Colum Kenny :

SELECTED MEDIA ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT. At least 400 articles, 1993-2008. Columnist on communications, cultural, environmental, social and political affairs.

INN (INDEPENDENT NETWORK NEWS). Tribute to Michael Mills, journalist and ombudsman, deceased. 14 April 2008.

PRIMETIME. RTE 1. Panellist re Irish language policy. 18 March 2008.

BBC SCOTLAND (TV and radio interviews) Interviewed re proposed Gaelic TV channel for Scotland. December 2007.

RTÉ RADIO. Archive interview with Nancy McCarthy by myself, 1970s, re cultural history of Cork. Transmitted by John Bowman on Saturday 22 September 2007.

THIS WEEK. RTÉ Radio 1. Interviews re fairness of election coverage, 5 June 2007, and proposed takeover of ITV, March 2007.

IRISH TIMES. Interview re media depiction of disability. 4 June 2007.

PRIMETIME. RTÉ 1. Panellist re media standards/regulation. 31 May 2007.

BUSINESS & FINANCE. Interview re future of television, 22 February 2007.

NEWSTALK 106FM. Various, re media privacy, tabloids, etc. 2004-7.

IRISH EXAMINER. Article re tenth anniversary of TG4. 31 October 2006.

DRIVETIME (RTÉ Radio 1). Interview re tenth anniversary of TG4. 2006.

THIS WEEK (RTÉ Radio 1). Interviews re fairness of election coverage, 3/6/07; UK media developments, 10/12/2006; future of TV, 22/1/06.

MEDIA FORUM (The Radharc Trust). Analysis of Broadcasting Bill. The Radharc Trust. September 2006. www.mediaforum.ie

IRISH CATHOLIC. “Churches should beware of state”, 20 April 2006.

RTÉ 9 O'CLOCK NEWS (RTÉ 1 Television). Interview re planned press regulation. 30 March 2006.

TVAM (TV3) interview re racism and the media, 10 January 2006.

PRIMETIME (RTÉ 1 Television), GOOD MORNING ULSTER (BBC Radio), PAT KENNY (RTÉ Radio) and other appearances re media, 2005.

PRIMETIME (RTÉ 1 Television), QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (RTÉ 1 Television) and other media interviews/appearances re media, 2004.

MORNING IRELAND. (e.g.) Interviews, re Late Late Show, Autumn, 2003, and re Forum on Broadcasting, Summer 2002.

IRISH TIMES. Review of The Law Society of Ireland, 1852-2002: portrait of a profession (Ed. E.G. Hall and Daire Hogan, Four Courts Press, 2002), 25 January 2003.

PRIMETIME, RTÉ 1. Studio interview re Forum on Broadcasting report. September, 2002.

LOCAL RADIO STATIONS (Various). Frequent commentary and panellist in relation to media developments.1989-2006.

THE WORD. “The Irish Catholic Church: where to now?”. January 2003.

IN PRODUCTION. ‘Submission to the Forum on Broadcasting’. Picked exclusively by the editor for publication in this unique journal for audiovisual professionals. June, 2002.

UNIVERSITY VIEW. “The future of Irish television”. Winter 2002.

TODAY FM. The Last Word. Extended interview by Fintan O‘Toole re my book, King's Inns and the battle of the books. July 2002.

REALITY magazine. “Is the media anti-Catholic?”, April 2001.

BBC RADIO 4. Sunday with Roger Bolton (UK national radio). Live interview by Bolton re culture of Orange Order. 2 April 2000.

RTE RADIO 1: Tonight, with Vincent Browne. Expert interview re RTÉ. 3 February 2000.

BBC News. (UK national television and radio). Expert interview re the end of RTÉ's ‘Late Late Show’, 21 May 1999.

THE WELL, and WCCM web-site, and SUNDAY INDEPENDENT. Five articles on visit to India and Italy as invited observer at Christian/Buddhist dialogue meetings with Dalai Lama (‘The Way of Peace’). January-June 1999.

RTÉ RADIO 1: The Arts Show. Book review of Kathryn Flett, The Heart-shaped bullet and discussion of confessional journalism. 20 May 1999.

MARKETING. vol. ix, no.8: September 1998. “Too much TV? The fight for viewers”.

MEDIA REPORT. Family and Media Association Quarterly, no.12 (Autumn 1998). “Digital TV affects us all”.

TODAY FM. The Last Word with Eamon Dunphy. Expert interviews, e.g. re digital TV, 14 September 1998, and Broadcasting Bill. 28 May 1998.

MARKETING OPINION. “Fragmentation, costs, audiences”. January 1998.

RTÉ MAIN NEWS. ‘Expert’ interview on CanWest acquisition of TV3. May, 1997.

IRISH INDEPENDENT. “TnaG: a tough task in anyone's language”. October 1996.

IRISH INDEPENDENT. Violence on TV: special report with results of my DCU students' term research on violence on TV in Ireland. 16 March 1996.

TELEVISION BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL YEARBOOK (London, 1995) and CO-PRODUCTION INTERNATIONAL (London, 1995). Entries for Ireland.

VIDEO BUSINESS/VIDEO HOME ENTERTAINMENT. Monthly reports and articles on Irish audiovisual sector. 1992-1995.

PLAYBACK. Many monthly specialist articles on broadcasting. 1989-92.

EUROPEAN VIDEO REVIEW. Espace Video Europeene Market Analysis Newsletter, no.1 (1992). Article on Irish market trends.

IRISH TIMES. Feature. “Babette's feast or Irish famine: Ireland's role in the European debate on cultural identity and the cinema”. February 1992.

IRISH TIMES. “ENG changing the face of television”. January 1992.

TV WORLD (UK). Special feature on Ireland. November 1991.

IRISH TIMES. “Broadcasting Act transmits fuzzy signals”. September 1991.

SPECTRUM (Quarterly magazine of the Independent Television Commission, U.K.). Opinion. “Foreign View”. Summer 1991.

IRISH TIMES. Feature. “Making news for all of Europe”. A report on DCU co-production with other European schools of journalism (Paris, Aarhus, Utrecht) and on the lessons to be learnt for news production. June 1991.

IRISH MARKETING JOURNAL. Feature. “A promise fulfilled? - Independent broadcasting in Ireland to date”. March 1990.

FORTNIGHT MAGAZINE. Feature. “Today Tonight and the future of current affairs broadcasting”. January 1990.

In 1990 and 1990, DCU's Colum Kenny was commissioned by RTÉ 1 television to produce two special, long debates on the future of broadcasting, entitled WHAT'S IN THE BOX.
These were the first-ever live current affairs TV programmes commissioned by RTÉ.
He created a company entitled OX PICTURES to do so. The initiative was praised in THE IRISH TIMES by its leading political commentator Dick Walsh and in THE IRISH INDEPENDENT by its editor.

DAILY EXPRESS. Feature. “Irish local radio, - battle rages”. November 1989.

RTÉ MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION NEWS, vol.1, no.1. Feature. “RTÉ and the public service, - future directions”. November 1989.

FILMSCAN (Annual Irish directory of the ACTT trade union). Introductory guest editorial. “Changing times ahead”. 1989.

IRISH TIMES. “European TV prepares for US challenge”. June 1988.

IRISH TIMES. “Ireland to lead Europe in TV by microwave”. 28 April 1988.

RTÉ RADIO 1. Review of P. Schlesinger, Putting Reality Together: BBC news (re-issue). Books & Co., February 1988.

IRISH INDEPENDENT. National exclusive front-page lead news story and lead feature on government plans for a private third TV channel. January 1988.