February 26, 2009 – 12:59 pm
Talk about justice delayed.
Just the other day I wrote that the broadcasting regulator rarely takes action against commercial television news and current affairs. Today they have proved me wrong, with a finding from the Australian Communications and Media Authority that Channel Seven’s Today Tonight program failed to present material accurately ina segment about an aged [...]
February 26, 2009 – 11:29 am
Yes, John Cameron is going. I have written all the background for the Crikey email today, but here are the memos that Cameron and ABC Managing Director Mark Scott sent to staff this morning.
From Mark Scott:
Dear Colleagues
The ABC’s Director of News, John Cameron today has announced to his News division that after nine [...]
February 25, 2009 – 5:40 pm
The advertising trade journal B&T is reporting that more than 30 sales and editorial staff have been cut from ACP’s women’s magazines, including Cleo, Cosmopolitan, Dolly and Shop Til’ You Drop.
February 25, 2009 – 5:33 pm
A former head of the ABC’s Religion unit has accused management of being “ideologically driven” in downgrading the place of religion at the national broadcaster.
In an article published by Eureka Street, Paul Collins also takes a personal dig at ABC Managing Director Mark Scott, saying: “it would be ironic if a discrete religion unit disappeared [...]
February 25, 2009 – 11:24 am
Along with just about everyone else who cares about journalism, I like to think of it as a public good. On this I base the claim that we should worry and think about the decline of newspapers as the biggest employers of journalists.
The idea of journalism as a public good is what has led the [...]
February 24, 2009 – 5:21 pm
You really do have to hand it to him. Rupert Murdoch has come out of what must surely have been a bloody week with a rush of high flown rhetoric that shows he actually has a clue what business he is in.
Yes, I know we can be cynical. Murdoch is a hard and ruthless operator. [...]
February 24, 2009 – 4:59 pm
Its not often that the Australian Communication and Media Authority throws its weight around on issues concerning commercial television and journalism ethics.
Today is an exception. ACMA has found that Channel Nine broadcast racist material in a news item about changes to the baby bonus scheme aimed at parents with gambling and addiction problems.
The ACMA report [...]
February 24, 2009 – 2:02 pm
A few tensions at the Sydney Morning Herald, I am told, since Peter Fray got his feet under the desk as editor. A few senior correspondents feel they are being micro-managed.
February 24, 2009 – 1:41 pm
According to what Minister for Communications Senator Stephen Conroy told Senate Estimates yesterday, an announcement is imminent on the new appointees to the ABC and SBS Boards. Not before time.
It is surprising Conroy didn’t get more of a grilling about this. Like most things connected with his portfolio, it has taken forever.
So who has their [...]
February 24, 2009 – 1:15 pm
In the media executive-speak of our time, “branding” is what it is meant to be all about. The theory, rarely questioned, goes like this.
We, Big Media Brand A, are known for quality content/journalism. Therefore when people want quality they will come to us. They will know they are getting quality because they are getting it [...]
