Blathnaid Healy

Carrying on his father’s torch, News Corp’s Europe and Asia Chief James Murdoch has taken a swipe at the BBC at the Edinburgh Television Festival.

Read more about it here and here.

The New York Times’ has reported that The Washington Post has picked Marcus Brauchli, a former top editor at the Wall Street Journal, as its new Executive Editor.

For the NYT article click here

The Washington Post’s press release (including Brauchli’s biog) click here

I have moved back to Ireland and I am now living in Dublin. A couple of months after I graduated I made the decision to return to this side of the Atlantic. For the time being I would like to work in Ireland or the UK, so the job hunt is in full swing. In the interim I am working as a freelance journalist.

It is such an interesting time to be working in this industry. There is so much change underway. Some publications are changing the type of news they report, others are boosting their online presence, but I am not sure anyone really knows where we are headed.

When I left Dublin in August 2005 there was the usual array of morning newspapers: the three broadsheets (The Irish Times, The Irish Independent and the Irish Examiner) as well as several tabloid publications (The Daily Star, The Irish Mirror, The Irish Sun and the Irish Daily Mail). When I arrived home, just over a year later, commuter newspapers seemed to have taken over. Cars of trains were now littered with these papers when rush hour ended.

Certainly this method of delivering news seemed to pop up very quickly, but is it going to be around for the long haul?