The more important bit from the interview article is this:
She says she will introduce more breaking news stories instead of relying on stories that take months to produce.
“With the 24-hour news cycle it means that doing a story four months down the track is not necessarily what the audience wants,” Williams says. “If there’s a major breaking story there’s nothing to say we won’t cover it live in addition to doing something more in depth, we can be a bit more reactive.”
Yeh - because regurgitating the news is cheaper than producing investigative journalism.
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Looks like Melbourne reporter, Cassie Zervos will feature on an up coming episode. Judging by the script she is set to host/read a story.
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Wonder if it’ll be related to some of the high profile crime that went not just national but international? Camper murders, mushroom-gate or Samantha Murphy, all of which she covered and did outstanding jobs on.
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Returning Sunday 25 August 8:40pm
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Is that Melbourne reporter Sharnelle Vella?
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Yes
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Seven’s own online guides TV Guide Tonight has a different synopsis for this Sunday’s episode, so maybe it will have two stories?
Explores the truth behind the murder of Leanne Holland, a 12-year-old whose body is found in the forest 8km from her home.
7NEWS Spotlight: John Setka
This Sunday at 8.40pm on Channel 7 and 7plus
John Setka is one of the most talked about people in Australia.
For over a decade, he ran the powerful and disgraced Victorian branch of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union or the CFMEU.
Last month the controversial boss suddenly quit amid headlines that bikies and criminals has infiltrated the union, and serious allegations of corruption, bribery and bullying within its construction arm.
In a bombshell 7NEWS Spotlight exclusive to air this Sunday at 8.40pm on Channel 7 and 7plus, Setka breaks his silence on the scandal that engulfed the organisation under his watch.
The controversial former union boss sits down with 7NEWS Melbourne’s Sharnelle Vella to tell his side of the story. Nothing is off limits as Setka is forced to confront the shocking allegations, including the extent of bikie infiltration of the union, kickbacks, accusations of domestic violence and his interactions with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
7NEWS Spotlight will also reveal a secret deal Setka says was made between the union and the Federal Government. It’s a deal that ultimately blew up in his face, leaving Setka without a job and putting the construction division of the CFMEU under administration.
Also on 7NEWS Spotlight, the rise and rise of true crime podcasts and how they are exposing appalling police failings and helping solve cold cases.
More than 2,500 Australians are classed as “long-term missing persons” and in the case of Bronwyn Whitfield, it’s been three long decades. Now, a podcast has shed new light on the case, revealing new evidence which could finally lead to answers for her family.
7NEWS Spotlight ’s Sarah Greenhalgh has tracked down the man at the centre of the investigation.
7NEWS Spotlight: Boeing, Boeing, gone
This Sunday at 8.40pm on Channel 7 and 7plus
We’re told that flying in a plane is safer than ever but when two identical, brand-new Boeing 737 Max jets crashed within five months of each other killing 346 people on board, the public expected answers.
Instead, as 7NEWS Spotlight discovers in this global investigation to air on Sunday at 8.40pm on Channel 7 and 7plus, there has been nothing but cover-ups and lies.
Award-winning investigative journalist Liam Bartlett presents damning new evidence that shows Boeing knew of a serious fault in its 737 Max aircraft before it crashed, as families of the victims tell 7NEWS Spotlight that Boeing is still hiding from accountability.
Whistleblowers on the inside, including a former leading safety supervisor on Boeing’s assembly line, Ed Pierson, say that unless there are substantial changes within the company and improvements made on the factory floor, it’s only a matter of time before Boeing is back in the news for all the wrong reasons.
“Now what I know, it scares me and that’s why I’m agreeing to this interview, because I feel like the public needs to know these things are going on,” Mr Pierson, who admits he’d never voluntarily fly on a 737 Max now, tells 7NEWS Spotlight.
Next week in a United States courtroom, the Department of Justice and the American aeroplane manufacturer will meet to finalise a plea deal that Boeing hopes will give it a fresh start.
Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to lying to the safety regulator, effectively criminal fraud. It sounds serious, but don’t be fooled.
Liam Bartlett said: “You see, Boeing wants you to think all their problems are behind them, that they’ve paid the price for two catastrophic crashes in their planes that killed 346 people, and that they’ve learnt their lessons about what went wrong and why.
“Boeing wants you to believe they’ve accepted responsibility and now it’s completely safe to jump back on a brand-new Boeing made plane, specifically the 737 Max. But that’s a long way from the truth.”
What does that mean for safety over Australian skies? And should Aussie airlines be thinking twice before buying more of these planes?
Don’t miss this 7NEWS Spotlight major investigation as critical new evidence is put forward and a clearer picture is presented of how we should all feel about flying on a Boeing.
Sounds like the same old same old Boeing stuff being repeated again.
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7NEWS Spotlight: Profiles in Hope
This Sunday at 8.30pm on Channel 7 and 7plus
James Packer is best known as the billionaire businessman.
What many don’t know is the private mental health battle he’s faced since his late 20s, a fight so crippling, he has been suicidal.
It’s fair to say anyone with Packer’s fortune expects little in the way of sympathy. But that’s the point about mental illness: it doesn’t discriminate.
In this candid, warts-and-all exclusive interview with Liam Bartlett to air on 7NEWS Spotlight this Sunday at 8.30pm on Channel 7 and 7plus, Packer opens up about his deeply personal and decades-long struggle.
Packer is raw and honest as he sits down for his first in-depth television interview in over a decade to reveal some of the darkest times in his life, the merry-go-round of medication and doctors who have tried to help, and the daily addiction he can’t shake.
“Money is not a guarantee of happiness,” Packer tells 7NEWS Spotlight. “I’m not here to play the victim… it’s a journey. You’re not interviewing someone who’s saying to you, ‘I’ve got it worked out and I’ve got all the answers’. I’m not that person. I’m here saying… I’m doing my best.”
Alongside him for the powerful interview is global pop star Robbie Williams, a close mate of Packer who has also been on his own, well-documented mental health journey.
“[It’s] the same sort of illness that we share,” Robbie reflects. “It’s a disease of isolation.”
Packer’s conversation is one of several featured by 7NEWS Spotlight as part of a broader, hour-long special on mental health ahead of the release of a powerful book, Profiles in Hope, by John Brogden, the former NSW Liberal leader and now President of Lifeline International.
7NEWS Spotlight’s Liam Bartlett said: “James is quite a complex man who has gone out of his way to deliver a simple message for the purpose of helping others and for that reason alone, he should be applauded.”
Odd they’re doing a puff piece for him?
I can see it would be easy to be cynical about the motive for either party to do this, but genuinely seems like an opportunity to put the spotlight (pun intended) and focus on mental health.
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