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TEN News shake-up as Jim Carroll quits

TEN's News boss steps down amid speculation that major cuts are coming to TEN News just months after a major recruitment of journalists.

TEN’s News Director Jim Carroll has quit his position ahead of major cuts that are coming to TEN News staff.

Up to 100 jobs could go, just months after the network hired journalists and production crews as part of a major push to rebrand as its news. They are tipped to go in the newsroom, sales and operations and the 6pm weekend bulletin is set to be axed.

According to The Australian, Carroll was not prepared to sack dozens of journalists who were only just hired.

In an email to his staff today he said he was “stepping down” but he was immensely proud of building a “credible news service”.

The axings are part of an internal review under interim CEO Lachlan Murdoch, and follow the dumping of state-based local bulletins and the exit of former CEO Grant Blackley and head of sports David White.

Of the radical news revamp now it seems only George Negus remains, along with an extended 5pm bulletin. Earlier this week TEN reporter Matt Moran won a prestigious 10th annual Paul Lyneham Award for Excellence in Journalism for the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery following his exclusive coverage of the recent ADF sex scandal.

New CEO James Warburton begins at TEN on January 1st, and there are rumours Adam Boland may join the network.

Carroll may yet be offered another role within TEN.

Melbourne news director Dermot O’Brien will be his News replacement.

29 Responses

  1. Jerome, none of my arguments offer solution to the drama points issue because that is not the issue. Actually, I have already posted here: “Yeah, the points thing, but Ten is setting that issue aside as a different issue.” Ten has made these moves knowing about the drama points issue. They have simply separated the issue of drama points from these big issues of ratings, advertising, flow and budget.

    You completely minsinterpret my post. I said, simply, Neighbours Got 400,000 when it was airing on Ten last year. Around the time it finished up, it was getting that and lower – on Ten! That is what I’m saying. Hence my question, “what is to say Neighbours would rate higher than 6:30 with George Negus”. It is a valid question. If they follow your plan and return Neighbours, what are they going to air on Eleven – which, by the way, would be directly competing demo-wise with Neighbours!! As a combo, Ten Neigbours and Eleven (something) would be much weaker than Ten Negus and Eleven Neighbours.

  2. Fauchs: None of your arguments offer a solution to the drama points? What do you suggest ten do?

    “3. What is to say Neighbours would do better than Negus?”
    What’s to say it wouldn’t? News/ negus is way down on what simpsons/neighbours was getting. The speculative argument that Neighbours would get 400k is just as baseless as me saying it would do 800k.

  3. Negus won’t be around to much longer, just doesn’t fit into a packer/murdoch company. Muich of Ten doesn’t which is why the news team is being swept out.

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