November 6, 2009 – 5:35 pm
An excerpt of Caroline Overington’s session at Media 140 has been posted on YouTube, and the whole session is on Slow TV, including Annabel Crabb and others. In Overington’s address she displays all the defensiveness of News Limited, takes a shot at the ABC and its Director Mark Scott and gives some hints or Rupert’s [...]
November 6, 2009 – 9:56 am
I can’t be at the Media 140 conference today, sadly, but apart from the coverage provided yesterday on this blog, I thought I would mention some personal high and low lights, as well as some thoughts that occurred to me through the day.
The low lights came from conceptual confusions, it seemed to me. Namely the [...]
November 6, 2009 – 9:23 am
As readers of previous posts, and the Australian Financial Review (which I am sure picked up the story all on its own and not by reading this blog, because, after all, they would have acknowledged it if they got it from here, wouldn’t they) will know, Caroline Overington let slip a the Media 140 conference [...]
November 5, 2009 – 7:17 pm
There must have been something in what Caroline Overington let slip at Media140 today. News Limited types have been heard grumbling about it. (See previous post if you haven’t a clue what I’m talking about.)
November 5, 2009 – 4:09 pm
UPDATE. Is this what Overington meant? Thanks to @MikeDobbie for the hint.
A session at the Media 140 conference just concluded in which The Australian’s Caroline Overington not only defended what she referred to as “her” media organisation, not only took some shots at the ABC boss Mark Scott, but also just possibly gave a hint [...]
November 5, 2009 – 2:50 pm
One of the most interesting and confronting sessions at Media 140 conference so far has been the session on the real impact of Tweeting In Iran.
Here is Mark Colvin’s original and challenging presentation.
And here is Jason Wilson.
November 5, 2009 – 12:07 pm
In my previous blog post about ABC Managing Director Mark Scott’s new media announcements at the Media140 conference today, I said that last night he could not answer the question about whether other commercial news organisations – such as Crikey, News Limited and Fairfax – would be allowed to carry the ABC news feed made [...]
November 5, 2009 – 9:15 am
As this is posted, ABC Managing Director Mark Scott gets to his feet to address the Media 140 conference in Sydney to make three announcements about the future of the ABC in the digital age.
Together, the announcements envision an ABC that is a porous institution; not only making content, but also helping the audience to [...]
November 4, 2009 – 11:57 pm
The ABC’s Director of television, Kim Dalton, has suggested that money reaped from the sale of spectrum freed up by the advent of digital television should be used to support the production of local content.
They are giving lots of speeches, those ABC guys. See the previous post about Mark Scott’s yet to be delivered address [...]
November 4, 2009 – 6:00 pm
The ABC will seek more money and commitment from government to allow the public broadcaster to carry its services to the world in an ambitious roll out involving many new overseas news bureaus, Arabic language services and ultimately a new satellite.
At a speech at Macquarie University tomorrow night ABC Managing Director Mark Scott will outline [...]
