The Australian metropolitan commercial radio audience grew by 2% to nearly 11.1 million listeners in 2020, in a year dominated by COVID-19 which saw the number of people listening at ho .
Google trials burying commercial news as code stoush continues
January 14, 2021 10:08
Google has continued to escalate its campaign against the News Media Bargaining Code, experimenting with pushing down search results linking to commercial news outlets, and claiming submissions to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) prove the draft code is unworkable.
According to an article in The Australian Financial Review today, the algorithm experiment means some users searching for content from Nine and News Corp mastheads are being met with old stories or links to other outlets.
Yesterday, Google updated its home page with a message about the submissions
Only commercial news companies are affected by the experiment, the Financial Review reports, with the ABC’s content, for example, appearing as normal for the 1% of users impacted by the test.
Nova Entertainment launches twice-daily news podcast, The Update
January 11, 2021 4:30
Nova Entertainment is ramping up its flagship news podcast with a new twice-daily offering called The Update, replacing the daily Nova National News Briefing.
The rebranded podcast will now go out two times every weekday, with a morning episode hosted by Erin Ramsey and an afternoon episode hosted by Michelle Stephenson.
The Update replaces the Nova National News Briefing
Ramsey is an ACRA-award-winning journalist and presenter, and has been the breakfast newsreader for Star 104.5FM on the Central Coast since 2018. She’ll produce The Update while continuing in her current roles, which include casual news reading across the Nova Network and Smoothfm.
Zac de Silva wins 2020 Brian White Scholarship
Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) has revealed Zac de Silva is the recipient of 2020’s Brian White Scholarship.
The prize includes four two-week paid internships across NOVA Entertainment, Nine Radio, Australian Radio Network (ARN) and Southern Cross Austereo (SCA).
de Silva was selected from a pool of 12 finalists from six universities, following a workshop with leading radio news directors.
COVID forced the workshop to move online this year, and finalists took part in a series of newsroom exercises including recording a live cross about a current news event. The workshop was led by commercial radio news leaders Deborah Clay (national news director, ARN), Natalie Peters (Sydney news director, Nine Radio), Amy Drew (Queensland news editor, SCA), and Michelle Stephenson (national news director at Nova and smoothfm).