Look back in anger: staff furious at sacking of archivists on ABC’s 90th birthday
by Amanda Meade from World news | The Guardian on (#606R2)
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The ABC chose the month it is celebrating its 90th birthday to gut staff in its acclaimed archives division. The plan is to abolish 75 jobs, 58 permanent positions and 17 contractors, and replace some of them with so-called content navigators tasked with helping harried journalists find material and log metadata into the system.
To celebrate the 90th milestone the broadcaster commissioned a six-part series hosted by actor David Wenham, which revisits the pasts of prominent Australians through moments drawn from ... you guessed it, the vast ABC archives.
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