Two key veterans Grant Marshall and Tim Morris at 7NEWS Adelaide get the axe amid staff cuts

7NEWS Adelaide is reeling after two long-serving staff were made redundant and reporters have been given what they see as an unreasonable demand.

7NEWS anchor Mike Smithson with Grant Marshall. Picture: Claudio Raschella

Two of Adelaide’s most experienced TV camera operators have been let go by the Seven Network and its reporters are being told to forget about ratings and concentrate on making TikTok videos.

As part of nationwide mass redundancies, 7NEWS Adelaide’s chief cameraman Grant Marshall, who has more than four decades of experience, has been made redundant – along with Tim Morris, who has been with Seven for more than 28 years.

Sources have told The Advertiser the two were told they had been made redundant on Tuesday, May 25.

One industry insider said they received emails in the morning and were then called into a meeting with new 7NEWS Adelaide news director Mark Mooney, who would have been on the road with both during his time as a reporter.

Grant Marshall Picture: Claudio Raschella

Channel 7 Adelaide news director Mark Mooney.

Seven Adelaide’s Vikki Friscic and an HR person were also believed to have been in the meeting.

The same source also said camera operators at Channel 9 had recently been told editing would be added to their duties and that further jobs in the Seven newsroom were believed to be in jeopardy.

It is understood there would be minimal other redundancies.

Adelaide’s commercial TV networks – Seven, Nine and Ten – are also said to be trialling sharing vision filmed at press conferences, rather than each station sending out their own camera operators.

Another source said reporters had been informed that ratings no longer matter, and there were reports at the weekend that 7NEWS staff nationally were now required to make TikTok content for every story they filed.

The source said reporters were not happy about this news.

The Seven Network has been contacted for comment.