Yep definitely not my intention. I know something about the inner workings of SCA, but I’ll leave the thoughts to myself from now on.
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Surely no journalist with any significant media experience would go for a job presenting these updates?
This is the sort of media position you’d have as your first out of uni, before hopefully eventually moving onto bigger and better things.
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The industry is getting ever smaller though, sometimes a job is better than nothing, particularly if you have family responsibilities.
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Just need Alex Sykes to do a couple of other reports for the 7 Tas bulletin and she has worked for all three network affiliations!
I wonder whether SCA may get any of the others to do other stories for experience too for the other bulletins. Ruby Commane and some other 7 presenters have filled in on the TDT updates before.
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I moved to the Spencer Gulf - by choice - because firstly, I wanted a seachange, but most importantly I feel regional areas deserve stability with their reporters. So I’m here for the long run. 
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I definitely have no understanding as to how SCA produce their news updates but if 6 news can have footage for their recorded YouTube bulletins surely SCA could manage stills or stock footage for theirs. Even news updates on radio have more dynamics that just a straight read.
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You’re underestimating how cheaply and quickly SCA wants to pump these out.
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What are you expecting for an entry level job?
fairly large difference between a bunch of people making something for a hobby and having whatever time they want to make it and lifting vision from wherever, and a ‘one-man-band’ having to church out dozens of updates a day with no resources.
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Its a little pathetic that SCA view their legal requirement to produce local news as nothing more than a tick a box annoyance where they’ll do the bare minimum to meet the obligation.
This seems hardly keeping with the intent of the legislation, which was presumably to give regional communities some sort of meaningful local content, not just outdated rubbish.
The debate has been had before but seriously, the sooner they get out of regional TV the better.
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ummmmmmmmm…awkward.
I did say the updates, not the full bulletin that Spencer Gulf viewers receive though.
No disrespect to @Techster, of course! 
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Still awkward…for me…I did look at the positions
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I guess I didn’t realise it was an entry level job.
So I guess it was just these “noodle” updates during the day and evening then - did they insert anything into the 5pm bulletin?
Agree that adding footage rather than just the presenter talking, even in some cases just a photo or a graphic related to what they’re talking about, would lift them so much.
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Exactly. Everyone has to start somewhere and they deserve to be given a chance.
Anyone who thinks they can do better are welcome to upload a video of themselves presenting their own update. Let’s see them do better.
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Agree with this. Once the music cuts out (would much prefer if they kept it running) the updates are very plain. At least the backdrop is animated.
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100%. Tassie was doing this with their updates. It gives it some pace and actually feels like a normal metro style quick update when the music bed is playing.
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10 do this on Studio 10 during their news updates, so I think it could work well for SCA to do it as well and it would make things seem a bit punchier.
The next thing would be to make the headlines the same and not so long winded, it feels so drawn out. This can be improved over the next few weeks and months, better script writing and experience plus probably a producer wouldn’t go astray here.
If I was 10 I would have negotiated it so that these updates also worked as a promo for the nightly news. They could have included supers with their National social media channels, and at the end when they say “I’ll be back with more news in an hour” which sounds ordinary i’d have them say “We’ll have more updates throughout the afternoon, and tune in at 5:00pm for 10 News First for all the days other news” or something like that.
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