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Editor/EP of @7ampodcast || Former: ABC Audio Current Affairs, Producer of #YouCantAskThat, Hungry Beast https://t.co/YMoOO1dDwo
May 29, 2024 15 tweets 3 min read
May I give interested parties an insight into the collective mind of the ABC.

Or something some might call ‘ABC Brain’.

abc.net.au/about/media-ce… First, it’s important to know there might be many hands in this statement.

But importantly, from the ABC perspective, this statement would be believed to be ‘sticking by their journalists’

— I know that sounds weird, bare with me as we go through the looking glass.
Dec 23, 2023 12 tweets 2 min read
At the start of last week, ABC restructuring led to a string of redundancies at Triple j.

I learned that in the aftermath, came resignations elsewhere.

In a single week, the ABC lost cohort of younger leaders, expect to drive change. What was going on?

thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/media/202… Six months into the restructure, it seemed like a good time to take stock.

The new head of content, Chris Oliver-Taylor told me, of some of the younger women in leadership positions who had left staff, “I wish they were staying.”