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IN 2020, THEJOURNAL.IE will celebrate 10 years of delivering timely, impartial and fresh news to Irish digital consumers – and it has a new editorial line-up to lead it into its next decade.
Susan Daly, who became Editor of TheJournal.ie in mid-2011, has moved to a newly-created role of Managing Editor across Journal Media, leading strategy and innovation across the company’s key publications, including TheJournal.ie, The42, Fora, and new investigative platform Noteworthy.ie. Before directing the team that grew TheJournal.ie from digital start-up to market leader, she worked as a news editor in national newspapers and is a graduate of the Sulzberger Leadership Program at Columbia University, New York.
The newly appointed Editor of TheJournal.ie is Sinéad O’Carroll. She has worked at TheJournal.ie for the past eight years, and became News Editor in 2013. Previously, she worked in MVP Publications in New York City and Whitespace Publishing in Dublin. She is also a regular presenter and contributor across a range of national television and radio news, current affairs and sports programmes.
Our Deputy Editor is Christine Bohan, who has been at TheJournal.ie since 2011 and works on breaking news, audience development, factchecks and podcasts. Christine has worked at The Guardian, the Irish Times and the Sunday Tribune and is an occasional lecturer in journalism at Dublin City University.
Daragh Brophy has been appointed News Editor at TheJournal.ie. He has been with the publication since 2013 and previously served as an Assistant News Editor. He started his career in radio – initially with 98FM in 2005, and over the following eight years went on to work with Independent Network News and as a newsreader and reporter with Q102.
Aoife Barry is Assistant News Editor. Formerly a reporter for the Kildare Nationalist, Evening Echo and Sligo Weekender, and currently a contributor to shows on RTÉ, Newstalk and Today FM, she has been with TheJournal.ie since 2011 and has 13 years experience in journalism across digital, print, TV and radio.
To complete the editorial team, Laura Byrne, formerly of Storyful news agency, joins TheJournal.ie as Assistant News Editor with responsibility for the Voices column. She brings a wealth of experience of social media verification, as well as podcasting and broadcast experience, having also worked for several years with Today FM as a news reporter and presenter.
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“TheJournal.ie has grown at a phenomenal pace in its first nine years of existence, both in audience and the strength of its journalistic output,” said Journal Media Managing Editor Susan Daly.
“From our early years as a disruptive force on the digital landscape, moving to becoming a main source of online news in Ireland, we have firmly established ourselves as a trusted brand for the Irish news consumer.
“This new and refreshed editorial team is primed to continue the innovation that our audience expects from TheJournal.ie, finding new and impactful ways to tell the stories that deserve to be heard and which matter to our users.”
Sinéad O’Carroll, Editor of TheJournal.ie, “From delivering breaking news to providing deep analysis and context, we will continue to provide our users with vital information and stories that they can trust in ways that they want to consume them – at a time when it could not be more important.
“Our Factcheck and Explainer projects, bolstered by our new podcasts, are critical products for our loyal users and we look forward to adding to that offering.”
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That photo shows them as happy as they are impartial.
@Mick Byrne: Why do you frequent a news source you consider biased?
@Rochelle: all news sources are biased, the journal is probably the worst for bias – and they leave themselves open to ridicule by using terms like “impartiality” in this article, when they are no such thing.
They’re pro feminist, socially liberal and more akin to online activism than a reputable news outlet.
@Perlum Sprite: There is literally nothing wrong with being pro feminist or socially liberal unless you’re a terrible human being.
@Rochelle: I don’t inhabit safe space echo chambers or try to create them with malicious reporting unlike some. Comments can provide counter points, context & opinion to sponsored narrative, poorly researched stories or plain infactual distraction. Why are you here if you can’t accept diversity of opinion?
@Mick Byrne: do you like the “Token Male”?
@Sean Kelly: tbh it’s Columbia university that rings alarm bells for me.
@Mick Byrne: Your use of the word “infactual” reduces your argument to rubble!
@Rochelle: He needs something to moan about
@Terrence Edwards: Oh you’re all for diversity, but not diversity of opinion
Fair play to the Journal. However, I would suggest its the comments section that brings the masses.
@Clifford Brennan: and it really, desperately misses the balancing power of red thumbs. Really get sick and tired of having to engage with the comments below the line at some point.
No gender balance then? As for impartiality, lol!
@Perlum Sprite: Found the snowflake.
@Mick O’Shea: if it was 5 men and 1 woman there would be some whinging
@Niall dunne: There’s still some whinging…
Will this mean that you will actually do journalism and stop ripping off other news sources?
You should try embellishing in articles too. Even the Indo has better info.
@Rebecca De Stanleigh: if you are that unhappy with The Journal why don’t you go elsewhere for your news?
@Louise Tracey: comments Louise. Comments.
@Louise Tracey: thanks for the concern though!
@Rebecca De Stanleigh: Ah here! What are you expecting from a digital news app?! That’s like expecting a gourmet burger from a chipper.
The Journal is essentially a news aggregator, and a decent one at that. If you’re looking for insightful, investigative journalism you’re in the wrong place.
You need to manage your own expectations. The Journal are doing a good job.
@Yzo Sirrius: I totally disagree with you. Journalists are journalists. Some better than others it appears.
@Rebecca De Stanleigh: no Rebecca, it is what it is: a copy and paste news site that depends on clickbait to generate revenue, with the occasional original article, which are actually superb sometimes. You get what you pay for and you pay nothing.
@Rebecca De Stanleigh: So you get a service for Free, you use it here, and still you give out about it. How unappreciative of you!
I say Thank You to TheJournal team and keep up the great work.
@Conoroconnor: you’re spot on with your analysis of what The Journal is. Basically a news aggregator, but in fairness, one of the better ones. If people like Rebecca expect real journalism, they need to go elsewhere, and expect to pay for it.
@Peter99: Did you just aggregate my comment? :):)
@Pat Mangan: If you get and eat a free ice-cream and you get food poisoning would you be appreciative of the free ice-cream ?
@Conoroconnor: Rebecca didnt say it wasnt what you said. Did you read the article ? Yes the Journal is as what ou said, but ist the Journal who are claiming to be Journalists and impartial and thats what I think Rebecca was querying
@Conoroconnor: Wonder when the first and last time a Journal (cough) journalist was out on the beat investigating a story ?
@Peter99: “Sinéad O’Carroll, Editor of TheJournal.ie, “From delivering breaking news to providing deep analysis and context, we will continue to provide our users with vital information and stories that they can trust in ways that they want to consume them – at a time when it could not be more important.#
So why let the Journal claim the manure in this article like my copied quot then ??
@Gowon Geter: And the award for “Worst Analogy of 2019″ goes to….
Congrats , well done on success to date and best of luck for thr the next stage and future developments – as a regular reader and user of Journal I would like to offer some constructive criticism which should be taken as reader feedback on things that The Journal might wish to consider
1. There are occasions when multiple stories are published in sequence with comments closed for various reasons. Last week on one day the top 5 topical stories were all comments closed. It defeats the purpose of an interactive news source if too many times the comment stories are closed.
2. You should try explain the policy for comment closing to readers a bit better. The perception is that you are manipulating the news agenda by closing comments that may be unfavourable to Government or leading Business figures – by playing the legal card
3. Deleting comments is also a very erratic and increasingly problematic area. There are plenty of times debates slide into juvenile name calling and are rightly deleted – but there are many many many occasions when readers are having comments deleted as they appear they are not politically correct enough. Opinion is not something that the Journal seems to tolerate very often seemingly prefer a more ‘sanitised’ ‘disney’ version of opinions are welcomes whereas anything slightly non PC gets deleted.
4. Some article are ridiculously shorty. I saw one ‘article’ no more than 10 lines – equating to a cut and paste of a news item – hardly seems worthwhile to have a journal news room if a 10 line article passes as a news story – the comments sections reflect this on very regular occassions
and Finally , ‘safe legal card’ gets played an awful lot in recent years – lawyers will always tell media companies not to take risk of exposing various articles to comment and legal exposure and undoubtedly we have a very challenging culture for media publishing – but often this card is played too often – and readers are unable to comment on major stories which are being covered – in the past week Darragh Murphy , Lisa Smith – anything to do with Direct Provision – all get deleted and closed far too often – which leaves a frustrating reader and user experience.
Otherwise all is great ;-) ….well done on the new podcast and heavy news initiatives etc and keep up the good work. Take the feedback in the manner it is intended. Or else just delete my comment ;-0
Finally ,
@Dave Hammond: It would be hilarious if they just deleted your comment :)
@Dave Hammond: Good points well made Dave. Do hope they appreciate having a committed follower willing to take the time to offer a reasoned critic.
@Dave Hammond: Well said.
@Gary Sheahan: “Critique”…ironic.
@Dave Hammond: they are not gonna read it, and by chance they do they will roll their eyes and ignore you
@Dave Hammond: nice feedback and well put
@Dave Hammond: Totally agreed with you there, yesterday they deleted a comment of mine which was just the headline of an Indo article and the link to it.
Previously found that a so called poster was an actual jornal admin amd they had the power to delete their own pro Leo comments when it sparked a huge backlash when it had the un-intended affect
@Dave Hammond: Well said.
The number of articles with comments closed is far more than it should be. Sometimes it seems like they don’t want perpetrators of particular crimes to be condemned in the comments – so they just turn them off – even though sentencing may have passed and there is no legal reason to do.
Do a poll of who will last the longest.
@Paddy Norton: god no they do too many polls as is.
@Paddy Norton: Comment of the week.
No diversity of thought at all there. all singing from the pro EUstablishmen neoliberal hymn sheet.
Where is the balance? There are no blondes, baldies, Auburn and red heads in this editorial team #folicallyunbalanced #toomanybrunettes
Fantastic! Love the Journal.ie – keep up the good work !
@Woman On the Up:OK Sinead.
Impartial? Didn’t know you did satire as well
Can they spell and use correct punctuation?
@Brian Ó Dálaigh: no need. Its already been checked by whoever they copy and paste the article from.
Very happy looking bunch.
Please bring back the Daily Edge or something similar
How times have changed. There’s a token male in line up.
I hope some of these journalists are somewhat sceptical in outlook, questioning and challenging the status quo, questioning their own views in particularly.
@acallkelly: Ha ha ha, are you serious?
It hardly seems ten years – so much has changed in that decade. Thanks for several good reads and updates. Keep it up!
Why not bring back The Daily Edge, eh?
Why do you all look so sad?
Using them selves as click bait! Fair play… taking one for the team
TheJournal is partly impartial and impartially partial. A 70 : 30 balance is not unusual, a 51 : 49 balance incredible.
If they are so impartial, why do they delete comments in the comment section pointing out the truth? LMAO
Inb4 comment gets deleted
so much for gender balance. If that was a photo of five men and one woman, you would get a migraine from all the feministas going ape.
A lone man not very diverse?
Bring back daily edge or delete it off the app!
Why does RTE not include the journal in its review of the newspapers after the morning new bulletins?
That picture sums up “Journalism” these days
I was wondering what Sinead O Carroll was doing since she left B’Witched..
Good luck to you all and well done. This is where I get most of my news and it’s nice to be allowed to “rant”, now and again.
Clean up yr comment section. Do yr due diligence with FB.
Impartial my whole!
Impartial , my whole!
Wish of luck with the new arrangement
your success is due to the ability to link up through facebook in the early stages. breakingnews.ie was the place to go but now regarding comments , it is a ghost town.
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