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Laura Slattery

Laura Slattery

Journalist

Laura Slattery is a journalist for The Irish Times, writing about media, advertising and miscellaneous business topics. Her Media & Marketing column and Teleprinter round-up of news in the sector appear in the Business + Technology supplement on Thursdays. She also compiles the Planet Business compendium for Business This Week on Fridays. She previously wrote about personal finance for the newspaper, and has covered economic stories and the food-and-drink industry, as well as blogging on IrishTimes.com.

The Facebook smartphone application. Photograph: Dado Ruvic/Reuters.
Facebook hate speech should have advertisers running

It’s not good enough for companies to say they can’t control where their ads appear

Facebook has moved to defend and clarify its policies on gender-based hate speech amid pressure from advertisers. Photograph: Martin Keene/PA Wire.
Facebook defends position on hate speech

Company says ‘no place’ for directly harmful content but ‘distasteful’ pages okay

Noel Curran: DG of RTE
Noel Curran concerned by BT business model

Sports rights “bubble” has consequences for Irish media market, says RTÉ boss

Bill Cullen (centre), with Brian Purcell and Jackie Lavin on The Apprentice
Advertisers seek ways to kiss TV funding frogs

Apprentice producer Larry Bass says alternatives to spot ads must be found

Moya Doherty (left) with Women on Air chairwoman Caroline Erskine, broadcasters Áine Lawlor and Ursula Halligan and Women on Air founder Margaret E Ward (right), in the grounds of RTÉ. Photograph: Robbie Reynolds
Women on Air welcomed at RTÉ

Broadcaster holds confidence-boosting training event for female experts

Newstalk's new iPad magazine
Newstalk launches ‘radio you can read’

Communicorp targets 50,000 downloads of new monthly iPad magazine

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt criticised British politicians for “a confusing spectacle” in which “legislators are doing the lobbying and companies are articulating the law as it stands”. Photograph: Reuters/Adam Hunger
Google chairman defends company’s tax position

Eric Schmidt says it is up to politicians to reform international laws

Image Publications recently relaunched Image.ie and hired a full-time editor, repositioning it as the home for original fashion and lifestyle content rather than a straight reproduction of the print magazine.
Image Publications ‘optimistic’ on profits

Publisher of women’s glossies and in-flight title ‘Cara’ says turnover grew 34% in 2012

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Financial Services

AIB Bank Centre at Ballsbridge, Dublin AIB agrees to defer closure of pension schemes pending more talks at Labour Court
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