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Culturing Audiences | Tomas Ó’Siochain
Tomás Ó’Siocháin, a programme editor for TG4 and RTÉ Nuacht, gave the fourth presentation of six at Media Moves examining the work and responsibilities of news editors.
Editors simultaneously guess what the audience desires, and nurture their appetites for media content. How do they balance these seemingly opposing responsibilities? And where do they source their stories.
Global stories retold
Michael McCaughan, a freelance journalist with over 20 years experience of covering development stories, gave the third presentation of six at Media Moves examining the untold stories behind the major global development issues of our times.
Clare Herbert: is a Student of NUIM and a Youth Editor of SpunOut.ie. This post is an extract from a presentation by Clare at Media Moves (FRI.08.JUN.2007, Galway). See here for Clare’s blogged review of Media Moves.
Youth representation in the Media:
what works, what could work better
Listen to Clare’s presentation:
Introduction
I disagree with the term ‘young people’, as if we are separate from the rest of society, destined to be left in a corner and excluded from media participation. Besides if we’re ‘young people’, does that make the rest of you ‘old’ people?
Today, young people are highly media literate, but that’s not to say well educated in terms of the media.
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Who are the Media and what am I accusing them of?
Extract from a speech delivered by Rose Tuelo Brock, columnist with the Galway City Tribune, delivered at the Media Moves Conference, Galway, June 2007.
For me, the Media is made up of the reporting, investigating, the commenting and the opinion and analysis contingents. I acknowledge that the Media is represented by people belonging to a society and are therefore a product of the society in which they find themselves.
However, I still am of the opinion that it is the duty of the media to be objective, to allow itself to see right and wrong when either is done and to report with as little bias as possible.
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