Newspapers in Ireland - Bits from a presentation

Published: June 27, 2008, 11:40 am

Tags: irishblogs, ireland, media, irish newspapers, newsroom ie

I gave a talk as Conchango last Friday on the present and future of newspapers. (oh and Tom wants a free link to his blog). Nobody remembers what I said exactly as I hid my lack of insight by using XKCD comic strips in each slide to distract them. (Never fails to work) Google Trends now allows you to see rough site visit information (though many think the data can be way out) but again it’s good for rough estimates. If you log into it you can see the numbers as per the screencaps. If you click the images you’ll see better versions of the images. Here’s a Trends screencap of visitors to the main Irish Newspaper sites. Oddly, the Examiner’s Breaking News website gets more visits than their main site. I’m sure the fact the Examiner couldn’t stick with a...Irish national newspapers not in decline Blurred KeysGoogle Trends for Websites: boards.ie, ireland.com, independent.ie CloudlandsSee 0 more posts on this topic: Losing Readership, Google

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