Media
Ian Guider: A strong Irish media sector is vital and can only thrive through a series of mergers
Attempt by Mediahuis to buy online news outlet TheJournal makes commercial sense, but such a concentration in ownership would have raised eyebrows
There has probably never been a greater time when a strong, independent, media has been this vital to democracy both here and abroad.
It is equally true that there has never been a time like this when the media has been in such perilously weak financial health. That is true for all media, whether it’s printed, online or broadcast.
It was unsurprising then that Mediahuis, formally Independent News & Media, the biggest publisher in this ...