Ms Linda O'Reilly:

There have been informal links between many regional newspapers and radio stations with existing colleges, and we do get some graduates through. I guess that some of the younger people are attracted by the bright lights of Dublin and by cities and by television broadcasting, and it can be difficult to get good graduates sometimes. Perhaps we could look at having some more formal structure in place to do that. It would really help if we had those subsidised apprenticeships for multimedia journalists so they could help us. We need upskilling as well in the area of multimedia journalism. We have invested in mobile journalism training. The problem is that we do not get enough time to implement it. Such support would be terrific because we could in turn help to train them in the more practical elements of things. We need some sort of a subsidised internship scheme that links in with education providers such as DCU.