Media Roundup: REA to off-shore jobs, Cutting Edge enters liquidation, BBC acts on controversial Bob Vylan show, Hoyts makes more chairs vibrate, and concerns about data storage risks
How many Australian tech jobs at REA will be impacted by a restructure? The BBC promises it'll act on preventing another Bob Vylan situation.
TV
BBC acts on controversial Bob Vylan performance
The BBC has announced that said any musical performances deemed to be high risk would now not be broadcast live or streamed live. It is a reaction to the controversial performance by punk duo Bob Vylan at the Glastonbury festival.
Michael Savage at The Guardian reports the BBC have promised "those overseeing such events would also be given more support and provided with “more detailed, practical guidance on the threshold for withdrawing a live stream.”
Tech
Aussies believe influencers peddle misinformation
Calum Jaspan at SMH asks why influencers are so popular when so many Australians believe that they peddle misinformation.
Jaspan references a news consumption from the University of Canberra and Reuters that found Australians are increasingly turning to platforms like TikTok for their news. He then cites a YouGov poll that found 57 per cent of respondents say online influencers are a leading concern when it comes to misinformation.
REA offshores tech team jobs
The News Corp-controlled real estate company has informed staff that it will cut jobs from the tech team. The number of impacted staff could be around 15 per cent of the unit, which will involve offshoring roles to India. It is part of a broader cost-cutting restructure
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Mark Di Stefano at The Australian quotes an REA spokesperson who says that the proposals included “promotion opportunities” and “redeployment to new roles,” which means that “less than four per cent” would be made redundant.
Australia at risk of relying on international data storage
In an opinion piece for The Australian, Robert Gottliebsen argues that "Australia has the wrong power generation system for the electricity-intensive, data-driven business systems sweeping the world."
He says that Australian enterprises needing data storage will either have to pay high power prices for Australian data storage or go overseas putting local companies at risk, including a potential sabotage of our international cable.
Cutting Edge enters liquidation
VFX and post-production business Cutting Edge has officially entered into a Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation. Sean Slatter from if reports that the move is less than a year after being announced as one of the first recipients of the Queensland Government’s $5 million Capital Grants program.
Cinema exhibition
Hoyts expands vibrating seat cinemas
HOYTS is expanding its D-BOX cinemas with the addition of 539 new haptic seats across 19 auditoriums in Australia and New Zealand. Kaleah Salmon reports at Future Five that the new seats will be installed at eight new locations as well as existing sites, bringing the total number of D-BOX-equipped auditoriums to 44 over the next 12 months, representing a 70% increase in motion recliners across HOYTS cinemas.
