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Mark Scott: The trouble with reporting the truth
Today is World Press Freedom Day. ABC boss Mark Scott reflects on the lack of free speech, government censorship and media control in countries — Fiji, Sri Lanka etc — less fortunate than our own.
Crikey Says: ABC should stick to what they’re good at
Late last year, the ABC’s managing director, Mark Scott, launched a campaign for the broadcaster to engage in what he described as “soft diplomacy”. But the focus should be on journalism, not diplomacy.
ABC Open: the vision doesn’t match the reality of resentment
Whetever happened to Mark Scott’s brave new Autnie initiative ABC Open? It’s going very slowly — and causing some resentment among existing hard-pressed ABC regional staff.
Time for Conroy to deliver
Where is Labor’s media policy? It was promised before the party came to government, but has never emerged. Now we are being treated to yet another Rudd review and consult exercise.
Business As Usual: Scary Airey’s TV sense … Senator Conroy’s media carrot … ASIC gets a computer program …
ASIC has finally bought a stockmarket surveillance system, a UK broadcast exec offers a few home truths to locals here, has Stephen Conroy produced a new “bribe” for out media sector? Plus more business briefs.
leaked Mark Scott to staff: we have to create our own future
Read the email, signed by ABC managing director Mark Scott and sent to ABC staff this morning, on the future of the ABC
Mark Day: Oh, for the luxury of never having to be commercially viable!
The ABC vs. Mark Day war continues, with Mark Day fighting back against Mark Scott’s claim that the BBC and the ABC are fundamentally very different beasts. Actually, our national broadcaster is just the mother country’s, says Day.
Mark Scott: It’s your ABC, not a rich exec’s ABC
Public broadcasting has not outlived its usefulness, thank you very much, writes ABC CEO Mark Scott. The ABC provides a critical national service separate from the blatantly commercial services.
ABC throws away the book in editorial policy shake-up
The ABC is preparing to give its editorial policies a comprehensive shake-up. Expect a really comprehensive re-write with the aim of making the policies readable and relevant to the new media age.
ABC’s Mark Scott: and now for the good news
ABC managing director Mark Scott has taken on critics in a speech at the National Press Club who suggest that his leadership has been more about technology than about quality news content.
Is the ABC kowtowing to China’s censorship?
The ABC’s decision not to air a doco about Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer has prompted the Oz to question whether the move was motivated by the broadcaster’s new focus on “soft diplomacy” with other nations.
Newspaper Publishers’ Assn: ABC 24/7 is a complete waste of money
Newspaper Publishers’ Association CEO Mark Hollands hits out against ABC chief Mark Scott’s plans to start a 24-hour ABC news channel in a delightfully bitchy op-ed in today’s SMAge.
Mark Scott: In defence of 24-hour news
ABC chief Mark Scott hits back against critics who say the braodcaster’s recently announced 24-hour news channel violates the ABC charter: read the damn thing.
Crikey Says: The 24/7 ABC must do the hard yards
The central question that should always be applied to any new initiative that the ABC rolls out is “what’s in it for us”?
ABC v Sky News smackdown: it’s on!
The ABC’s announcement of a 24/7 news channel today just ramped up the battle between public broadcasters and commercial services. Let’s get it on, c’mon!
Simons: Content makers come to grips with the big grapple
Margaret Simons’s round-up of this year’s biggest media industry news, movers, shakers and changes.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Worst. Editorial. Ever.
Crikey readers: not fans of Friday’s editorial on race and immigration. Plus responses from Melbourne Uni and the ABC’s Mark Scott.
The future of journalism? Actual journalists
For all the discussion from Australia’s best media minds about the future of news in this country, few are offering any grand ideas on how to fund real quality, investigative journalism, says Marni Cordell.
Scott: ABC is right to engage with our region
The ABC has been in the business of “soft diplomacy” for 70 years without becoming a state broadcasting or government propaganda arm, argues ABC managing director Mark Scott.
This is not the time for Mark Scott to build empires
Last week’s speech by ABC managing director Mark Scott advocates the creation of an expensive new ABC global television service as “an important way of putting Australian democracy on display”. But there’s a much more important place for the ABC to do that — at home, writes Eric Beecher.
Summer in November at the ABC: it just shouldn’t happen
Mark Scott has the well-supported ambition of making the ABC into something more than just a national broadcaster. It is starting to happen in some bits, but in others it resembles a sheltered workshop. Part-time current affairs is no longer good enough.
The ABC and Australia’s strategic policy — playing our part
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?
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?
