The ABC is bracing for the details of the long-awaited Janke review into racism at the broadcaster, set to be published on Monday.
The ABC is bracing for details of the long-awaited Janke review into racism at the broadcaster, set to be published on Monday.
Before the release of the findings, Dr Terri Janke’s review team has enlisted independent psychological support for ABC staff to help them cope with the report.
Participants in the review were contacted this week and offered three sessions per person with specialists Psychs for Journalists, funded by the ABC, according to correspondence seen by this masthead. Staff were told they could use the sessions before or after the report’s release.Grant spoke of his “bitter experience” with racism at the ABC upon his departure in 2023, which included claims the ABC had not done enough to defend him against “smears”.
On Thursday, the ABC appointed former journalist and media executive Alan Sunderland to lead an independent review into two stories published in 2022 about former commando Heston Russell with incorrect audio that went to air.The “Line of Fire” review will include all aspects of the reports broadcast onin September 2022 and published online. The ABC said the review findings, including the recommendations, will be made public. It is set to be delivered by the end of October.
Russell successfully sued the ABC for defamation after it alleged he was involved in the unlawful killing of an Afghan soldier, and was awarded $390,000 in damages last year.
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