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Media briefs: reform fact check … News photo stunt … No Idea on Ellen …
ABC journos have been ensnared in a Sunday Telegraph stunt in a campaign against Labor’s proposed media reforms.
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Richard Farmer’s chunky bits
The media are looking for “Labor figures”, and they’re not too picky who they get. Plus other political issues of the day.
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ABC News gets $10m extra funding to boost regional coverage
ABC news boss Kate Torney today announced a major funding boost, with implications for news-gathering operations across the country.
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Holmes: BBC boss’ incuriosity won’t kill this cat
That BBC boss George Entwistle didn’t investigate allegations against Jimmy Savile makes sense. It goes to the important Chinese walls at the broadcaster, writes ABC Media Watch host Jonathan Holmes.
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Mussels off the menu on the ABC
Yet Crikey suspects many media consumers, especially those who rely on the broadcast media for news, would be utterly confused about exactly why Peter Slipper resigned from the speaker’s chair.
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Jobs, programs set to go as Radio National chases $1m
Staff at ABC Radio National are nervous about a major overhaul due to be announced tomorrow.
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Eric Campbell v Greg Sheridan: it’s not over yet
An update on #sheridanchallenged, the bid by ABC Foreign Correspondent reporter Eric Campbell to get The Australian’s foreign editor Greg Sheridan to give examples of “sectarian” interests.
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ABC’s Eric Campbell to Greg Sheridan: put up or shut up
ABC reporter Eric Campbell took offence at The Australian’s Greg Sheridan and his suggestion that “many in the ABC support totalitarianism”. Here’s his letter in response …
READ MOREAn apology, then a debate: what’s ‘opinion’ on your ABC?
An ABC apology to Coalition front-bencher Scott Morrison over claims he pandered to racist attitudes towards asylum seekers has re-launched debate about the public broadcaster’s forays into opinion and commentary.
READ MORE‘Churnalism sweatshop’: ABC News journos fear review
The ABC is considering a radical shake-up of its news and current affairs departments, along the lines of a largely untested British model which has been described as a “churnalism sweatshop”.
READ MORERudd & Oz Network saga: everyone cast ‘in a poor light’
No sensible observer could deny that the protracted and aborted tender process for the Australia Network contract was a schemozzle from start to finish. The Auditor-General agrees, writes David Salter.
READ MORECabinet in the dark on shambolic Australia Network bidding
Cabinet is in the dark, the bidders don’t know the new criteria and questions are being asked over the murky political interference in running the Asia-Pacific TV channel Australia Network.
READ MOREABC’s Long and Lewis bury hatchet, make date for beef rendang
Genial ABC finance correspondent Stephen “Schlong” Long and Landline EP Peter Lewis have buried the hatchet in their notorious slaughterhouse dispute, with the sparring duo agreeing break bread over beef rendang.
READ MOREABC internal emails: knowing your heifers from your steers (minus the jatz crackers)
When is a slaughterhouse not a slaughterhouse? An amusing ABC News internal email exchange obtained by Crikey reveals the debates over language use and the disquiet from rural reporters about how the inner-city “latte set” are covering the live cattle exports story.
READ MOREABC journos told to penny-pinch on travel
ABC foreign correspondents have been effectively confined to their base cities because the budget for travel has run out. The stricture was contained in a message sent out last week from the head of policy for news, Steve Alward.
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How ABC News 24 lost pace with news from Japan
The ABC’s 24-hour news channel came in for a kicking today over its weekend coverage of what is surely the biggest breaking story of recent times, if not the decade. Some of that kicking is deserved.
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The Opposition says
Seriously, they might as well rename the ABC News “The Opposition Says”, since nowadays it seems to be their default method of opening any story about Australian politics, argues Jeremy Sear,
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And the Wankley goes to… viral ads, and the 7.30 whispering campaign
The 7.30 chant is becoming a roar. But not enough to drown out the viral marketing campaign stuff-up as the winner of this week’s Wankley Award.
READ MORERejuvenating journalism in a jaded age: Ballad of a Thin Man
For journalists working on Sundays, it’s just too easy to run a tape over Insiders or Meet the Press or whatever other political iprogram is filling the airwaves, writes Mr Denmore, a journalist for 26 years.
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How Twitter is mapping the flood crisis — and whether you can trust it
The Queensland floods crisis has seen a rush of people take to Twitter, local and remote, attempting to spread helpful information, writes Crikey intern Liam Mannix.
READ MOREABC back to the drawing board on foreign bureaux
The ABC will go back to the drawing board on its controversial changes to foreign reporting postings, with a deal to share facilities with the TV arm of Associated Press falling over.
READ MOREABC foreign affairs: cuts to support staff fuel News 24 resentment
The ABC is attempting to hose down anger over mooted changes to foreign reporting bureaus, but staff are deeply sceptical about sharing resources with a commercial news organisation and fewer opportunities for original field reporting.
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Life after Red Kerry: what’s the future of ABC current affairs?
How many different ways are there to do nightly prime time quality television current affairs? Margaret Simons looks at the decisions facing the ABC following the retirement of Kerry O’Brien.
READ MORESky’s the limit in The Oz’s war on ABC News 24
The Weekend Australian had a day out on Saturday, eagerly delivering its “bias!” verdict on ABC News 24, just 24-hours after the station launched.
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