http://oconallstreet.com/2008/06/02/belfast-telegraph-and-business/ Borderless thoughts on Public Relations, Public Affairs and anything else that matters from Conall McDevitt, MD of Weber Shandwick in Northern Ireland Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:59:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://oconallstreet.com/2008/06/02/belfast-telegraph-and-business/#comment-2795 Robert BALLANTINE Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:46:45 +0000 http://oconallstreet.com/2008/06/02/belfast-telegraph-and-business/#comment-2795 It's encouraging to know that somebody in N.I. actually cares about business journalism but the standard at the BT has been consistently mediocre to the point of embarrassment as long as I can remember. How can you take a newspaper's business coverage seriously when it ranks its Top 100 companies by numbers employed. I would accept that the Irish News is a cut above its rivals but none of them have evolved much beyond the facile job counting that has passed for business journalism here. This is probably an inevitable consequence of public sector dependency: that is to say business is merely an alternative job creation scheme and is of no further interest to anyone. It’s encouraging to know that somebody in N.I. actually cares about business journalism but the standard at the BT has been consistently mediocre to the point of embarrassment as long as I can remember. How can you take a newspaper’s business coverage seriously when it ranks its Top 100 companies by numbers employed.
I would accept that the Irish News is a cut above its rivals but none of them have evolved much beyond the facile job counting that has passed for business journalism here. This is probably an inevitable consequence of public sector dependency: that is to say business is merely an alternative job creation scheme and is of no further interest to anyone.

]]> http://oconallstreet.com/2008/06/02/belfast-telegraph-and-business/#comment-2779 jer Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:22:16 +0000 http://oconallstreet.com/2008/06/02/belfast-telegraph-and-business/#comment-2779 The Belf. Tele has a very limited local focus for a business market essentially just northern Ireland. Do you anticipate there is a market for papers like the business post to expand their portfolio in N.Ireland as north-south trade develops even further? The Belf. Tele has a very limited local focus for a business market essentially just northern Ireland. Do you anticipate there is a market for papers like the business post to expand their portfolio in N.Ireland as north-south trade develops even further?

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