Dermot Desmond over an article published in Magill magazine 12 years ago was settled at the High Court yesterday.
Mr Desmond had sued Coliemore Publications Ltd, Vincent Browne, then editor of Magill, and journalist Ursula Halligan over a 1998 article.
Under yesterday’s settlement, an apology was read which was also told Mr Browne is to make a contribution to a charity nominated by Mr Desmond.
Full story here.
The talk by Alan Johnston, BBC journalist, has confirmed for 22nd Feb. in CG 12 of the Henry Grattan Building at 6.30pm. Please be advised that early arrival at this event is essential. Media queries to steve@journosoc.com.
Colm O’Gorman, chief executive of Amnesty International Ireland will be chairing the discussion.
The Alan Johnston talk is presented by the DCU Journalism Society, DCU Model UN and DCU Amnesty International.
This event is sponsored by the DCU President’s Office and the DCU Educational Trust.
