Media podcast by TV-and-radio producer/director Pat O'Mahony in conjunction with his Off Message media blog based on personal experience and coffee-fuelled observation
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Episode 21: Jolt-Off Message #5 Sara Creta justice
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In Off Message #21, the fifth of five special media-curious podcasts in conjunction with Jolt (see joltetn.eu), a project coordinated by the FuJo Institute at Dublin City University funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 programme, Sara Creta discusses with broadcaster and DCU graduate Pat O'Mahony her very personal Jolt research into communities living i…
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Episode 20: Jolt-Off Message #4 Lucia Mesquita collaboration
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In Off Message #20, the fourth of five special media-curious podcasts in conjunction with Jolt (see joltetn.eu), a project coordinated by the FuJo Institute at Dublin City University funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 programme, Lucia Mesquita discusses with broadcaster and DCU graduate Pat O'Mahony her fascinating Jolt research into the often counter…
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Episode 19: Jolt-Off Message #3 Sophie Chauvet analytics
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In Off Message #19, the third of five special media-curious podcasts in conjunction with Jolt (see joltetn.eu), a project coordinated by the FuJo Institute at Dublin City University funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 programme, Sophie Chauvet discusses with broadcaster and DCU graduate Pat O'Mahony her revealing Jolt research into the often untrustwor…
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Episode 18: Jolt-Off Message #2 Elina Makri emotion
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In Off Message #18, the second of five special media-curious podcasts in conjunction with Jolt (see joltetn.eu), a project coordinated by the FuJo Institute at Dublin City University funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 programme, Elina Makri discusses with broadcaster and DCU graduate Pat O'Mahony her fascinating Jolt research into how human cognition …
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Episode 17: Jolt-Off Message #1 Dimitri Bettoni surveillance
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In Off Message #17, the first of five special media-curious podcasts in conjunction with Jolt (see joltetn.eu), a project coordinated by the FuJo Institute at Dublin City University funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 programme, Dimitri Bettoni discusses with broadcaster and DCU graduate Pat O'Mahony his eye-opening Jolt research into journalism, secur…
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In Off Message #16 Jon Williams, Managing Director of RTÉ News & Current Affairs, discusses over the internet with broadcaster Pat O'Mahony the massive changes RTÉ have implemented in the face of the Covid19 crisis, the lengths they've gone to to deal with any mental health issues their employees might now have, the unprecedented financial hit RTÉ …
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In Off Message #15 Ian Kehoe and Tom Lyons, the pair behind the new Irish business-news website, The Currency, discuss with Pat O'Mahony the ethos of their new venture and their plans for its long term future, the need for more diversity in the media, why being banned by Communicorp's radio stations was such a big deal, and loads more.…
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Episode 14: Trust Me, I'm A Journalist
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Has the media lost our trust? If so, what can it do to regain it? More importantly, should we ever actually fully trust our media?On the night of the pivotal Ireland-Denmark Euro 2020 qualifier down the road in the Aviva Stadium, a quartet of the good and the great of Irish media gathered in Whelan's on Dublin's Wexford St as part of the Dublin Pod…
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The thirteenth - lucky for us - Off Message podcast is with Baz Ashmawy, of '50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy' fame. In his central Dublin office he revealed the exact moment he knew a suit-wearing career in recruitment was not for him, the shock of being shut out of RTÉ, how subsequently not getting a radio gig was more than likely a blessing in disguis…
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Off Message #12 features political writer, Lise Hand, soon to be ex- of the Times Ireland edition parish. In Buswells Hotel, across the road from her major work haunt of Leinster House in Dublin, and in many ways over the years her office away from her office, she came clean on the life of the political hack, the impact of social media on the world…
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For the 11th media-curious Off Message podcast I dropped into the NUJ's Irish HQ in Dublin to talk all things media with the Irish Secretary of the journalists' trade union, Seamus Dooley, including the recent shooting dead of freelancer Lyra McKee in Derry, the lack of genuine media ownership diversity, their ongoing campaigns, fixing trust in jou…
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On a flying visit to his native Dublin, freelance journalist Philip O'Connor, the man behind his own media blog and podcast, the wonderfully titled Our Man In Stockholm, dropped by for the tenth media-savvy Off Message podcast.We chewed the fat on his attempt to crowdfund much of his journalism income, how he uses social media to generate work, his…
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As the Press Council of Ireland nears the end of its tenth year in operation, Press Ombudsman, Peter Feeney chats with Pat O'Mahony about the vagaries of dealing with complaints for both online and print publications, his previous lengthy career in RTE making programmes and overseeing their Freedom of Information activity, his love of local newspap…
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Just a year into her most high-profile radio job to date, the eighth media-curious Off Message podcast features Newstalk's Lunchtime Live presenter Ciara Kelly.During our 50-odd minute chat we chewed the media fat on debating extremists, social media bullying and detoxing, developing a media career without having to hustle, taking over a big show a…
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The seventh media-friendly Off Message podcast - Off Message #50 overall...hurrah! - is with Nadine O'Regan, Books and Arts Editor and current (no relation) Off Message columnist with the Sunday Business Post.During our chat, Nadine discussed how it felt to recently have her long-running Today FM show, Songs In The Key Of Life, rather unceremonious…
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The sixth media circus that is the Off Message podcast is with Michael O'Keeffe, CEO at the regulator of all Irish broadcasting - though thankfully not podcasts...not yet, anyway - the BAI, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.During our chat Michael revealed the BAI's origins in Ireland's murky pirate radio past and its planned next move into reg…
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The fifth media-curious Off Message podcast is with Deirdre O'Shaughnessy of Cork's 96fm. Editor of and regular fill-in presenter on their morning chat show, The Opinion Line with PJ Coogan, I was particularly interested to explore their different approach dealing with a local rather than a national audience and what kind of items work best for the…
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The fourth media-mad Off Message podcast is with the ubiquitous Norah Casey who has worked both here in Ireland and in the UK across all sectors in the media.She's run and owned numerous publishing ventures, she's presented her own radio and television programmes, she's managed a handful of online businesses and written a book of her hectic life to…
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The third Off Message media-mad podcast features Mark Little, a man who made his name in RTÉ in the 1990s before leaving to start the news-verifying Storyful in 2009 which he subsequently sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.During our chat he explained his latest venture, the news delivery app, Neva Labs, as well as revealing his own ever changing p…
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Episode 2 of the media-curious Off Message podcast features Susan Daly, editor of TheJournal.ie, and over the course of our chat we debated, discussed and dissected the impact of fake news, the existence of media bias, the role of an online news editor, sexual discrimination and harassment in the media, whether TheJournal.ie would ever charge for n…
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The debut Off Message podcast, featuring the media-related wit and wisdom of RTÉ 2fm's music-and-movie-mad Dave Fanning. Over the course of our chat Dave reminisces about his almost completely accidental career journey; he reveals how his RTÉ career hasn't exactly gone to plan and whether he'd ever ask U2 the hard questions; and he divulges his unc…
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