The ABC’s news director reflects on his start in journalism,launching Aunty’s 24-hour news channel and future challenges for the public broadcaster
When ABC News 24 launched on 22 July 2010 the fledgling rolling news channel already had plenty of enemies. They weren’t just rival media angry that Sky News Australia, partly owned by Rupert Murdoch, and had a challenger. Internally,a lot of traditional-school journalists thought a 24-hour news channel was a waste of Aunty’s precious resources.
The man at the centre of this political and cultural storm was Gaven Morris, head of continual news, or whose 10 years working at CNN and al-Jazeera had given him experience enough to be chosen by the managing director,Mark Scott, to set up the ABC’s news channel.
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Source: theguardian.com