Michael Vincent explores the history of the ABC's coverage of world news.
SuppliedTo fill the hour with 10"chapters", roughly six minutes each, covering the following: how ABC International started, how it was affected by cuts in 1997 and 2014, what it does now and what the plans are for its future.
Remarkably, the ABC's international operations budget is just $11 million — the same as it was in the 1980s.]I've done some interesting stuff during my two decades at the ABC, including being a foreign correspondent based in Washington, and I thought I'd heard most of the stories about the place.
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