Public interest journalism shows us who we are. To allow it to die off is an unforgivable dereliction of duty
‘Meta’s contemptuous spit at Australian news producers, announcing it will no longer pay for the news content it splashes across its social media platforms, really rankles.’‘Meta’s contemptuous spit at Australian news producers, announcing it will no longer pay for the news content it splashes across its social media platforms, really rankles.’once rang a Catholic convent in Melbourne to ask if the sister in charge might have a comment about IVF surrogacy.
Over three decades I have worked at ABC News, Channel Nine’s A Current Affair and Channel Seven’s Witness. I presented the 7.30 Report in four states, being the youngest woman to get a hosting gig on 7.30 back in 1989. Hello Darwin! My last gig was presenting the ABC TV news in Canberra for 15 years.
Perhaps it’s not surprising that Mark Zuckerberg can’t seem to relate to real news and what type of fake news might fill the vacuum. His version of “real” sits galaxies away from ours. On the very day Facebook pulled the plug on Australia, he was attending aIn 2003, when devastating bushfires swept through the ACT, our Canberra ABC TV newsroom had been up and running for just 18 months. We were still hiring and training staff the dayand four people were trapped and killed.
Later, when I was doing live crosses at the end of Anzac Parade with a sooty haze covering Parliament House behind me, carloads of suddenly homeless Canberrans pulled up, dazed and wondering where to go. I put out a live call. Within minutes, families were on the scene offering spare rooms, clothes, support. And on it went for days. Weeks.
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