Alison O'Connor: Why the virus is good news and bad news for the media industry

RTÉ director general, Dee Forbes: The national broadcaster will avail of the government pay-subsidy scheme.Picture: Maxwellphotography.ie

Trusted newspaper websites have had record traffic... but advertising has fallen off a cliff, writes Alison O’Connor

Any news?’ It’s that classic Irish question, asked any number of times during the day: when someone has come back in, having been out, or is just off the phone, or when you bump into someone on the street, or you’re sending an email to a friend.