NewsWhip, the Irish tech start-up company launched in 2012, today announces a move to new Dublin headquarters and the 100% expansion of its workforce. From March 22nd, 2016 NewsWhip will be located at NewsWhip House on Merrion Square. The move to the 4 story 200 year old Georgian building facilitates the expansion of the company’s […]
Malachy Browne is our guest on today’s podcast. With a solid background in both journalism and technology, he worked for Village magazine and co-founded Politico.ie before joining Storyful as News Editor. In December he joined international news startup Reported.ly, where he is Managing Editor and Europe Anchor. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download […]
Today’s podcast is an interview with blogger, student journalist, and encryption advocate Tommy Collison. Currently in his second year at New York University where he majors in journalism, Tommy is well known in Irish blogging circles where he has been active since he was 12. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: […]
We featured Russell Brand’s cover of Parklife earlier this week – a collaboration with Irish band, the Rubberbandits. Afterwards he tweeted that he planned to address the Irish Water controversy. Now he has: [youtube]http://youtu.be/nV7KojDB87o[/youtube] It’s a bit of a rant, and as you might expect, he’s a little behind the curve on Irish politics. There’s also the […]
Tráthnóna inniu ag a 6 a chlog, seolfar Tuairisc.ie: an tseirbhís nuachta idirlín tré mheán na Gaeilge. Tá an tseirbhís maoinithe faoi chonradh le Foras na Gaeilge. Is é Seán Tadhg Ó Gairbhí, a bhí in a eagarthóir ar Foinse, tráth, an t-eagarthóir ar an suíomh nua. An mhí seo chaite, sheol RTÉ seirbhís nua idirlín […]
Mark Little was an inspiring winner of the Dot IE Net Visionary Award on Friday night. There’s been a lot positive comment on the video of his speech, and that of IIA CEO Joan Mulvihill. Afterwards he gave an interview to Technology.ie. I reminded him that, when he founded Storyful, nobody knew what a “social media news agency” was. […]
Aine Kerr, Managing Editor of Storyful, is our guest on today’s podcast (15:59; 9MB; MP3). Storyful calls itself “the world’s first social media news agency”. Founded by ex-RTE anchor Mark Little in 2010, it was acquired by News Corp in 2013 and has offices in Dublin, New York and Hong Kong. “When everyone is a publisher […]
