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Funding Plea to Stop ABC Losing Its Voice in Pacific

Australia’s national news broadcaster says more funding is needed to make an impact in the Pacific region after years of cuts leading to service shutdowns. The ABC’s head of international services, Claire Gorman, warned Australia could be left behind in the race for soft diplomacy against other nations, revealing the ABC allocates only $11 million…


ABC Boss Apologises to Stan Grant After Q&A Call

Managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) David Anderson has apologised to journalist Stan Grant after he stepped away from his role as host of the Q&A program, citing exhaustion with persistent racial abuse. “Stan has our full support. And he has always had our full support,” Anderson wrote in an email to ABC…


‘General Hospital’ Star Jacklyn Zeman Dies at 70

Jacklyn Zeman, an actress best known for her role as nurse Bobbie Spencer on the daytime soap opera “General Hospital,” has died of cancer, her family confirmed on Wednesday. She was 70. Frank Valentini, the executive producer of what is America’s longest-running soap opera currently in production, confirmed Zeman’s death Wednesday night in a statement…


FiveThirtyEight Founder Nate Silver ‘Leaving’ ABC News

Pollster Nate Silver’s data-driven politics and journalism brand FiveThirtyEight will be impacted by Disney’s new wave of layoffs, he wrote on Tuesday. Silver wrote in a tweet, “Disney layoffs have substantially impacted FiveThirtyEight. I am sad and disappointed to a degree that’s kind of hard to express right now.” Silver suggested in a Twitter post…


LIVE NOW: NTD News Today (April 17): ‘They Train AI to Lie’: Elon Musk and Experts; Lawmakers Demand Answers on Pentagon Leak

Elon Musk sounds another chilly warning about artificial intelligence. He says programmers are training AI to lie. Lawmakers are demanding answers on the Pentagon document leak. They want to know how a 21-year-old airman was given access to highly classified intelligence materials. Twitter is labeling media outlets around the world if it finds that they’re somehow…


NTD News Today (April 17): ‘They Train AI to Lie’: Elon Musk and Experts; Lawmakers Demand Answers on Pentagon Leak

Elon Musk sounds another chilly warning about artificial intelligence. He says programmers are training AI to lie. Lawmakers are demanding answers on the Pentagon document leak. They want to know how a 21-year-old airman was given access to highly classified intelligence materials. Twitter is labeling media outlets around the world if it finds that they’re somehow…


Chinese-Made Cameras Found at ABC’s Headquarters in Sydney

Surveillance equipment made by companies linked to China’s communist regime has been found at Australia’s national broadcaster and is being dismantled, an internal audit has confirmed. Cameras made by Hikvision and Dahua were found to have been installed at Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)’s headquarters in Ultimo, Sydney and two other locations. An ABC spokesman said…


Labor Under Scrutiny for Billion Dollar Public Spending Blowout

Deputy Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley has criticised Labor for lacking constraints in spending following the centre-left government’s move to double the tax on superannuation earnings for balances over A$3 million. She alleged that Labor is already spending A$115 billion extra over the forward estimates and that the recent super tax changes would raise…


National Broadcaster to Re-Train Journalists on Impartiality After Pressure Over “Inaccurate” Alice Springs Report

Reporters from Australia’s national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), will undergo impartiality training when covering news about the controversial Indigenous Voice proposal. The move comes after the country’s largest taxpayer-funded media outline faced heavy backlash for its reports on the Alice Springs community meeting in January, which its Ombudsman office has ruled as “impartial”…


ABC’s Coverage of Alice Springs’ Meeting Inaccurate, Partial: ABC Ombudsman’s Office

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has violated impartiality and accuracy standards in its radio report on the Alice Springs community meeting, the newly created ABC Ombudsman’s office found. The ABC’s flagship radio program AM on Jan. 31 aired a report in which it accused locals worried about the alcohol-fulled crime wave in the remote community of…