There does not seem to be a designated News On Two newscaster anymore. Eileen Whelan was the regular presenter, but now it seems whoever is doing the late evening shift for the radio news and late summary on RTE One presents The News On Two. Una O'Hagan and John Finnerty have been presenting it of late, a bulletin then never presents before, instead younger newscasters i.e in keeping with News On Two aim to a younger demographic.
Well they could get rid of him to Washington, unless they think he'll start telling the Republicans how to run the World economy
Press speculation is that he doesn't want the job due to having a young family, and will return to work in RTÉ in the documentaries department. There will apprarently be a confined competition in RTÉ for the Washington Correspondant job.
Is Anthony Murnane still in an editorial role? I know I probably say it each time I'm in Ireland, but he deserves a more prominent role in front of the camera than reading the late RTÉ ONE news on a Friday night.
And when will newsreaders at Montrose be encouraged to ask leading questions to reporters in two-ways than throw a closed sentence at them? The only presenter I've seen in the past two weeks who actively averts this is Úna O'Hagan. who is worthy of the praise she receives in this thread - her and Murnane are the beacons of the RTÉ newsroom. I believe it does little for the journalistic integrity of whoever is reading the news to engage with, not prompt, the reporter in a two-way, it gives me the impression editorial staff and produces see the sole purpose of the newsreader is to merely link between VTs - and I thought RTÉ gave up on that 20 years ago.
Agreed - it's a pleasure to see Una on the odd 6.01 these days. I was watching the one o'clock earlier in the week and Una was presenting it - the whole bulletin ran like clockwork. I would write en essay about her but suffice to say she's superb in every way. Camera angles were great - esp during a two-way with Tommie Gorman - lovely high ceiling shot. The whole news ouput had jumped lightyears ahead of where we were even just 2 years ago. Fair play to them. Regarding Anthony, he's also quite praiseworthy but I don't know why he doesn't do more in front of the camera. Perhaps he prefers not to? Who knows.
I like the business feature they do at lunchtime even though some presenters (cough) obviously haven't a clue what they're talking about when they interview CEOs etc and the like. It gets on my nerve though how the globe rotates in the wrong direction in the little business ident they use. All they have to do is play it backwards and stick on the logo again!
Big advertising screens in Busaras (and I presume train stations) have had Sky News headlines replaced with RTÉ News Now. Which is good, it was bizarre having UK headlines and £ exchange rates.
Big advertising screens in Busaras (and I presume train stations) have had Sky News headlines replaced with RTÉ News Now. Which is good, it was bizarre having UK headlines and £ exchange rates.