Is Mark Scott, the newish managing director of the ABC, nursing delusions of grandeur? Fresh from announcing new editorial standards for the organisation to reduce bias, Mr Scott has tangled with Labor Senator Stephen Conroy over his use of the title “editor-in-chief”.
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October 31, 2006
Mr Scott goes to Canberra (Crikey)
October 30, 2006
Cruise line kicks TV crew off ship (The Age)
P&O boots Today Tonight crew off ship in Vanuatu after allegedly covertly filming passengers.
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Award winning anchor to present Al Jazeera’s Asia-Pacific show (The Peninsula)
DOHA • Al Jazeera International has announced that award winning news anchor Teymoor Nabili will present its flagship Asia-Pacific current affairs show, 101 East.
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October 28, 2006
Saturday October 28, 2006 (The New Zealand Herald)
Former One News presenter Judy Bailey says her $800,000 salary was based on her “brand”, but it still hurt when the public found out how much she was being paid.
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October 27, 2006
Automatic Machinima News-Broadcasting (Slashdot)
MattSparkes writes “Researchers claim to have produced software that automatically generates timely video news bulletins, presented by computer-animated characters, which could revolutionise current affairs broadcasting. The system, called News at Seven, takes RSS news feeds and does some formatting before passing it to an avatar from Half-Life 2 to read out. Based on keywords, the system also
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October 26, 2006
Tunisia closes embassy in Qatar over Al-Jazeera ‘campaign’ (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Tunisia closed its embassy in Doha in protest at what it called a “hostile campaign” against it by the Qatar-based satellite channel Al-Jazeera, the Tunisian foreign ministry said.
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October 25, 2006
John Cameron tells ABC staff: Unions are putting your jobs on the line (Crikey)
Do ABC staff have more to lose than gain from striking? Yes, says ABC New and Current Affairs director John Cameron. The rest of this article is for the Crikey Army only. If you’d like to join us, you can sign up for a Free Trial or a Subscription below.
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October 24, 2006
Council ‘whistle blower’ settles (BBC News)
A former council housing worker settles her long-running claim for constructive dismissal.
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October 23, 2006
Fugitive Producer to Offer TV Show (New York Times)
Garth H. Drabinsky, who is starting a television reality show in Canada called ?Triple Sensation,? has been a fugitive from American justice since 1999.
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October 21, 2006
White pupils less tolerant, survey shows (Guardian Unlimited)
White youths are more likely to believe they are superior to those from other races, and their attitudes are more of a barrier to integration than those of Muslims, a study for the government has found.
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