Pressure is mounting on the ABC to end its legal stoush with Antoinette Lattouf , with unionised staff issuing a renewed push for the broadcaster to drop its costly defence and settle with the sacked stand-in radio host, reports Nine Publishing’s Calum Jaspan . The ABC has rejected Lattouf’s recent settlement request of $85,000, a public apology and reinstatement as a fill-in radio presenter, and put forward an undisclosed counter-offer. Lattouf brought the action against the ABC after the dismissal, and the national broadcaster is defending itself.
[Read More] Violence from the far right against press photographers is getting worse, with the last few days in particular leaving them fearing for their safety, the journalists’ union has said, reports The Guardian’s Robyn Vinter . The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) called for those intimidating news gatherers to be prosecuted, after a number of photographers, reporters and camera crew have been abused, attacked and had their equipment destroyed or stolen. Bectu, the union for those who work behind the scenes in broadcasting, also backed the call, condemning “the appalling harassment and abuse” media professionals had faced in riots in the last week, as far-right violence has erupted in dozens of pockets of the UK, including Southport, Sunderland, Hull, Stoke-on-Trent and Rotherham.
[Read More] He makes it look easy. Sam Pang might be delivering delightfully deadpan quips on Ten’s comic quiz show, Have You Been.
