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November 2024

Joe Rogan, Kim Williams and Elon Musk.

ABC chairman cops ‘watch out’ messages after Joe Rogan criticism

Asked what the ABC could learn from Joe Rogan, the most popular podcast presenter on Spotify, ABC chairman Kim Williams didn’t hold back.

Adam Suckling, the CEO of the Copytight Agency, says that the NSW government is the only in Australia not to pay fair compensation.

Kim Williams’ protege in the lead for ACMA role

Widely expected to eventually replace Creina Chapman is authority member Adam Suckling.

Sally Sara has been named the new host of Radio National’s Breakfast program.

Sally Sara named host of a new-look ABC breakfast show

The chairman has said Radio National should emulate the BBC’s Radio 4, which reaches more than 10 per cent of the UK population each week.

August 2024

Kim Williams wants to achieve hard, fast and bold reform of the ABC.

Kim Williams’ ‘harder, faster, bolder’ ABC plan claims first casualty

Kim Williams has been outspoken about the ABC’s shortcomings and has a history of radical change. Now, MD David Anderson is giving up his $1.2 million role.

June 2024

ABC chair Kim Williams.

Kim Williams shares Paul Keating’s lesson on art of persuasion

The ABC’s new 72-year-old chairman plans to use a speech next week to argue a tsunami of American and British content is diluting Australian culture.

January 2024

Kim Williams as the Prime Minister announces he will be the ABC’s next chairman.

A short history of nearly everything Kim Williams has said on the ABC

It’d take a book to compile incoming ABC chair Kim Williams’ thoughts on the ABC – luckily he did that; Kerry Stokes’ The Nightly poaches from News Corp

August 2020

Peter Tonagh will sit on the board of the new AAP.

The News Corp survivor who helped save AAP

This week, AAP 2.0 begins its new life. The former News Corp and Foxtel CEO has played a vital role in the efforts to rescue the newswire from the brink of death.

December 2019

Uccello at the Ivy drew a strong lunch contingent on Tuesday.

Lunch watch: Life after News Corp

It's six days to Christmas, meaning very few long lunches remain in 2019.

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