While a great deal of attention has been paid to the top-line details in RTÉ’s New Direction document, including salary caps, redundancies, more work commissioned from independent production companies and the disposal of parts of the broadcaster’s Donnybrook campus, the 34-page report contains a multitude of plans that could radically reshape the organisation.
Many of the proposals are ambitious and, if implemented, would allow RTÉ to embrace more fully the digital world in an age of disinformation and appeal to a younger cohort who may not now consider it central to their lives.
RTÉ is promising to “transform” how it delivers news and current affairs with an enhanced news app and broader distribution across social to allow it grow younger audiences and it will put more emphasis on streaming.
The document also makes a commitment to “commission and produce high-impact…
