Sep 28, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min · 11 segments
In this episode we talk to John Fay about Newshound. John set up Newshound in 1996, after moving from the U.S.A. to Ireland, as a daily curated source of news on the North and the development of the…
John FayGuest
Aonghus StoreyHost
Ciarán SwanHostIrish Left Archive HostHost
And was it the same process as you had at the end? I mean, you were getting up every morning early.
I mean, if you want to describe, maybe you should describe the process of what you did.
I actually, I don't know when I started doing it first thing in the morning because I didn't initially.
But eventually I thought, yeah, I used to just do it during my day whenever I felt like it.
First thing I did every morning, I would get up at 5.30 and start doing the news sounds, just scouring the internet for news stories.
And that became, you know, that process, that editorial process, because what meant mattered and what didn't.
And then I started, you know, I would go through all these, whatever newspapers, there weren't that many available online yet.
Eventually, I decided, OK, so let's say there's you know different news stories that are big and there might be some opinion pieces so i would try to group them first by story so you would have like whatever was the lead story you know mark mcginnis says such and such and then maybe someone wrote an opinion piece or what martin mcginnis said so that would go up top and then the next one would be a different story with then opinion below that I don't know if anybody else ever recognized how I arranged the articles, but that's how I always did
And was it the same process as you had at the end? I mean, you were getting up every morning early.
I mean, if you want to describe, maybe you should describe the process of what you did.
I actually, I don't know when I started doing it first thing in the morning because I didn't initially.
But eventually I thought, yeah, I used to just do it during my day whenever I felt like it.
First thing I did every morning, I would get up at 5.30 and start doing the news sounds, just scouring the internet for news stories.
And that became, you know, that process, that editorial process, because what meant mattered and what didn't.
And then I started, you know, I would go through all these, whatever newspapers, there weren't that many available online yet.
Eventually, I decided, OK, so let's say there's you know different news stories that are big and there might be some opinion pieces so i would try to group them first by story so you would have like whatever was the lead story you know mark mcginnis says such and such and then maybe someone wrote an opinion piece or what martin mcginnis said so that would go up top and then the next one would be a different story with then opinion below that I don't know if anybody else ever recognized how I arranged the articles, but that's how I always did
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