Jim Graham had also worked for the ABC in Queensland, at Melbourne radio stations 3MP and 3UZ, 3GL Geelong and Bendigo's 3BO.

He was still presenting the afternoon news until a few weeks ago, when he took leave after suffering a heart attack.

He had been recovering in hospital and at home, but died on the weekend.

Just over half of all Australians (54%) trust journalists, while 32% do not trust them much and 15% do not trust them at all.

The figures come from the latest interactive data made available by the ABC from its national survey of nearly 55,000 people across every State and Territory and in every federal electorate.

Recent immigrants don’t trust journalists very much, but those who have been here longer have more trust. Perhaps this is due to the countries where recent immigrants come from, where media is less free and journalists are less scrupulous.

Dr Norman Swan, Tegan Taylor and Will Ockenden have won a Walkley Award in the Radio/Audio: News & Current Affairs category for Coronacast.

Andrea Ho has joined the Judith Neilson Institute’s executive team as Director, Education.

In August, Andrea was one of many to take a redundancy from the ABC in the latest round of cuts.

She will lead the Institute’s education program, which provides targeted, practical training aimed at broadening the knowledge and improving the skills of working journalists.

From this week the ABC is rebranding its sports coverage under the ABC SPORT banner which sees a renaming of its digital ABC Grandstand station and ABC Grandstand social media accounts to ABC SPORT.

The ‘voice of cricket’,  Jim Maxwell, will once again lead this summer’s ABC cricket coverage starting with the Australia vs India One Day Internationals on 27 November. 

In his first appearance before the Senate estimates committee since early March, ABC Managing Director David Anderson told Senators:

The ABC has partnered with Australia’s first multimedia public space storytelling project, Storybox Parramatta, as the national broadcaster looks to strengthen its presence in Western Sydney.

Snapshots of life in Parramatta from the 1950s and 1960s, drawn from the ABC Archives, forms a central part of the ABC’s contribution to the three dimensional Storybox platform, which launches in Parramatta Square today.

The federal government’s delayed 2020/21 budget, released tonight, is a high spending stimulus plan that hopes to maintain economic activity long enough for Australia to come out of its covid pandemic slump.

radioinfo examines how will it affect broadcasters and associated industries.

The ABC has appointed content executive and creative Jennifer Collins as inaugural Head of Factual & Culture within its Entertainment & Specialist (E&S) division.
 
Jennifer is one of Australia’s most experienced creatives across commercial and public broadcasting, including senior roles previously at the ABC and will lead the development and production of innovative content across genres such as arts, religion, science, education, health, history and social affairs.
 

In October Mottram will relocate to Bega, in south-east NSW, while Lane is planning a January move to Hobart.