Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 December 2020

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht

Challenges facing Public Broadcasting and the broader Media Sector as a result of Covid-19: Discussion

Mr. Frank Mulrennan:

In the Chairman's area, it is the editor of The Anglo-Celt, Linda O'Reilly, who will make a decision not to cover the reporting of court sittings or council meetings. That amounts to a loss of governance around local democracy. If a newspaper with five reporters loses one of them, it is down by between 20% and 25%. It is an inexorable move to a situation where we will not be able to give coverage.

I ask Mr. O'Hanlon to comment on what countries overseas are doing.

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