Saved the date? Now secure it! Instead of waiting for the New Year to be the productive ‘new you’ that you always promise yourself, why not start now and secure your place at Radio Days Ireland on the 22nd and 23rd of February 20 [...] Read More
Learning Waves secures Skillnet funding for 2018 Learning Waves Skillnet is delighted to announce that they have secured funding for the design and delivery of training programmes for the Independent Commercial Radio Sector in Ireland. The funding annou [...] Read More
Video in the Struggle against Social Share In a recent podcast produced by one of our trainers, Joanne Sweeney Burke of the Digital Training Institute, explores the concept of why Youtube is crushing Facebook when it comes to video. Joanne states how ve [...] Read More
In an Era of Fake News Commercial Radio goes from Strength to Strength The term ‘fake news’ has over-saturated our news feeds in the last year and has said to have had a somewhat detrimental effect on trustworthiness in the news and for media outlets. According to the [...] Read More
Storytelling and Original Journalism Workshop Learning Waves Skillnet are delighted to welcome back Andrew Wilson and Jane Kinghorn from the BBC Academy to present our final course for 2018 - Storytelling and Original Journalism. Andrew and Jane are [...] Read More
20th Digital Journalism Conference takes place in the UK According to, Gartner, a technology research company in America, there will be roughly 8.4 billion devices connected in the world in 2017, rising 31% since 2016. It is also estimated that by 2020 it will reach [...] Read More
Design/Create/Monitor Digital Content for Radio Course Learning Waves Skillnet is offering Job Seekers and Graduates a FREE Digital for Radio training programme. This course will give you the opportunity to work on a project for a radio station while at the s [...] Read More
Opportunity for TY Students through BAI Media Literacy Fund and Learning Waves Skillnet A week long placement in Radio Kerry is being offered to 14 lucky transition year students, in conjunction with the Radio Kerry, Learning Waves Skillnet and the BAI through the Media Literacy Fund. During the w [...] Read More
How Can Radio Stations Engage With Millennials and the iGeneration? Millenials or Gen X are those who reach adulthood by the year 2000. iGeneration or Generation Z are those born from the mid 1990s to the early noughties. They have grown up in the Digital Age but re [...] Read More
The Importance of Powerful Storytelling The Power of Storytelling Conference and Festival took place over the weekend in Romania where it saw storytellers in a multitude of fields such as art, media and business come together and share their experien [...] Read More
Tell us your training needs for 2018 Learning Waves Skillnet is currently undertaking a training needs analysis of all its members to inform its funding application to Skillnets for 2018. The survey is designed to allow all members to input [...] Read More
IMRO Awards Salute Irish Radio Friday night saw the biggest names in Irish radio congregate in the stunning Lyrath Estate Hotel, Kilkenny, for the 2017 IMRO Radio Awards. The gala ceremony was attended by over 600 guests and hosted by the ev [...] Read More
