Amanda Meade

2 days ago | theguardian.com | Amanda Meade

Buried in justice Darryl Rangiah’s 185-page judgment that found the ABC breached the Fair Work Act in its termination of Antoinette Lattouf is a critical assessment of the behaviour of the broadcaster’s top management, including former chair Ita Buttrose. Four of the key figures in Lattouf’s removal– Buttrose, the then managing director David Anderson, former content chief Chris Oliver-Taylor and Sydney radio manager Steve Ahern – have since departed the ABC.

3 days ago | theguardian.com | Amanda Meade

The ABC breached the Fair Work Act when it removed casual broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf from a Sydney radio program because of a social media post about Gaza, justice Darryl Rangiah has found in a federal court judgment. Rangiah upheld Lattouf’s claim heard in the federal court in February that she was unlawfully terminated in December 2023 when her on-air shifts were cut short three days into a five-day stint hosting Sydney Mornings.

3 days ago | theguardian.com | Amanda Meade

A highly charged 18-month dispute over whether the ABC acted unlawfully when casual radio presenter Antoinette Lattouf was abruptly taken off air in 2023 will end on Wednesday when Justice Darryl Rangiah hands down his judgment in the federal court. Lattouf began hosting the ABC Sydney Mornings radio program on Monday, 18 December 2023. The next day she reposted a Human Rights Watch post reporting the Israeli military using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza.

1 week ago | editorandpublisher.com | Amanda Meade

Posted Friday, June 20, 2025 10:33 am Journalists at three of Rupert Murdoch’s Australian mastheads have reported deep concern after training sessions for an in-house AI tool called “NewsGPT.” Staffers on the Australian, the Courier Mail and the Daily Telegraph say the tool enables them to take on the persona of another writer, or to adopt a certain style, and NewsGPT will then generate a custom article. Another tool, in which they adopt the persona of an editor to generate story leads or...

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Amanda Meade

Journalists at three of Rupert Murdoch’s Australian mastheads have reported deep concern after training sessions for an in-house AI tool called “NewsGPT” . Staffers on the Australian, the Courier Mail and the Daily Telegraph say the tool enables them to take on the persona of another writer, or to adopt a certain style, and NewsGPT will then generate a custom article. Another tool, in which they adopt the persona of an editor to generate story leads or fresh angles, has also been used.