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Irish News Media Awards - Are there any?

  • 11-08-2008 4:16pm
    #1
    ODS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 380 ✭✭


    ESB used to sponsor news awards, but not any more :(

    Other than Colman Byrne's student news media awards, I'm not aware of any.
    NUJ got a call from me on the same - but, they're not aware of any either!

    I am all too painfully aware about the dumbing-down of "real" news in favour of soft-sell celebrity sh1te, unchallenged regurgitated press releases, etc - but really this is getting ridiculous if there aren't awards anymore for "proper" hard news stories in the public interest... I hope I'm wrong on this one and that there are prestigious awards, so if so,

    What awards are there - and how can one go about filing copy, as it were?

    Thanks in advance :)


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  • #2
    Rob Carry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭Rob Carry


    There is the Media and Multicultural Awards that has a couple of media awards -

    http://www.metroeireann.com/index.ph...tent&task=view

    but that's it as far as I know. It's crazy really, that there's nothing else. It's a whopper gap in the market for someone who has experience of putting on events.


  • #3
    jdivision
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭jdivision


    ESB pulled sponsorship of the awards a couple of years ago and it died with that. They were a joke anyway, one guy won with an article that he rewrote from the Telegraph.
    There is a Business Journalists Awards thing run by Smurfit School of Business and Lochlann Quinn and while they seem a bit better there was again a nominee, one of whose submissions was a rewrite of a story that had already been in the Sundays. Very strange. Basically the judging panels seem to do no research into the originality of the story.


  • #4
    gaf1983
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭gaf1983


    Regarding radio journalism, The PPI Radio Awards have categories for best News Story, News Programme and Current Affairs Programme.


  • #5
    santosubito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 495 ✭✭santosubito


    gaf1983 wrote: »
    Regarding radio journalism, The PPI Radio Awards have categories for best News Story, News Programme and Current Affairs Programme.

    I was a judge in two or three catergories in them a few years ago: it made me determined never to enter any awards scheme ever, ever again. Absolute subjective nonsense.


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