Strangling Aunty

Perilous Times for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Virginia Small

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Palgrave Macmillan
28 September 2022

Film, TV & Radio; Media studies; Radio & television industry

Drawing on a wealth of academic research, statistics and interviews with key Australian media people including present and former Australian Broadcasting Corporation staffers, this book explores the transitions of the ABC under various types of organisational re-strategising, governance and political shifts.

The book provides the reader with an authoritative narrative as to how the ABC has lost its iconic status in Australian society, and unfolds how the ABC has strayed from its respected public charter which endowed the ABC with a distinctive and important role in informing, educating and entertaining the Australian public. Successive federal government funding cuts have shrunk staffing levels and services while it has pursued a corporatist model that mimics the trappings and practices of commercial media. In that process it has become politicised and trivialised, thereby threatening its demise. The book is a unique and timely contribution at a time of dwindling interest for the funding of public assets everywhere. There is no other book in the market that addresses the decline of the organisation (the ABC) and analyses the reasons for its demise within an organisational theoretical framework. The book is written for an educated general audience, with academics and media practitioners specifically in mind, and has everyday applications for business organisations operating in the public sector by bringing together important findings of public funding, budgets, management and organisational strategies and evolution.

By: Virginia Small
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Singapore
Edition: 1st ed. 2021
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 1.418kg
ISBN: 9789811607783
ISBN 10: 9811607788
Pages: 1105
Publication Date: 28 September 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Managing the ABC.- Chapter 3: Funding the ABC.- Chapter 4: What ideas rule?.- Chapter 5: Losing the brand in the Australian media landscape.- Chapter 6: Political influences on the ABC.- Chapter 7: Future options and conclusion.

Dr Virginia Small is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Business at UNSW ADFA Canberra and has worked at the ABC for over 18 years in a variety of broadcasting roles, prior to that she was also a finance journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald and a money market reporter at Australian Associated Press. At the ABC she was a respected newsreader and economics journalist, and produced and presented a high-rating business program on Radio National. As a news broadcaster and journalist, she gained a day-to-day insight into the goings-on of the ABC and the changes of management and its impact. She has a doctoral degree in communication, a master’s degree in professional communication and a master’s in literature.