Or a live bulletin?
He has gone live. I remember one where he started in the supermarket, it continued in the car, then the bulk of it was from home.
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Outlet - I mean outlet.
We have a couple times during the bushfires - probably will again this Summer!
We did twice for the US Election! And of course plenty of live broadcasts on Instagram.
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Any issues with them given they’re a part of facebook or is it still pretty much anything goes there?
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No issues at all. Surprising TBH.
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Are the two accounts linked? If they aren’t, then Facebook probably wouldn’t know it’s the same person. My Facebook, Instagram and Messenger accounts are all linked.
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They are linked actually. Weird.
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from reading the thread, im glad that no head of news/evening news EP is on this site - you guys would tear them to shreads! leo is still learning and is doing an awesome job - please keep that in mind
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Took the time to sit through Sunday’s bulletin and have a few thoughts. The short version: Leo, you’ve put together a roster of promising young talent (yourself included), but I don’t get it.
The longer, more nuanced (and helpful, I hope) version: If your goal with 6 News is to replicate what commercial TV news does in Australia on a tiny percentage of the budget, then you’re about 90% of the way there. Without trying to sound like a journalism lecturer, your story selection for most of the bulletin shows a great understanding of news sense and audience, though the bulletin wouldn’t have suffered if you didn’t cover (for example) viral videos and the movements of a Fox News presenter who is unknown to Australians who don’t live on Twitter.
In terms of presentation, focus on your lighting and your audio mix: some reporters would benefit from pop filters, that harsh plosive sound is quite noticeable. I’d also suggest being selective with footage sourced from social media: better to have stock footage (or nothing at all) than airing clips that reduce the viewer to borderline motion sickness.
With all that said, it appears as if you’re trying to take a format from (usually) live, linear broadcast TV and fit it into a pre-recorded online space without much in the way of compromise. In reality, while alike in production the forms are worlds apart in presentation: pre-recorded video (Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat) is increasingly 9:16 or 1:1 rather than 16:9; digital audiences have even shorter attention spans than linear TV audiences; and the gatekeepers aren’t the ACMA or the people higher above you on the corporate ladder but instead the social media platforms themselves.
Again, short of getting 6 News on linear TV (C31 now, Channel 10 in a few years time), you’ve got the fundamentals down pat. But is that what you want 6 News to be?
If your intent is to build a reputable news brand then you have to invest a hell of a lot of time, effort and, in the end, money. If you want to make live TV, start streaming a couple of nights a week on YouTube or Twitch, or get involved with community television before it eventually dies its slow, painful death.
If you want to lead the way online, be comfortable with reinventing your product - not just now, but continually as technology and audiences change. News organisations are full of people who don’t understand online; you and your team are young, you know how to speak to young people and you know how young audiences consume content. In my mind, that’s your biggest asset.
More than happy to chat further/clarify anything in what is quite a lengthy ramble 
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Hey @AustralianAerial, thanks so much for the feedback (or ramble haha)
I’ll try to answer questions/respond in order of how you wrote them:
While we are trying to replicate commercial TV, we are also wanting to be a little different. Include stuff you wouldn’t see on the nightly news. The ‘trending now’ and ‘eye on entertainment’ sections are really to have a few lighter stories in a bulletin that includes alleged war crimes.
Good news - a few of our reporters are improving their equipment, and I am working to get a lapel mic.
There’s no doubt that the best format for YouTube is 16:9, but of course, it varies on other platforms. We are testing out more posts that fit the format of the platform, like our Instagram live streams.
We do want to lead the way online - I truly believe that’s the way to go these days. And more live streams on YT (and Twitch, which we’ve been considering) would also be awesome.
Happy to chat further in DMs!
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@Leo_Puglisi6 Not sure if you are aware but there is another established 6 News in Brisbane that’s been around for quite some time!
They also run some local community groups.
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Fully aware of it. They only changed their name to ‘6 News’ in April though.
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Maybe you can buy them out and create the 6 network.
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That’s if they want to be bought.
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Latest headlines - and NO network footage included! Press conferences don’t count 
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It’s great that the links to other videos at the end are after the content has concluded. YouTube videos that have the links obscuring the last 5 seconds or so of the content are annoying.
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I’ve made sure it never goes over content! Looks awful when it does.
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Good bit of advice for Darby would be to speak naturally, he doesn’t need to impersonate this TV show idea of an anchor man.
“Goooood Evening Daaarby Travers with the latest.”
Like people don’t speak like that naturally, relax a little and it’ll come across much nicer.
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