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NewsCorp Buys Storyful

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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Friday 6 December 2013 Irish newspaper front pages

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

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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