Freelance Forum

About Freelance Forum

Freelance Forum is a series of events to inform, educate and update freelance journalists in Ireland on the latest workplace and industry developments. The Forum is made possible by support from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland and the National Union of Journalists.

Publisher

Faduda

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 May 2013

Latest episode

26 Jul 2025

Latest episodes

1 of 157 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   26 Jul 2025

   Freelance Forum 95

   Freelance Forum 95 The Editors: Pitching to The Press GCN editor Alice Linehan, and Business Post head of news Peter O’Dwyer talk with journalist Priyanka Borpujari about pitching stories and the commissioning process

2. 

   2 Jul 2025

   Freelance Forum 94

   Freelance journalist Deaglán de Bréadún discusses the dangers and challenges of reporting from the Middle East in an interview, offering insights into the realities of internationalcorrespondence.

3. 

   10 May 2025

   Freelance Forum 93

   Opening Address at the Spring 2025 Freelance Forum on 14 April Karlin Lillington on "Skynet for Journalism? Dealing with Artificial intelligence"

Inside a recent episode

Freelance Forum 82: DCTV

Published 2 Aug 2024 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But by and large television productions do make the way to community television like they do to RTE and to Virgin Media. And it's good that we work with the smaller projects that want to focus on the more diverse things within Irish society and life, be it diversity and integration stories or just those off -beat stories that nobody else wants to cover, particularly when there may be local history and there's lots of things that just never get to the screens of RTE or to Virgin Media. And it's great that they can develop things with our service that are a little bit more off -beat. You mentioned as well there becoming a member of the station. […]

Podcast Authority Score: 44 / 100

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Quality

75

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

30

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