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What will O'Brien and O'Reilly junior mean for INM?

  • 19-03-2009 12:36AM
    #1
    Gekko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭


    Surprised that none of the usual suspects have posed this question on here.

    I'm wondering if they'll:
    - invest in a better online presence for the newspapers, based on the perhaps optimistic premise that DO'B and GO'R understand new media
    - make any radical changes to the layout of the Indo or the SIndo and perhaps some of their content
    - try to cut costs even further although at INM they seem to pretty much cut to the bone already
    - find a buyer for the Indy in Britain or come up with an effective strategy to try and increase its circulation

    What d'y'all think?


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  • #2
    thusspakeblixa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭thusspakeblixa


    I'd say they'd be looking at increasing the online presence of the Indo/Sindo anyway. Maybe along the lines of the Guardian in the UK. I'd hope that they'll change some of the content in the Indo/Sindo to make it a serious rival to the Times (in my eyes it is second-rate in quality and layout).


  • #3
    jmcc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭jmcc


    Well one thing could be the reduction in the control of O'Reilly and his family over INM. There is a big financial deadline looming in May this year for INM and the banks may have been less than impressed with O'Reilly senior's performance and want to see evidence of change.

    Reorientating the Sindo would take a lot of work and it would involve some of its "journalists" being culled in an effort to drive the newspaper upmarket. If the Sunday Times decides to cut its cover price for the next few months, the effect on the Sindo could be devastating.

    The Sunday Tribune may be terminated as it seems to be a moneypit into which money was poured in an effort to deter the Irish Times from entering the Sundays market (though the Irish Times might have problems of its own). I think that under O'Brien, there will be a lot of cost-benefit analysis. I'd expect to see a lot more cuts, enforced salary cuts for remaining journos, no more freelancers and a lot more emphasis on online operations.

    Regards...jmcc

    Regards…jmcc



  • #4
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,120 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    More cuts, restructuring or what every you want to call it your self.


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