Caption staffer fired over Seven News leak
Staffer working remotely was behind the leak of Rebecca Maddern & Mike Amor video.
- Published by David Knox
- on
- Filed under News, Top Stories, Video
An employee at captioning company Ai-Media was responsible for the video of Seven News presenters Rebecca Maddern and Mike Amor being leaked.
Ai-Media confirmed it completed an investigation and identified that an employee working remotely due to the COVID-19 outbreak was responsible for the unauthorised distribution of the content.
It said “appropriate action” has been taken with regard to the employee responsible. It did not name the individual, or explain the motives behind the leak.
But the company confirmed in an email to Reuters, “The person is no longer employed by Ai-Media.”
Ai-Media CEO Tony Abrahams said: “We are Australia’s leading provider of captioning services and we understand the importance of our work in making media accessible and inclusive to a wider audience, while safeguarding the confidential information of our customers.
“We have longstanding and strong relationships within the media industry in Australia, and value our relationship with the Seven Network with whom we have been working with for over five years. This is the first such incident in Ai-Media’s 19-year history, and enhanced controls have since been implemented to ensure it cannot be repeated.”
Video of the presenters discussing Novak Djokovic has drawn attention around the world including in the Washington Post, NY Post and Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Meanwhile: The Channel 7 hosts Rebecca Maddern and Mike Amor 's pre 6pm 7news Melbourne bulletin banter about Djokovic, makes U.S late night TV (screened to millions) on the Jimmy Kimmel Show . #Melbourne #ausopen #Djokovic #7NEWS #auspol #australia pic.twitter.com/pKeBmYcBbP
— Anth W. 🌏 (@anth0888) January 13, 2022
Ai-Media provides captions for Seven and Nine networks while RedBee Media services 10, Foxtel and SBS.
Updated.
Share
- Tagged with Seven News
6 Responses
Nothing more than a smoke screen, for free publicity to the Seven Network
since there is absolutely zero proof or evidence of this, why would you even say it?
Um, Kimmel, they were not “on the air”. Totally misleading premise. But, guess a fake intro is better than the real story.
You cannot buy this sort of publicity. Seven will be secretly thanking the person who released this video. Everyone now knows Bec is back on 7 and that her and Mike really do have a warm easy relationship and are both badass journos. I bet Peter Mitchell is getting nervous.
how soon for a “newsreaders behaving badly” series? (unless they’ve run out of pet specials to show)
Going by comments in other articles, many people thought this was staged for publicity, but apparently it was not.