Unfortunately I couldn’t watch the coverage after 6pm, just catching up now… What a tragedy. So terrible.
From what I did see, Deb and Mark did a fantastic job. Great to see Deb back on news. They’d both make a good future duo.
Also glad to see 10 do some extended coverage given their light resources, so kudos to them.
ABC has wrapped up it’s online blog - BBC blog and live stream continuing
ABC News Channel has finished up it’s last live bulletin for the night - 15 minute bulletin will be repeated overnight.
BBC has now wrapped up it’s online coverage - I’m guessing there will be regular reports on the BBC News Channel, and in-depth reports on BBC One bulletins.
Seriously, they weren’t that far behind. 9 only started coverage in the half hour prior.
7 then commenced coverage with their scheduled 5pm bulletin.
If you didn’t have your tv on for the sport, you wouldn’t have seen it anyway. I just happened to
see the tv at gym, otherwise I wouldn’t have been watching tv on a Saturday afternoon anyway.
ABC was woeful however given they have a dedicated news channel.
ABC coverage was fine. Had coverage well before 7.
They should’ve been first and most comprehensive.
You’re right. TV audiences outside live sport on a Saturday afternoon are small.
But with online news sites, push notifications, social media, hell even group chats, stories spread way quicker than they used to.
Most people who had checked their smartphone would be aware of the incident and maybe gone searching or turned on the TV for further details.
That’s not a criticism of 7 necessarily as I think the uptick of rolling news for breaking events in the last 20 years and 24-7 exposure to news isn’t a particularly healthy one I don’t think for a variety of reasons.
Great to have Deb back on news. But you could tell 9 Sydney is unfamiliar with the double header format. Whenever there was an interview/cross, one would ask all of the questions and the other would just sit there and say nothing until the next story when it was their turn. Very little of the alternating questions that we’d be used to in this sort of format. I didn’t watch all of the coverage, but I didn’t see much interaction between them either, even when one was trying to fill.
In saying that Nine did well in rolling with the story as it was developing in the afternoon.
Dom Knight doing special coverage on ABC Radio Sydney this morning
https://twitter.com/domknight/status/1779261785285214513
Didn’t see his interviews last night, but this morning all this criminologist is doing is speculating. Speculating about the actions and speculating about the motive. If this wasn’t a criminal case, a whole lot of legality issues would arise.
Expected. This is how journalism works 99% of the time but people see it on full display when interviews are live. It is unfortunately just the nature of reporting on tragic incidents.
I know it’s a long shot, but it might be a good idea for 10 to put together a midday bulletin for today.
There is a lot of selective blurring of video coverage this morning on TV. Somewhat belated as non-blurred vision was shown yesterday. One notable segment with the perpetrator dead now completely blurred.
However, it is different in print media. with still images on front covers. Have blurred them for those who don’t wish to see.
In addition to lots of English in the eastern suburbs (and it being Australia’s most well known area), Sky UK normally have a correspondent in Sydney so it builds up the coverage to cross to them.
Sky UK’s corespondent has recently relocated to Beijing. She was on air yesterday, alongside Julia Bradley from Sky AU
From The Sydney Morning Herald.
A second victim who died from the Bondi Junction stabbing attack has been identified as Dawn Singleton, the daughter of businessman John Singleton.
Dawn is one of three daughters Singleton had with his wife, lawyer Julie Martin.
Werkend Today is extending its coverage past 10am.
Sunrise also extending.
