ABC boss Hugh Marks holds court on Lattouf, Bluey and Q+A

ABC General Manager Hugh Marks organized a round table meeting of the country’s media reporters to organize the plan for the direction of the national publisher who seems to be the first step in Marx’s attempt to define his time in the office.

The meeting was held in a room called Neville Bonner, former politician and ABC President Neville Bonner, who was the first Aboriginal member of Parliament, and a series of sandwiches from Sydney Cafe and Catering Enterprise were given to the participants.

In the room, Marks, ABC Entertainment President Jennifer Collins, editorial director Gavin Fang, Audio Ben Latimer Director and News Director Justin Stevens. In addition, ABC Communication Chairman Freya Campbell, where the meeting also had some kind of presentation for many people in the room, recently took over from Nick Leys. left The role in ten years later in this year.

Marks discussed the room for 15 minutes, saying that he wanted to repeat many of the basic themes of the last Town Hall address to the media without consulting any note, without consulting any note. ABC’s IVIW, ABC listening and news digital (online news content) centered a desire to progress towards a simplified “three product strategy”.

“This also means that we will simplify the main page. We are currently running two home pages. We will be a front door and the front door will be basically directed by the news as its main function.” The ABC News website is the country’s best -selling digital news brand, and since December 2024, news.com.au.

Asked Crirase After Antoinette Lattouf Saga, Marks said to the members of the ABC board of directors after the organization, when he arrived at the organization, he could see the impact of the inconsistent management structure on the work ”.

“I wanted all our teams to focus on their work every day without unnecessary distraction or lack of responsibility.

“It was very clear for me, I had to really be intact to make sure that the correct reporting lines were in place and would be respected… Kim (Williams, ABC Chairman) is an absolute angry agreement.

“I am constantly awake to make sure that this is respected and has an area that will do the jobs of the people around the table and how important it is for the organization and all staff – not just my team – all of them have to feel it and I hope this is a change of culture that I can achieve early.”

Asked Australia Financial Review Sam Buckingham-Jones is about whether ABC has a new directive to solve legal lawsuits faster cost Marks from the Lattouf, said that in the future ABC will try to find decisions that are both more appropriate and cheaper.

Marks, “We will always make mistakes – all media organizations do this,” he said.

“We have it and act accordingly and we try to correct it very early, so we do not sue long, expensive. As a team – everyone as a philosophy… You have to wait and see if we have entered another long, complex case, but if we do it, I want to think that it will be for the right reasons.”

Justification question of the death of the panel discussion show Q+AEarlier this year, it spread about twenty years later. Guardian Australia’s Amanda meade. At the summit, the program had more than half a million viewers and was extremely effective in Australian politics dictating the agenda of the week.

“When it is started, [it was] Agenda journalism based on society effectively or interpretation or discussion. And I think it was perfect. I think he had stopped being bright for this purpose. “

“We will find something that will not be Q+ABut you will recognize this as the same genre ..

News Boss Justin Stevens Q+A Designed, it was reflecting the “a moment in time.

“Twitter was in infancy, and people were a constructive place where you could have a solid debate and disagreement without going into their silent world views.

“We must always be in the town square. We should always have the ability of the people to shop with ruling people. The question is that what is today’s innovative form?”

In addition, ABC’s role in commissioning creative content was discussed. Jennifer Collins, the President of the Entertainment, said that “entertainment with entertainment is around the original formats”.

“We have made it clear that we will invest in original formats, and this is about choosing the original formats that we can really support for the fact that manufacturers have their own IPs and develop shows, and I hope we export these shows to the world.”

Children’s TV Leviathan BlueNaturally, it was a consistent reference subject, but Meade pointed out that there were international distribution rights called “America’s biggest television shows”. kept By BBC.

“Gezi, of course, it would be better if we did Blue The BBC did then, Mark Marx confessed.

“I’ve been in this game for a long time. You don’t know [what’s going to be a hit] When this is a step, but when you start to see the hurries and things, you get a good feeling for things with potential.

“We have been famous as a difficult organization to deal with external producers.

Marks and Collins explain that there is no clarity about the potential promotion of local content quotas, as a problem with Burke ”. Asked Australia James said that the issue of publishing agreements with James Madden, Meta and Google is important from a policy and cultural perspective that platforms accept that platforms are a change for us for us. [being on their platforms]”.

A moment of tension took place at the meeting because Marx was asked. Crirase ABC, especially about the importance and progress of young talents on the screen.

While Marks said that ABC is a “active place in encouraging young people, Stevens has already caught a few young faces that have already come to the fore through the publisher and added that the leader’s leadership really has a proactive speech about the fill roles”. I And to do a “great job”.

Meade, “This is the wrong thing [Antoinette] Lattouf – was chosen to fill, to be various. ”

A moment of pause was kept before Stevens answered, “I think it’s a lazy comparison, because Isabella was incredible” and later added, “ [role] Because he’s a great journalist. ”

Marks was previously nine CEO from 2015 to 2021, and in 2018, it was the country’s largest media company, controlling the merger of Fairfax and the company. Marks’s nine -nine time, a record of a record of $ 1.8 billion with NRL and FOX Sports, and for more than four years, a revolutionary, which has been a revolutionary (and was tranhed at the meeting), a revolutionary, and a revolutionary -seven -seven -seven -seven agreement with seven seven and FOXTEL.

The round table meeting ended with an indication that Marx’s ruling leadership is willing to continue similar meetings in front of the press, which is a significant change in style from the previous administrations in the national publisher.