Departing ABC managing director Mark Scott says he is open to another ‘big job’
Outgoing ABC managing director, Mark Scott, has signalled he remains open to “big jobs and big opportunities”, as he departs after a decade at the helm of the public broadcaster.
Scott: there will be consequences if news funding is not renewed.
In a wide-ranging interview with Media Watch host, Paul Barry, last night, the 54-year-old managing director spoke about the challenges facing all media, criticisms of political bias and warned of “significant job losses” if the Coalition government failed to renew the additional news funding it received in 2013 under Labor.
On the question of his own future, Scott told Barry:” I’m going to take a break for a while. I have had some good advice on this – it is time to take a break to pause and to reflect – I hope that there are still big jobs and big opportunities that lie ahead for me but at the moment I’m not sure what they are.”
Class. Hard act to follow.
When is someone going to grill Scott on standards? His “legacy” is doing the bleeding obvious (and even then iview, for example, is not nearly as good as it should be in terms of streaming and has less content than SBS). \Fact is the core standards of ABC reporting, its breadth of coverage and its real engagement with Australians is less. Instead we have a 24 hour channel that is awful and a bunch of opiniated web sites that add zero to knowledge and inflate the already soft disciplines of ABC news staff.