Storyful, the social news agency founded by former RTE anchor Mark Little, has been bought by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp for €25m. Founded in 2008, Storyful’s team of journalists work to find and verify user generated content of interest to media organisations, and help the owners of the content to monetise it. As the business […]
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Is There a Social Media Selection Bias in Modern Media? [Video]
Elaine Larkin is a journalist and copywriter and she brought a professional media background to bear on her participation in Congregation, last month in County Mayo. She points out that the people you interview or quote for an article or blog post can help you to promote that story as well. It’s in their interest […]
Upworthy Takes Viral to a Whole New Level
Those Upworthy posts are certainly viral, but according to the latest data, when it comes to the number of Facebook shares per article, there’s simply no comparison with anything else. Newswhip have published their monthly report on the most viral publishers for November, based on data from their Spike Database. The Huffington Post got 27 […]
RIP Nelson Mandela
Irish newspaper front pages are dominated by the death of Nelson Mandela. via RTE Radio 1 Tomorrow mornings front pages (via @MikeHogan4FM) pic.twitter.com/OPwC04pqNk — RTÉRadio1 (@RTERadio1) December 6, 2013
Irish Radio International, from Cork to the World [Video]
Moira O’Brien is co-founder of Irish Radio International, an online radio station based in Cork which caters especially to the Irish Diaspora abroad and the new Irish at home. We met her at the launch event for TEDxCorkWomen, which takes place next Friday at the Firkin Crane Theatre in Cork. Blacknight is a sponsor of […]
Amnesty Ireland ad Banned on TV, OK on YouTube
As the Constitutional Convention is currently considering how Bunreacht na hÉireann might be reformed, Amnesty Ireland have launched a campaign around a ‘TV’ ad designed to lobby for Economic, Social and Cultural rights to be guaranteed in the Constitution. All part of a healthy political debate, one might say. Except that there are laws regulating […]
Agriland Reaps a Digital Harvest [Video]
Agriland is a website focused on the agribusiness sector which launched this summer and has seen exponential traffic growth in the past few months. The brainchild of Cormac Farrelly, he filled us in on its genesis when we caught up with him at Blog Awards Ireland, where Agriland were sponsors of the Great Outdoors category. […]
File It In The Shredder [Podcast #29]
This week’s guest is Francesco Cetraro of Afilias. From their headquarters in Dublin, Afilias run top level domains such as .info and .mobi and also provide the GoMobi mobile website builder tools (currently available on a 30-day free trial from Blacknight!) For this podcast, Francesco joins us from his home in Sweden, with Michele in Carlow […]