{"id":34324,"date":"2018-10-02T07:52:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T11:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=34324"},"modified":"2018-10-02T07:54:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T11:54:28","slug":"michelle-guthrie-sacked-as-board-seeks-fresh-leadership-and-focus-on-long-term-interests-of-abc-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/michelle-guthrie-sacked-as-board-seeks-fresh-leadership-and-focus-on-long-term-interests-of-abc-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Guthrie sacked as board seeks “fresh leadership” and focus on “long-term interests” of ABC engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: The Interpreter<\/a> via Michael Taniwha)<\/p>\n

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Restoring Australia’s Pacific media presence<\/h2>\n

by Kevin McQuillan<\/p>\n

The departure of ABC Managing Director Michelle Guthrie just two-and-a-half years into her five-year term reflects the board\u2019s decision to seek “fresh leadership”, according to Chairman Justin Milne.\u00a0Announcing\u00a0<\/a>Guthrie\u2019s sacking today, Milne said \u201cthe board\u2019s foremost consideration was the long-term interests of our own people and the millions of Australians who engage with ABC content every week\u201d.<\/p>\n

What Milne didn\u2019t talk about was the millions of listeners, viewers and online visitors to the ABC who have been lost since the federal government and the ABC itself made cuts to its international output. The appointment of a new Managing Director opens up the opportunity for Guthrie’s replacement to re-engage the ABC with its international audience, particularly in the Pacific.<\/p>\n

As respected former international broadcasting executives Ian MacIntosh and Bruce Dover\u00a0pointed out\u00a0<\/a>last month on The Interpreter: “Australia\u2019s international voice, once strong, influential and broadcast across much of the Asia Pacific, has become little more than a croak into the ether.”<\/p>\n

The demise of a strong Australian media voice throughout the Pacific has seen Radio NZ Pacific (formerly Radio NZ International) become the dominant international media outlet in the south-west Pacific, Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. Lurking in the background is Radio China International, which has\u00a0taken\u00a0<\/a>many of the ABC\u2019s shortwave frequencies, and is\u00a0reportedly\u00a0<\/a>spending billions in foreign language programming to boost its presence.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article at The Interpreter.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: The Interpreter via Michael Taniwha) Restoring Australia’s Pacific media presence by Kevin McQuillan The departure of ABC Managing Director Michelle Guthrie just two-and-a-half years into her five-year term reflects the board\u2019s decision to seek “fresh leadership”, according to Chairman Justin Milne.\u00a0Announcing\u00a0Guthrie\u2019s sacking today, Milne said \u201cthe board\u2019s foremost consideration was the long-term interests of […]<\/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":[86,2742,2427,5228,259,34],"class_list":["post-34324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-abc","tag-australian-broadcasting-corporation","tag-michael-taniwha","tag-michelle-guthrie","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8VC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24460,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/michelle-guthrie-abc-cut-shortwave-to-operate-within-funding-envelop\/","url_meta":{"origin":34324,"position":0},"title":"Michelle Guthrie: ABC cut shortwave to operate within “funding envelop”","author":"Thomas","date":"March 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: The Guardian via Phil Brennan) The ABC\u2019s managing director, Michelle Guthrie, has told Senate estimates she believes it is not her job to lobby government for more funding for the broadcaster but to work within the budget she is given. 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