I just saw a video from the SBS WA Corespondent who was working and reporting for World News out of 10 Perth, using a Paramount laptop.
How long have SBS Video Journalists been working out of Paramount’ Offices? And is it only in WA?
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And from a South Aussie, it’s also nice to have you back in the Festival State
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It looks shocking. Like someone has found a stock image and decided to do it “just cause”. It doesn’t match the branding at all
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Catalina Florez is Presenting SBS World News This Weekend.
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The screen on the desk appears to have been replaced. It’s much brighter this week and doesn’t have that weird distortion on camera anymore.
It was lovely to see you being the only person who stopped to help the journalist who was pushed over today.
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It was a bit of a shock for those who got pushed over. I was very lucky i didn’t trip over.
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Australians place growing trust in SBS News
SBS has been recognised as one of Australia’s most trusted news providers, ranking equal first in the 2026 Reuters Digital News Report.
Australians continue to place their trust in SBS’s independent, accurate and impartial journalism,
with the latest Reuters Digital News Report finding that audience trust is at 66% (+7 ppts year-on-year), placing SBS equal first among Australian news organisations, alongside the ABCThe trust result comes as audiences increasingly turn to SBS News across digital and third-party
platforms, with SBS News website page views increasing by 18% year-on-year¹ and third-party
video views up 78% year-on-year².According to the 2026 Reuters Digital News Report, almost half (49%) of Australians believe public
service media has a positive effect on life in Australia (well above the global average of 36%). This
increased to 68% among young adults aged 25-34.The report also identified growing engagement with public service media among younger
audiences, with usage increasing from 43% to 54% among 18–24 year-olds and from 47% to 51%
among 25–34 year-olds from 2022 to 2026.Respondents cited universal access, trustworthy news, diverse perspectives, high-quality
journalism and news free from commercial or political influence as the main drivers of this support.
SBS Managing Director, Jane Palfreyman, said these results demonstrate the importance of trusted
journalism in an increasingly complex news environment.“Trust is earned through rigorous reporting, editorial independence and a commitment to serving
audiences with accuracy, impartiality and balance. This recognition reflects the dedication of SBS
journalists and teams across the organisation who work every day to inform Australians, tell diverse
stories and help audiences make sense of the issues shaping our world.”As the public broadcaster for all Australians, SBS reaches audiences in more than 60 languages
across television, digital, audio and third-party platforms, reporting on national and international
events, as well as issues that matter to diverse communities.SBS’s news offering includes SBS World News, Australia’s only television news service with a
primarily global focus, and NITV News, Australia’s only national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
television news service.SBS Director of News, Mandi Wicks, said it is encouraging that younger audiences are turning to
public service broadcasters, like SBS, for fact-based reporting.“In an era where misinformation and disinformation can spread rapidly, trusted journalism has never
been more important. Our role is to provide independent reporting, impartial analysis and a diversity
of perspectives that help Australians stay informed and connected.”The 2026 Reuters Digital News Report is part of a long-running international survey coordinated by
the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. The News and Media
Research Centre at the University of Canberra is the Australian partner institute. This year’s report
looks into behaviours and attitudes towards trust, AI use in news, news influencers, and public
service media. It can be accessed here.
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Maybe management should invest in the product then. SBS news online is largely repackaged AAP stories and out of date SBS-made feature stories. The bulletin is on autopilot, it’s stale and tired and overdue for a visual relaunch. No one would miss the late news if it disappeared. They need to introduce some pace to the bulletin and reorient some of the content to have a greater Asian focus ahead of endless stories from Africa and South America.
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The ABC has the Asian angle covered through The World. We need stories from Africa and Latin America.
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I particularly hate how they use reports from Al Jazeera, the BBC and other overseas outlets for the flagship bulletin. Instead of investing in being a proper world news outlet with original they’ve become an aggregator. The places where they do have a correspondent is already covered by major outlets.
We seriously need reporters back in Africa (both north and south), Latin America, Central Asia and for goodness sakes there’s not even a New Zealand correspondent at any of our tv networks now!
As far as the ABC is concerned the world only consists of USA, Europe (mainly Uk and Ukraine) and the Asia-Pacific region (excluding NZ).
SBS should be in the under-reported places if the ABC doesn’t want to be there.
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Another show, at another time, on another network. That’s also on autopilot and stale and tired.
I’m not saying no stories from Africa or Latin America, but just a better balance of stories. There are almost nightly stories about politics in South America. Malaysia, Indonesian, Singaporean, Vietnamese, Taiwanese, etc politics barely gets a mention on SBS.
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Legendary presenter Anton Enus to sign off from SBS World News after 27 years with the network
SBS’s long-serving news presenter and journalist Anton Enus has announced he will retire from SBS World News in September after an outstanding career at the national public broadcaster.
One of the faces of the SBS network for more than a quarter of a century, the highly respected Enus will bring his career at SBS to a close when he presents his final SBS World News bulletin on Friday, 11 September.
Born in South Africa, Enus moved to Australia and joined SBS in 1999 after 15 years working for the South African Broadcasting Corporation, where he covered landmark events including that country’s return to democracy in 1994.
He took up a casual position in SBS’s newsroom in Sydney, bringing public broadcaster experience and an international perspective that immediately enhanced SBS’s global news coverage. Just one month later, he made his debut as presenter of the SBS Late News and remained in that role for eight and a half years before moving to SBS World News at 6.30pm in 2007, co-presenting with Janice Petersen and Amrita Cheema.
As a trusted voice for the network, Enus presented and reported on some of the biggest news stories of the 21st century, including the Walk for Reconciliation in 2000, the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Cronulla riots in 2005, and anchoring the news from Berlin for six weeks during the 2006 FIFA World Cup™. Earlier this year, he informed many Australians that war had broken out in Iran on a Saturday night in March.
Enus took extended personal leave in 2017, but returned as SBS World News’s permanent weekend presenter in 2018, bringing warmth and gravitas to that role over the past eight years.
Reflecting on his career at SBS, Enus said: “I will miss that flashing red light in the studio that says ‘ON AIR’, the immediacy of crossing to a reporter in the middle of a hurricane, the importance of being part of a team telling the stories of people that sometimes get ignored. I don’t think it’s too grand to say those things, the nuts-and-bolts of public broadcasting, shore up the kind of society we think of when we evoke modern Australia.
“It seems extraordinary that the time has passed so quickly. It feels like just the other day that I walked into the newsroom for the first time, a newly arrived migrant from South Africa, looking for a job – any job. I was given a professional home and embraced by this family of broadcasters in a way that for me epitomised what multicultural Australia is all about. We are many but we’re also one. I will enjoy following SBS World News from afar*.*”
SBS Managing Director Jane Palfreyman said: “Anton has been a trusted face for SBS’s audience for over a quarter of a century and is a much-loved and valued member of the SBS newsroom and studio. We will miss him as much as our audience will. We want to congratulate him on a stellar journalistic career in Australia and beyond, and thank him for the brilliant service he has given our network. We wish him a happy retirement.’’
SBS Director of News and Current Affairs Mandi Wicks said: “Anton’s integrity and professionalism over many years have contributed enormously to SBS being one of Australia’s most-trusted news providers. Anton is an exceptional communicator. Over almost three decades at SBS, he has guided audiences through some of the most significant, complex and often devastating stories of our time. His calm and conversational style has built trust and a strong connection with viewers.
SBS World News Managing Editor Adam Mcilrick said: “Anton is kind, calm and curious, always taking care with every story he delivers. He’s also been a thoroughly wonderful mentor for journalists of all abilities, bringing a warmth and presence to all he does. Those who’ve worked with him, and watched him, over the years are richer for having Anton in their lives. We’ll miss him greatly.”
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As a millennial of a certain age, I remember Anton always popping up between double eps of South Park on a Monday night. He’s always been great and has had a great innings, good luck to him!
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Anton Enus has been part of the SBS News team for a long time, so it is sad to read that he is retiring (in September). First as the Late News reader, to then the 6.30pm News. 25+ years is an amazing feat.
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Very sad to see Anton Enus depart the SBS. He has done not just the SBS News, but also he did some hosting of Dateline on SBS. I remembered back in 2012, when Anton Enus presented a standalone special broadcast episode of Go Back to Where You Came from: The Response, which was a live studio forum. He will be sadly missed by colleagues at the SBS. May Anton Enus have a happy retirement.
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Has someone been stalking my Linkedin page? hahah.