The one job title Harry Owen craved was CEO of City AM, the London-based financial newspaper he joined back in its start-up days. The road to the top job was rocky, but he's finally running a profitable business.
IDA Ireland sought contracts for media monitoring, creative advertising, graphic design and PR in service of attracting FDI from foreign markets, in particular the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Japan, China, and South Korea.
This year’s most-coveted awards in business journalism included a special recognition for our colleague who exposed some of the biggest money scandals of the past 50 years.
The majority of television watched in Ireland is imported, mostly from the UK. Public clamour for indigenous programming doesn’t match the private choices made in Irish homes.
It was a court case that took nine years to go to trial. O’Brien has now lost it, after a “formidable” battle.
Garry Moroney has scaled and sold multiple technology companies. Now, in a bold move, The Irish Times has turned to the 58-year-old entrepreneur to lead the organisation. Who is Moroney, and what can be expected from him?
Big hitters like Dómhnal Slattery were convinced there was serious money to be made in Ireland's local newspaper business. But as ambitious new players emerged and legacy owners wrestled with huge offers, a brutal financial reckoning lay ahead.
James Morrissey, Denis O'Brien's spokesman, has told a jury that a "fractious history” between republicans and INM was behind a 2016 media report commissioned by a Sinn Féin MEP and criticising the businessman.
Alan English has just joined The Currency after a career in newspapers, and next week he will share a three-part investigation — the untold inside story of the boom, bubble and bust that reshaped Ireland’s local media.
A leaked memo alleging bias at the BBC spurred the exits of two of its most senior staffers on Monday. But media experts say suggestions of partiality are wide of the mark, and there are lessons for RTÉ.
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