Christian Sciene Monitor - nuachtán laethúil le dul ar-líne
B'fhéidir gur leor nód don eolach. Seo scéal ó cheann de na páipéirí fadbhunaithe sna Stáit Aontaithe, páipéar a bhfuil clú agus cáil air.
Bunaíodh an Monitor 100 bliain ó shin, ar an mhí seo chugainn, agus tá seacht duais Pulitzer bainte aige.
'The Christian Science Monitor plans major changes in April 2009 that are expected to make it the first newspaper with a national audience to shift from a daily print format to an online publication that is updated continuously each day.
The changes at the Monitor will include enhancing the content on CSMonitor.com, starting weekly print and daily e-mail editions, and discontinuing the current daily print format.
This new, multiplatform strategy for the Monitor will "secure and enlarge the Monitor's role in its second century," said Mary Trammell, editor in chief of The Christian Science Publishing Society and a member of the Christian Science Board of Directors. Mrs. Trammell said that "journalism that seeks to bless humanity, not injure, and that shines light on the world's challenges in an effort to seek solutions, is at the center of Mary Baker Eddy's vision for the Monitor. The method of delivery and format are secondary" and need to be adjusted, given Mrs. Eddy's call to keep the Monitor "abreast of the times."
While the Monitor's print circulation, which is primarily delivered by US mail, has trended downward for nearly 40 years, "looking forward, the Monitor's Web readership clearly shows promise," said Judy Wolff, chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society. "We plan to take advantage of the Internet in order to deliver the Monitor's journalism more quickly, to improve the Monitor's timeliness and relevance, and to increase revenue and reduce costs. We can do this by changing the way the Monitor reaches its readers."
The coming changes, over two years in the planning stage, occur at a time of fundamental transition in news publishing and turn the page on a remarkable chapter in American journalism.
The Monitor, which celebrates its 100th anniversary on Nov. 25, was launched at the direction of church founder Eddy, who had been the subject of a searing legal and journalistic attack by Joseph Pulitzer's New York World. Officials of her church had a professional news organization up and running in just over 100 days.
In the Monitor's first edition, Mrs. Eddy defined the scope and tone of the newspaper's journalistic mission, writing that it should "injure no man, but bless all mankind."
Since that time, generations of editorial and publishing workers have devoted themselves to the Monitor. While Mrs. Eddy's paper was initially greeted with skepticism, the Monitor won respect from its journalistic peers; it has been awarded seven Pulitzer Prizes and numerous other journalistic accolades. Three Monitor editors have been elected president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
Nasc don scéal seo, http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1029/p25s01-usgn.html


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Ní stopann siad. Tá an Droichead ag brú agus ag brostú chun cinn i rith an ama. Tá an scoil agus ionad pobail ar Bhóthar Ormeau agus is é an t-aon Ghaelscoil amháin i ndeisceart/oirthear Bhéal Feirste.
Gach seans go mbeidh placardaí Gaeilge á n-iompar ag lucht Shinn Féin agus iad ag agoid i mBéal Feirste Dé Domhnaigh agus an UDR/RIR ag mairseáil tríd lár an bhaile ann.
Tá sé bliain go cothrom inniu ó cailleadh Ciarán Ó hEigeartaigh.
Tá scannal ag baint le Jonathan Ross - agus ní hé amháin an 'jóc' suarach a d'imir sé féin is Russell Brand ar Andrew Sachs.
Shocraigh Roinn Cosanta na Breataine, faoi bhrú nó ar chomhairle na nAontachtaithe, 'coat trailing exercise' a dhéanamh de mhórshiúil arm na Breataine tríd lár Bhéal Feirste Dé Domhnaigh. Thig le hAontachtaithe agus le cléir Protastúnach seinm ó seo go Lá Sheoin Dic nach bhfuil ar intinn ag lucht eagraithe na hócáide ach fáiltiú ar ais ar bhealach ciúin beasach roimh a ngaolta. Ach i bhfírinne is faill é seo ag aontachtaithe a dhearbhú don domhan, agus go háirithe do náisiúnaigh, go seasann Béal Feirste fós leis an Impireacht. Go dtacaíonn Béal Feirste le 'traidisiún na seirbhíse míleata' agus míleatachas na Breataine.
Bhí picéad ann i mBéal Feirste ar maidin nuair a tosaíodh ag éisteacht cás cúirte le Caoimhín Mac Giolla Catháin, príomhcheoltóir Bréag. Tá Caoimhín ag iarraidh a aisghairm Acht Riartha an Cheartais, Teangacha, 1737, le fada an lá ag cosc úsáid na Gaeilge sna cúirteanna ó thuaidh. Tá súil as agam go mbeidh toradh ar an fheachtas seo agusa r chás Chaoimhín. Tá go leor saineolaithe teanga le fianaise a thabhairt sa chás, orthu sin an stairí Eamonn Phoenix a labhair ar Talkback an BBC inniu ag moladh go ndéanfaí an dlí seo a aisghairm. Ar ndóigh is maith is eol dom féin faoin dlí seo nó i bhfad siar in 1986-87 bhí mé féin agus Gearóid Ó Cairealláin os comhair cúirte as a bheith ag peinteáil manaí as Gaeilge, 'Saortar Ó Mianainn' agus 'Cearta Gael anois.' Labhair muid i nGaeilge sa chúirt agus bhí an t-ádh nó an mí-ádh orainn go raibh Gaeilge éigin ag an breitheamh agus teach saoire aige i nGaoth Dobhair lena chois. Agus briseadh ar na rialacha cúirte, gach seans, nuair a fostaíodh AJ Hughes mar fhear teanga ag Breandán Ó Fiaich nuair a tugadh eisean os comhair cúirte as .... a ainm a thabhairt i nGaeilge.