Jennifer O’Connell wrote a piece on page 5 of the Sunday Business Post’s Agenda magazine today about the problems facing the newspaper industry. It’s interesting for two reasons: first, it’s a working journalist in the Irish media writing about it, and second, it’s published in the main column space of the magazine, bringing it into the mainstream.

Unfortunately, I wouldn’t exactly call it insightful or ground-breaking.

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It’s been a busy few weeks, and I’ve yet to write about the fact that on the 3rd March, I was elected as Editor of Trinity News for the coming year. This is a great opportunity, and over the coming months, I will not only be far more active in student journalism, but I’ll be developing a whole new skillset too. I though I’d share some of the things I put in my application and what I’ll be doing over the next few months.

Firstly, I’m a very lucky man to get this job in particular. Trinity News is an amazing college newspaper. Almost two years ago now, then-editor Gearoid O’Rourke created a Staff Manual, an excellent document which essentially worked as a policy manual for the paper. In his introduction, he wrote:

TRINITY NEWS is not a “student newspaper”. It does not aspire to such a lowly goal. This newspaper aspires to being a broadsheet newspaper of the highest quality that also happens to be produced by students. Remember this and your contribution will always be of the standard required.

Now, Gearoid’s year wasn’t perfect. I’m sure mine won’t be either. But the above quotation pretty much summarises the main strength of Trinity News: a constant reach for the highest professional standards. He and my other predecessors have left me with some big shoes to fill, and here’s some of the things I plan on.

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See photos in this Flickr Set.

Due to a late essay, I never got to write my intended blog post about the Student Media Awards which took place on Thursday April 2nd in the Mansion House in Dublin. Mark Coughlan and Cian Ginty were quick off the mark, and I’ d recommend reading their posts to get a sense of the night. Personally, it was excellent, made even more so by the fact that my friends did particularly well.

It’s also a great way to meet the college media from around the country, but it’s difficult to find the time during the course of the evening. A few more meet-ups might help us all learn from one another and do better. But how to start?

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Recently, I was ensnared one evening by YouTube, and spent far too much of my time watching Steve Jobs’ keynote speeches from every MacWorld Expo I could find.

Now, this might sound like a terrible waste of time, but it was in fact an eye-opening experience as to exactly why Apple is such a strong company despite such a small market share.

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