{"id":10277,"date":"2014-07-15T07:27:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T11:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10277"},"modified":"2014-07-15T07:27:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T11:27:05","slug":"crikey-english-language-staff-may-be-cut-from-radio-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/crikey-english-language-staff-may-be-cut-from-radio-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Crikey: English language staff may be cut from Radio Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Phil, who found a little more information about the cuts to\u00a0Radio Australia. He points us to the following quote from the news site, Crikey<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“Around 80 staff will be made redundant from the ABC, the Commonwealth Public Sector Union and an ABC spokesman have confirmed, however this figure may decrease once redeployment options are explored.<\/p>\n

A Radio Australia staff member told\u00a0Crikey<\/em>\u00a025 editorial jobs will go, while seven people in operations will also be sacked. Staff have been told that this will include the entire English-language division of Radio Australia, which the CPSU has confirmed. All casuals and contract staff will be dropped. Asked if this number of redundancies would have a large impact on Radio Australia, a staff member told\u00a0Crikey<\/em>\u00a0they amounted to \u201cgutting\u201d the network. It\u2019s understood just 30 staff will be retained in the division, with cuts in content expected. Flagship program The World will be reduced to a half-hour program.”<\/p>\n

[Continue reading on\u00a0Crikey<\/a>…]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I will post future updates on the cuts to Radio Australia with the tag:\u00a0RA Cuts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Phil, who found a little more information about the cuts to\u00a0Radio Australia. He points us to the following quote from the news site, Crikey: “Around 80 staff will be made redundant from the ABC, the Commonwealth Public Sector Union and an ABC spokesman have confirmed, however this figure may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3,43],"tags":[2924,2742,3114,368,1920],"class_list":["post-10277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-abc-cuts","tag-australian-broadcasting-corporation","tag-ra-cuts","tag-radio-australia","tag-radio-australia-cuts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2FL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10285,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/abc-radio-staff-memo-outlines-cuts-to-external-service\/","url_meta":{"origin":10277,"position":0},"title":"ABC Radio staff memo outlines cuts to external service","author":"Thomas","date":"July 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0Jonathan Marks, who has posted a letter by Michael Mason (Acting Director of ABC Radio) to the staff of ABC. 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