December 2024
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- Media & marketing
Former Nine boss Hugh Marks to lead ABC
The executive who pulled off the broadcaster’s merger with Fairfax and helped lobby for big tech to pay for Australian content starts his new job in March.
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- Zoe Samios
November 2024
- Opinion
- Podcasts
Memo to Kim Williams and the ABC: This is the age of ‘bro’ podcasts
Men are tired of the superficiality and bias in so much of the mainstream media. They’re going to alternative platforms to get what they want.
- John Anderson
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.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Kim Williams’ protege in the lead for ACMA role
Widely expected to eventually replace Creina Chapman is authority member Adam Suckling.
- Myriam Robin
August 2024
- Opinion
- Senate estimates
It’s time to civilise the inquisition of Senate estimates
Hearings that were meant to drill into policy detail have become a scattergun questioning of officials used to settle scores, or make cheap political points.
- Laura Tingle
June 2024
- Analysis
- Culture wars
In Australia, Tucker Carlson finds a new enemy: the ABC
The right-wing commentator wrongly accused the ABC of criticising him, in another example of how on society’s fringe the market for alternate realities runs strong.
- Aaron Patrick
The ABC’s version of Love Island? Don’t adjust your TV set
Leaked memo reveals ambitions for public broadcaster to launch reality TV shows.
- Mark Di Stefano
February 2024
Dutton’s tax dance sets up election battleground
As the opposition leader scrambles to pull the Coalition out of Labor’s tax trap, Peter Dutton has guaranteed the battle for middle income earners is not over.
- Phillip Coorey
January 2024
- Opinion
- Byelection
Like it or not, the Middle East runs through our politics
The Dunkley by-election will be fought and lost on kitchen table issues. But it is a distant conflict that is piling pressure on political parties and even the national broadcaster.
- Laura Tingle
December 2023
ABC cuts Q+A schedule by 40pc in 2024
After a tumultuous year involving the departure of host Stan Grant and contentious discussions about Israel and Gaza, the show has been cut to 24 episodes for next year.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
November 2023
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Journalists can’t be writers and activists
The willingness of reporters and editors to sign anti-Israel petitions calls into question their professional independence.
- Michael Gawenda
October 2023
ABC redundancy payouts leapt fivefold, annual report reveals
The ABC’s latest annual report, tabled in parliament on Friday, reveals the public broadcaster spent $22 million to pay out exiting staff.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Judge lashes ABC’s PR strategies
It’s all fun and games to fire off at gadfly commentators. Doing so at judges, even if only by implication, is an altogether dicier proposition.
- Myriam Robin
- Exclusive
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Former ABC director urges broadcaster for impartiality on Israel
The Melbourne-based businessman is concerned about the impact a spurt of anti-semitism is having on communities and children.
- Samantha Hutchinson
September 2023
SBS has a new content plan to speak to all Australians
More than 5 million Australians speak a language other than English at home and SBS can now switch seamlessly into more than 60 languages.
- Mark Di Stefano
Assess presenters one by one to halt audience fall: ABC Radio review
Virginia Trioli’s Melbourne morning show shed audience rapidly. Now an internal report has called for a major overhaul of its capital city stations.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
August 2023
Ita Buttrose to step down from ABC
The government now has three roles to fill on the public broadcaster’s board, after the chairwoman said she would not seek a second term.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
July 2023
Star host Stan Grant leaves Q&A permanently
The high profile Indigenous broadcaster will not return to his gig hosting current affairs debate show Q&A, and will instead pursue other projects at the ABC.
- Nick Bonyhady and Mark Di Stefano
ABC, battered by criticism, tracks Voice coverage down to the second
The national broadcaster has an internal tool where staff have to report who they feature – and who declines to participate – in stories on the Voice.
- Nick Bonyhady
- Exclusive
- Media & marketing
Less than 8pc of the ABC’s flagship news viewers are under 40
And more than 70 per cent of the audience for Insiders and Q&A are over 55, leaked data shows. The broadcaster has been scrambling to pursue younger audiences.
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- Mark Di Stefano