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Gerry Lennon is leaving his management role at Mediahuis after more than 40 years in the newspaper business. The quintessential ad man, who once combed Dublin’s Capel Street looking for furniture shop business, became one of the most successful figures in Irish media.

AI such as GPT-4 will enable cheaper, more ambitious movie special effects, says Framestore’s William Sargent. He sees this as another step in the evolving world of knowledge-based jobs.

Diaries alleged in the 1980s to have been written by Adolf Hitler portrayed him as knowing little about the ongoing Holocaust. This was the main clue that the notebooks were fake.

Alan Esslemont is at the helm of TG4’s ambition to build status for the Irish language and halt Ireland’s transition to a monolingual state. A Scottish national, he is a determined figure and his big idea is already coming to fruition.

The fear in the newspaper industry is that the retail model will eventually break down, and they will run out of retailers even before they run out of print readers.

RTÉ has appointed three new journalists to report on previously ignored global issues, the latest to receive backing from the Department of Foreign Affairs, and Green Party ministers have allocated funding to broadcasts about climate change. Personal experience shows the limits of this model.

The account was the subject of a Norwich Pharmacal order taken by a journalist to force Twitter to reveal the identity of the person behind it.

An analysis of the performance of Metropolitan Films, one of the country’s most commercially successful television and film productions companies, confirms that the industry is both highly cyclical and highly dependent on tax credits.

In 2018, recent graduate Niamh Tallon started a website to write about women’s sports. Little did she know that her hobby would turn into one of Ireland’s fastest-growing sports media brands. She talks about monetising her platform and where Her Sport is headed.

Devin Sean Martin and Tom Lyons were also among the winners at the prestigious awards, chaired by former Penneys’ executive director Breege O’Donoghue.