Dr. John Horgan has been announced (14.AUG.2007) as Ireland’s first Press Ombudsman.

The Press Council’s press release statement can be viewed here.

“The key function of the new Press Ombudsman will be to investigate and adjudicate complaints made by members of the public against newspapers and magazines. A new Code of Practice has been agreed by the press industry,and this code will be the framework against which all complaints are considered.”

The Irish Times reference the appointment here (subscription rqd).
Breaking News.ie have a note here as does the Irish Independent, the Belfast Telegraph and RTÉ.ie.

John is a co-editor of a newly published book Mapping Irish Media: Critical Explorations. He has also authored Broadcasting and Public Life:RTE News and Current Affairs, 1926-1997(2004) and Irish Media: A Critical History Since 1922 (2001).

John’s other publishing career can be viewed on wikipedia.org.

John’s academic biographical profile from DCU can still be viewed here (John has retired from DCU since 2006).

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Don’t blame advertisers for our children’s problems

Far from corrupting the young, our industry is helping to educate them, says Marina Palomba

Thursday August 9, 2007, The Guardian

Helen Pidd’s article implied throughout that advertisers are complicit in seeking ways to circumvent the latest strict rules on the content of advertising targeted at children (We are coming for your children, July 31). Having attended a marketing conference about advertising to children, Pidd states that “brands are using [new techniques] to work ‘creatively’ with the law”, and reports advertisers joking about going back “to the good old days” when companies could run TV campaigns such as “Don’t forget the fruit gums, mum”. When these commercials were aired, though, Britain did not have an obesity problem. Today these adverts are prevented from appearing around any children’s programmes.

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