Piaras Kelly PR - Public Relations in Ireland

The inaugural Irish Web Awards took place at the weekend. There were some media sites among the winners including the Irish Times which won the best online publication award, Silicon Republic was awarded best technology website, and Phantom FM which was named as best radio website.

The Irish Independent reports that RTE will ask its top earners to take a pay cut as advertising revenues fall.

Across the pond, Channel 4 has axed its radio plans due to the same advertising slump.

In other news RTE won 9 PPI awards at the weekend.

Silicon Republic points out that YouTube is finally fulfilling its role as a media concierge. The site will incorporate new features which will see button added to pages which users can you to purchase content from Amazon or iTunes.

The Irish Times reports that Charlie Bird will leave his position as Chief News correspondent and move to the US to become the station’s new Washington correspondent. Fantastic time to take up the position given the elections in November and the outlook for world events in the near future.

The Irish Times business desk has started blogging.