ABC insider Wart Snall reports on Mark Scott’s proposed expansion of the ABC’s international presence. What part should the ABC play on putting Australia on display?
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The ABC plans for world domination
Yesterday, ABC chief Mark Scott announced the broadcaster’s plans to become a global media force. Is the ABC pitching to become a propaganda arm of the Australian Government? asks Karl Quinn; and is that really something taxpayers should be funding?
The ABC needs a Pacific Solution
Mark Scott is pitching for a dramatic expansion in the ABC’s international presence, but Australia just isn’t enough of a cultural heavyweight to compete with America or the UK. Why not focus on the Pacific region, where we actually have some cultural credibility?
Mark Scott on merging media professionals and their audience
The ABC will be experimenting with new methods of producing journalism through “pro-am” collaborations between media professionals and the audience, the ABC managing director Mark Scott said at the Media140 conference in Sydney this morning, writes Margaret Simons.
The ABC gets social and local
Margaret Simons reports live from the Media140 conference, where ABC chief Mark Scott has made some announcements about Auntie’s future: a digital media project in local communities, ABC “widgets” for social media pages, and staff guidelines for using social media.
Auntie gives Rupert a helping hand with Punch
Anyone watching the media over the past week might have been tempted to think that there was a war going on between News Limited and the ABC. Except, there is a big gap between rhetoric and reality.
Online pay battle: there’s no such thing a such a free …
News Limited have returned fire to Mark Scott’s speech last week about the future of paywalls. How will Rupert Murdoch’s paywall system work?
The secret plans of News Limited
News Limited have come out swinging against Mark Scott’s speech from last week, with reports in The Australian of how Rupert Murdoch is actually going to implement his paywall plans.
Mark Day: News does have content worth paying for — we just haven’t figured out what it is yet
Mark Dayleaps into the The Oz’s “Stacks-on ABC’s Mark Day” Day: Scott is wrong to dismiss paywalls on the grounds that much of News Corp’s content isn’t worth paying for: it is, and when Rupert works out what and why, he’ll let you know.
News bites back at the ABC
News Digital Media CEO Richard Freudenstein hits back at the “misguided commentary and criticism” of News Corp and its Dear Leader made by ABC chief Mark Scott last week.
Your ABC and their News Limited: the media’s empire games
A speech last night by ABC chief Mark Scott was a pre-emptive strike in what will be the main media battle of the first quarter of this century — between paid content and public broadcasting.
Mark Scott’s fall of Rome fallacy
ABC chief Mark Scott’s comparison of the ongoing media revolution and the fall of the Roman Empire hardly fills one with confidence, says Trevor Cook: after the “fall” came the Dark Ages.
Scott: The ABC will always be free
Media moguls’ mission to make people pay for content will not work and cannot work, except for a few highly specialised high quality brands, ABC managing director Mark Scott said in an address last night.
The ABC: now Godless
ABC GM Mark Scott has failed to make good on his promise to give more mainstream coverage to religious issues since axing Radio National’s The Religion Report, says Paul Collins. An analysis of last week alone shows the broadcaster missed at least five big stories.
A pity Mark Scott lost his faith in the Religion Report
I was bemused to read ABC General Manager Mark Scott’s recent comments on the role of religion in the media, says Paul Collins, especially when he allowed the axing of The Religion Report.
Fall of the media empires as simple as ABC?
ABC boss Mark Scott is to give a critical media lecture, titled “The Fall of Rome: Media After Empire”. It’s post colonial time as the media empires crumble, writes Margaret Simons.
The ABC: digital media’s stealth performer
I think Mark Scott’s ABC might end up inheriting the earth — or the dominant position in the Australian broadcasting world — despite itself, writes Adrian Swift.
Mark Scott: Why public broadcasting matters more than ever
ABC director Mark Scott has hit out at James Murdoch over his attack on the BBC, accusing him of wanting to “destroy the BBC as we know it” which would be a “tragedy”. Read the full speech here.
ABC chief bites back at Murdoch
ABC director Mark Scott has hit out at James Murdoch over his attack on the BBC, accusing him of wanting to “destroy the BBC as we know it” which would be a “tragedy”.
Video of the Day: Can the media be trusted to tell the truth?
Can we trust the press to choose facts over finances? Julian Burnside, John Fairfax, Jonathan Holmes, Simon Longstaff, Catharine Lumby, Stephen Mayne and Mark Scott debate the issue of truth in media.
The fall of Ms Duthie resolves little at the ABC
Amanda Duthie is no longer trusted to oversee comedy, so why is she still trusted to oversee Arts and Entertainment? Where do you draw that line? asks Glenn Dyer.
Aunty’s brave leader axes a patsy
While Amanda Duthie has lost her job, have the team that actually conceptualised, wrote, filmed, edited and put their faces and names to the infamous “Make a Realistic Wish” sketch been made to pay for their mistake?
Guy Rundle: “Referral upwards” will kill ABC comedy
A sketch-comedy show is part playground crap session, part last days in the Fuhrerbunker, and the relentless need to feed the monster that is the show can put you off.
