Des Gibson is three years shy of 50 but, when he speaks about the early days of his 30-year career in media, it sounds like an altogether different world. His mother was a copy taker at The Irish Press and a personal assistant to the paper’s editor Tim Pat Coogan. Her job involved managing dozens of other copy takers, all sitting by the phones transcribing stories from the paper’s network of writers. As a teenager, he was a messenger boy in the paper, frantically bringing sheets of papers between departments and then to the hot metal printing press.  As a…

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