ABC loses Doctor Who rights after BBC signs deal with Disney
All new seasons of the show will stream exclusively on Disney+ outside the UK and Ireland
April 2019
Netflix won't tell Australian stories. We need the ABC for that, says Mark Scott
Reality TV is a poor relation to telling Australian stories the way drama does, former ABC managing director says
April 2017
Kim Dalton accuses ABC TV of shifting funds from Australian content
Former ABC TV head says lack of transparency, more than budget cuts, is to blame for neglect of local drama, and Indigenous, documentary and children’s programming
September 2016
ABC loses first executive of Michelle Guthrie's reign, as Angela Clark quits
The weekly beast
Fairfax's food section gets by with a little help from its friends
Amanda Meade
June 2016
Former ABC head Mark Scott to head Australia's largest education department
New South Wales premier Mike Baird announces Scott will take over as head of education department, overseeing 49,000 teachers and 790,000 students
April 2016
ABC failing to reflect racial diversity of modern Australia, says Mark Scott
Outgoing ABC chief Mark Scott takes parting shot at Murdoch empire
March 2016
Don't blame the ABC for problems of commercial media, says Mark Scott
Outgoing managing director rejects claims the ABC should stay out of digital sphere, or that it poses a financial threat to commercial media organisations
February 2016
The weekly beast
The Weekly Beast: ABC braces for budget cuts as Mark Scott exits
Amanda Meade
National broadcaster briefs producers, Fairfax Media cuts cartoonists and the Australian praises Chris Uhlmann for striking ‘a blow for freedom of speech’
Mark Scott lets fly at $350m cut to ABC funding by Abbott government
Outgoing managing director dismisses ABC’s critics as ‘newspaper polemicists and shock jocks’ and warns governments are the greatest threat to the ABC
Fair, accurate and balanced? The ABC of the NBN reporting saga
Richard Ackland
Mark Scott denies ABC let political pressure influence NBN coverage
ABC boss Mark Scott questions whether Australia still needs SBS
January 2016
The weekly beast
The Weekly Beast: police deflate Gold Coast Bulletin's Underbelly-inspired scoop
Amanda Meade
Former ABC managing director Brian Johns dies aged 79
December 2015
New ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie declines to rule out advertising
Google executive Michelle Guthrie to be named as ABC managing director
Eric Abetz's close-to-extinction howl at the media: it doesn't get much more predictable than this
Richard Ackland
ABC’s Mark Scott defends Middle East reporter Sophie McNeill – video
