Deirdre Veldon probably knows as much about the digital publishing transformation as anyone in Ireland because she’s had a ringside seat since almost the very beginning. Although it was almost an accident. Veldon, who was appointed group managing director of The Irish Times in November 2022, began her journalism career on the digital team of the paper in 1996. “I was out of the postgrad journalism course, and I wasn’t at all clear on what I was interviewing for,” she tells The Currency. “I did the first interview and, remarkably, got through to the second round, and I decided I…

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