Counting connections
This seriously hurts my head, so I felt I had to share it. How fast is social media growing? Watch it live! Hat tip: Mark Scott ABC (Australia) Managing Director. Twitter him at abcmarkscott
View ArticleSigh… if only we could
Here’s something we could truly aspire to. Just announced: The ABC will launch Australia’s first free-to-air 24-hour television news channel in 2010. The ABC’s Managing Director, Mark Scott, said the...
View ArticleA thousand journos
As the knife is sharpened for second round cuts to TVNZ, including $5m off the news budget, the ABC’s managing director Mark Scott has given a speech how his organisation maintains a news operation of...
View ArticleAgile and quality media. How do we get it?
Last week’s events in Canberra changing the leadership of the Australian Labor Party were huge from a media perspective. Janet Albrechtsen writes in The Australian how Sky TV News covered the story...
View ArticleThe news is crap #2
I want to believe in our media. I believe the craft of journalism to be an extraordinarily important thing. It is a critical part of our democracy. And it distresses me that I am so critical and that...
View ArticleWhimless
Doesn’t matter what side of politics you’re on, we should all be able to cope having the piss taken. Unfortunately we don’t seem to do it much anymore on TV. What’s happened to all our great...
View ArticleNats axe TVNZ7. Meanwhile in Australia…
$158.1 million extra has been announced this week for the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) will receive new funding to ensure that an estimated 10...
View ArticleIrony: ABC turns 80 as TVNZ7 killed off
Australia’s public broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and affectionately known as Aunty, is celebrating its 80th birthday today. The ABC’s first wireless broadcast was on this day in...
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