@IrishTimesLaura

@IrishTimes journalist and fan of words. Non-work tweets @LauraSlattery but not often here now.

 Tara Street, Dublin, Ireland
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New season on RTÉ: crime dramas, GAA docs and the return of ‘tricky’ comedy irishtimes.com/business/2024…

New season on RTÉ: crime dramas, GAA docs and the return of ‘tricky’ comedy

News verification strand Clarity and natural history series Ireland’s Coast on the line-up as board approves more projects in wake of RTÉ's multi-year funding deal

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Irish entertainment and media industry to expand to €7.6bn by 2028 irishtimes.com/business/2024…

Irish entertainment and media industry to expand to €7.6bn by 2028

Annual industry growth rate of 2.9 per cent will lag the global average, PwC report finds

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Pavel Durov’s arrest a landmark moment in holding social media to account irishtimes.com/business/2024…

Pavel Durov’s arrest a landmark moment in holding social media to account

Chief executive of Telegram messaging service was detained in France for failing to address crime on the app

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Look back in nostalgia: Oasis live forever even if 1990s music culture has not — this week’s column. irishtimes.com/media/2024/08…

Oasis reunion highlights the total collapse of the full-time music press

Printed tickets, CD singles, music journalism jobs, MTV – all have gone missing in action since the band’s peak

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VMTV will launch new streaming app Virgin Media Play in September irishtimes.com/business/2024…

VMTV will launch new streaming app Virgin Media Play in September

Revenge thriller Dead & Buried, the return of Gogglebox Ireland and Grá ar an Trá, and new series Life Actually among shows on Virgin’s autumn line-up

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Rocking on: Radio Nova proves the brightest star in Dublin music radio market — this week’s media column. irishtimes.com/business/2024…

Rocking on: Radio Nova proves the brightest star in Dublin music radio market

Irish-owned station’s share of listening has nudged ahead of rivals FM104, Sunshine 106.8 and Spin 1038

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Trouble has been brewing for Starbucks – can the new boss perk things up? irishtimes.com/business/2024…

Trouble has been brewing for Starbucks – can the new boss perk things up?

Planet Business: Disney prepares to defrost Frozen franchise, a change of judge in Musk’s advertiser lawsuit, and artists who have objected to Donald Trump using their music

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‘Tampon Tim’ nickname for Walz is not just Republicans being weird again irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/…

Laura Slattery: ‘Tampon Tim’ nickname for Walz is not just Republicans being weird again

Laura Slattery: From jokey monikers to ‘menstrual surveillance’ concerns, periods are now extra-politicised in US while remaining taboo almost everywhere

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Sky, Netflix, Virgin and sports: How to manage your TV and streaming expenses irishtimes.com/business/2024…

Sky, Netflix, Virgin and sports: How to manage your TV and streaming expenses

Special offers, contract savings and why you should try to swerve the new ‘streaming TV’ services if you like recording programmes

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Oliver Callan now has more listeners on Radio 1 than Ryan Tubridy did a year ago irishtimes.com/business/2024…

Oliver Callan now has more listeners on Radio 1 than Ryan Tubridy did a year ago

Pat Kenny’s listenership rises to fresh record on Newstalk as station claims its highest-ever market share

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Samsung’s Olympic selfie wheeze makes winners seem just like us irishtimes.com/business/2024…

Samsung’s Olympic selfie wheeze makes winners seem just like us

‘Victory Selfie’ taken at the end of the medal ceremonies at Paris 2024 is inspired product placement

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We are gradually becoming inured to technological messes irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/…

Laura Slattery: We are gradually becoming inured to technological s**tshows

The National Cyber Security Centre warns of a ‘far greater’ cyberattack risk over the next two years

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Global stock markets left on edge after Tokyo’s ‘Black Monday’ reprise irishtimes.com/business/2024…

Global stock markets left on edge after Tokyo’s ‘Black Monday’ reprise

Planet Business: Another acquisition target for Mars, Elon Musk’s advertiser lawsuit and the new name for Twickenham

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Ryan Tubridy’s UK radio show pulls in over half a million listeners irishtimes.com/business/2024…

Ryan Tubridy’s UK radio show pulls in more than half a million listeners

Presenter welcomes 10% audience climb in his second quarter on Virgin Radio UK, as he surpasses his peak RTÉ listenership

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Irish PR industry body issues first set of guidelines on use of AI irishtimes.com/business/2024…

Irish PR industry body issues first set of guidelines on use of AI

‘Exercise caution’ and ‘stay vigilant’, members of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland have been urged

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Letter: Attitudes to single people irishtimes.com/opinion/lette…

Attitudes to single people

JD Vance is not the only one with outdated views

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Laura Whitmore ‘raised concerns’ about her Strictly experience in 2016. Why did the BBC not act on them? — this week’s media column irishtimes.com/business/2024…

Laura Whitmore ‘raised concerns’ about her Strictly experience in 2016. Why did the BBC not act on...

Strictly Come Dancing scandal is one of two ongoing BBC crises to involve serious duty-of-care issues

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Sweet Valley High author Francine Pascal dies aged 92 irishtimes.com/culture/books…

Sweet Valley High author Francine Pascal dies aged 92

Pascal wrote for TV soap The Young Marrieds in the 1960s before writing her first young adult novel

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Fair City and The Late Late Show destined to be twin scenes of bitter battle at RTÉ — this week’s media column. irishtimes.com/media/2024/07…

Fair City and The Late Late Show destined to be twin scenes of bitter battle at RTÉ

Kevin Bakhurst says it won’t do anything to jeopardise either programme amid plans to move them away from Montrose. But that hasn’t eased fears among sceptical, frustrated staff

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TG4 seeks €13.6m to set up news operation free of RTÉ editorial control irishtimes.com/business/2024…

TG4 seeks €13.6m to set up news operation free of RTÉ editorial control

News service provided by RTÉ to TG4 is ‘no longer fit for purpose’, says TG4 boss Alan Esslemont

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