Business of Media
Top marketers on how firms can use AI to enhance creativity and productivity
An explosion of new generative AI tools in recent weeks brings the technology into sharp focus among executives, reports The Australian’s Kate Racovolis.
Advertising agency leaders, chief marketing officers, business strategists and AI experts explain the risks and opportunities for firms.
News Brands
WAtoday journalists claim four gongs at state’s media awards
WAtoday business journalist Peter Milne has picked up three top honours at the state’s leading media awards, including for his “deep dive” investigation into US mining giant Alcoa’s operations in Western Australia, reports Nine Publishing.
Colleague Hamish Hastie also scooped The Beck Prize for best political report.
Milne, who won best business, economics or finance report, the Matt Price Prize for best columnist and the best news coverage award, beat tough competition in his categories from The West Australian and ABC.
Opinion: The ABC must not betray its sources by surrendering footage from tonight’s Four Corners
Tonight, the ABC’s Four Corners will air an investigation into the escalating response from Western Australia’s authorities to climate campaigners opposing the biggest fossil fuel project in the country, Woodside’s Burrup Hub. In response, the WA Police Force (and WA Police Minister Paul Papalia) have ordered the ABC to hand over all the footage Four Corners captured while producing the story, as though to prove the point of the program before it’s even aired, reports Crikey’s Jesse Noakes.
Incredibly, the ABC appears to be entertaining the idea of surrendering the footage to police, despite the objections of their staff, the media union, a host of civil society groups, and the sources for their story — of which I am one, as media adviser for the Disrupt Burrup Hub campaign. The ABC’s managing director David Anderson has said the broadcaster never has and never will reveal sources, but has not explicitly ruled out handing the vision to the police.
Television
The Professor is coming to The Chase
A new Chaser is coming to The Chase in 2024. Quiz champion and question writer David Poltorak, who won Sale of the Century in 1986, including setting three records, reports TV Tonight.
Seven sources confirmed to TV Tonight he will feature on The Chase as The Professor in 2024.
The Voice judge Jason Derulo accused of sexual misconduct
Jason Derulo, a judge on Seven’s The Voice singing competition show, has been accused by a US singer of asking for sexual favours in return for help with her career, reports Nine Publishing’s Kerrie O’Brien.
Emaza Gibson, who goes by the stage name Emaza Dilan, filed a lawsuit on Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, accusing the singer of aggressive behaviour, harassment and unwanted sexual advances. The charges date back to a series of offences allegedly committed in 2021 and 2022.
Derulo joined The Voice as a judge this year and is coaching one of four contestants in Sunday’s grand finale. In a social media post, Derulo said the claims were false and hurtful.
10 News First returning to one hour, plus late news bulletin returns, in 2024
10 News First will revert to a 60 minute bulletin in 2024 and reintroduce a late night news bulletin, reports TV Tonight.
A Network 10 spokesperson told TV Tonight, “News staff at Network 10 have been informed that there will be greater focus on News in 2024.
“10 News First will return to a one-hour bulletin from 5pm to 6pm weeknights and Network 10 will welcome back a late news bulletin which will be available as a digital offering first on 10 Play then broadcast on 10. Network 10 will continue to produce 90 minutes of news nightly. Additional exciting programming changes will be announced later in October.”
Sports Media
Who’s to blame for News Corp’s $75m gambling problem?
News Corp has descended into finger-pointing and blame-shifting as senior executives reckon with how the media company burned through tens of millions of dollars on online bookmaker Betr, report Nine Publishing’s Zoe Samios, Sam Buckingham-Jones and Mark Di Stefano.
The Murdoch-led company invested alongside seasoned bookmaker Matt Tripp and betting tech company Tekkorp to found Betr in April last year, part of a strategic push across the business into online gambling.
According to more than a dozen sources within News Corp and the betting venture, problems emerged before the start-up even launched. They described how a key early investor dropping out prompted a series of cascading problems with how the venture would be funded.