A further 17 contract positions will also be axed with many of the staff affected based outside Sydney and Melbourne
Photograph: Mike Bowers/The GuardianPhotograph: Mike Bowers/The GuardianArchivists and librarians at the ABC are in shock after management unveiled plans to abolish 58 positions and make journalists research and archive their own stories.
The research library staff will continue to help investigative programs like Four Corners and Background Briefing, but will not be available to assist daily news or ABC co-productions.Sound libraries will no longer add new commercial music releases to the music bank and producers must access music for programs themselves.
A further four positions will be made redundant in TV post-production as the roles are being replaced with automatic services.The proposal for post-production says that manual quality checking of a program by ABC specialists “to ensure it meets ABC broadcast standards” will now be automated.
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