ABC to conduct external audit of "bias"

From the ABC:

ABC chairman James Spigelman has defended the corporation’s digital presence, saying without online and mobile platforms it risked marginalising itself in a future media landscape.

In a speech at the National Press Club, Mr Spigelman also announced the ABC will produce and publish external audits examining its impartiality.

The comments come with the ABC having sustained strident criticism from News Corp Australia and some members of the Government in recent weeks.

Mr Spigelman said the ABC’s expansion in digital media was always bound to clash with other broadcasters, but that the transition to new media was no different to what has occurred in the past.

Better not report on the Holden departure. That might be biased.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.

ABC to conduct external audit of “bias”