The Sunday World has relaunched their website, sundayworld.com, recently.
The content includes columns, gossip, and reviews. They also have online-only content from gossip site PerezHilton.com. And there's video from Balcony TV, along with other video clips of games and films, and 'funnies'.
But no news.
The roll over banner advert currently running across the site shows Paul Williams, the newspaper's crime editor, saying - as ever - he'll be watching the criminals. That's entertaining at least.
Half of the decisions published so far by the Press
Ombudsman relate to model Katy French, reports the Sunday Business Post. Read the article here, or the Ombudsman's and Press Council of Ireland's decisions in full here.
The Irish Times reported yesterday that the Irish Health and Safety Authority and gardai have told Dublin newspaper publishers to stop distributing at road junctions in the city.
Freesheets Metro and Herald AM as well as the Evening Herald are affected.
Last June the Evening Herald featured a story which announced that people moving between stopped traffic could be a hazard.
That story was referring to window screen washers, but it now seams the HSA think newspaper sellers and distributes are also in danger, while the police are also concerned at any possible affect on traffic movement.
University Collage Cork is to hold
a journalism conference next month which will ask if newspapers are on
their last leg and in danger of being replaced by new media.
The event will include speakers from newspapers and new media.
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The editor of an Irish Sunday newspaper said she was “still as idealistic” as the day she started journalism even thought her business editor was sacked recently in questionable circumstances.
In the January edition of the Dubliner magazine Noirin Hegarty, editor of the Sunday Tribune, said “I love what we do at the Sunday Tribune. I’m still as idealistic as the day I started in journalism and I believe in its role as the fourth estate”.
Asked how she can remain idealistic after the questionable sacking of her former business editor, Hegarty said “Thank you for your interest in the Sunday Tribune. This is an internal company matter bound by a confidentiality agreement. It is more complicated than it appears and I won’t be commenting further”.
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