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

Mediahuis, formally Independent News & Media, had been in talks to acquire TheJournal; had they succeeded, it might have been positive for jobs and stability but questionable for journalistic diversity

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 ...