For seven long years, since the INM agm of 2012, where O’Brien’s long-time business associate Leslie Buckley became chairman of the board, INM took an official line: O’Brien does not control INM. The Mediahuis takeover will be a culture shock. For Mediahuis as well as INM. A defining strategy of the O’Brien regime lay in the relationship between traditional media (print ) and the new media (digital). By bringing their online content downmarket INM have handed Mediahuis a gargantuan task.

Source: The Irish Times May 01, 2019 00:11 UTC