November 19, 2009 – 10:10 pm
Today was a day for speechifying by television big wigs. Even as Foxtel’s Kim Williams was calling for deregulation of the television industry, as reported in my previous post, the ABC’s Director of Television, Kim Dalton, was suggesting that regulation be extended to cover new platforms, including mobile telephones and television content delivered by the [...]
November 19, 2009 – 5:13 pm
The CEO of Foxtel, Kim Williams, has made a major speech today calling for a rapid and fundamental alteration to the way in which the television industry is regulated.
Speaking at the Network Insights Conference in Sydney, Williams took the fight up to commercial free to air television and to the ABC, suggesting that regulations and [...]
November 19, 2009 – 12:14 am
This morning the Centre for Advanced Journalism at the University of Melbourne will release its first major research report. It is an extraordinary document, giving a close-grained view of how journalists reported on Australia’s worst peacetime disaster – the Black Saturday bushfires earlier this year.
In a story in the Crikey email later today, I detail [...]
November 18, 2009 – 11:19 am
…but every journalist should read it. It’s about how to stay up with reporting tips on YouTube.
November 18, 2009 – 10:40 am
I was talking to some ABC people yesterday about the new project that Crikey editor Jonathan Green will edit. The way it was put to me is that in this new multi-media universe, there is one area that your ABC has not done particularly well – text. This is what you would expect from an [...]
November 18, 2009 – 9:12 am
James Harding, the editor of the Times newspaper in England talks about the plans to charge for content. He pledges that News International will “re-write the economics of newspapers”.
I think it is beginning to become clear that there are in fact a number of models being developed inside News Corp for the pay wall. [...]
November 18, 2009 – 8:50 am
Here’s an interesting thing. Bronwen Clune, the woman who coined the term “control media” to describe that which is printed on dead trees and broadcast one-to-many, is going to nominate for the ABC and SBS Boards. She told me so yesterday evening.
Expect this to cause a flurry on Twitter, where @Bronwen has more than 3000 [...]
November 17, 2009 – 11:55 pm
It could be argued that until very recently, there wasn’t really anything fundamentally new about the internet. Email was just a faster and more efficient version of the post and telegrams. Web pages were similar to publishing and broadcasting – a one to many model, albeit with the barriers to entry dropped to near zero.
But [...]
November 17, 2009 – 3:06 pm
We have some hints as to how the new ABC op ed site, to be edited by Crikey editor Jonathan Green, will fit within Auntie’s emerging new media vision.
Two weeks ago, the ABC’s Director of News, Kate Torney, was interviewed by Peter Clarke for the Inside Story podcast. Listen here.
It’s a long interview, and of [...]
November 17, 2009 – 1:53 pm
I have the word from the ABC. Contributors to the ABC’s new opinion and analysis site will be paid at the same rate as for articles on ABC Unleashed – which, for those not in the know, is $200 for pieces of around 800 words.
The ABC also says:
ABC staff who write for the new site [...]
