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New ABC chief Michelle Guthrie has been in the job for a week. We asked a range of experts what she needs to do to improve news and current affairs coverage, boost local content and strengthen digital services.
The ABC’s new chief, who took over last week, has identified improving diversity at the broadcaster as a top priority. This is long overdue - the BBC has already tackled the issue from the top down.
On reform, the 2016-17 budget is a holding one, with tinkering on the sides.
Mark Scott will hand to Michelle Guthrie a much-transformed ABC – one that does the same things in very new ways.
The ABC isn’t to blame for the crisis in commercial media, but they could be part of the solution.
If the word “reform” implies genuine public benefit, then real reform has been in short supply for all of the 106 years of electronic media regulation in Australia.
The fact that Communications Minister Mitch Fifield has got a package of changes to Australia’s media laws this far is remarkable considering the ill-fated recent history of attempts at media reform.
ABC managing director Mark Scott’s recent speech to the National Press Club today had the quietly confident tone of a CEO who knows he’s leaving his organisation in broadly better shape than he found it…
The ABC is in the midst of something that’s very rare in media circles and rarer still in Canberra – a well-planned, warm-spirited CEO transition.
The best way to guard against shark attacks is to study them, not kill them. Because while the alleged “shark boom” almost certainly not real, the more we know about sharks, the better.
It’s been reported as an issue of “false balance” but a secret recording of senior ABC editorial staff discussing NBN coverage raises broader questions about ethics and news judgement.
The kinds of voices that can be used in a show like ABC’s The Divorce are certainly not typical of those one would hear in Madama Butterfly. But – and let’s be honest for a second – does it matter?
By drawing on interviews with perpetrators and their ex-partners and police evidence, a common discrepancy in victim and perpetrator accounts of domestic and family violence becomes blatantly obvious.
Part one of the ABC’s Hitting Home provides an insight into the work of those responding to domestic violence on the front line – including police, courts, refuges, and a specialist forensic unit.
Despite Australia squandering $43 million on a failed bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the Lowy football dynasty lives on.
We know the ABC is facing tough times, given the decision last year to cut its budget by A$254 million over five years. But how hard are those cuts falling on locally-produced children’s TV?
Former prime ministers Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott have in common highly negative views about the media, according to ABC journalist Sarah Ferguson.
The evidence suggests too much medicine is doing us harm, particularly when treating knee pain, back pain, chest pain and screening for prostate cancer.
Journalists commonly make three errors when it comes to speaking about objectivity in their craft.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Journalism, RMIT University
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PhD candidate in media and communications, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Communication, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor in Convergent and Online Media, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Media and Communication, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Political Communication; Director CAJ, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Film Screen & Animation, Queensland University of Technology
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Former Honorary Research Associate, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University