‘I was angry that I was given this opportunity and had to clean up someone else’s sh*t’: First priority for Nine’s news boss is to ‘get the trust back’
Nine’s new director of news and current affair, Fiona Dear, has blasted the ingrained culture at the network, and has pledged to “get the trust back” within Nine’s newsroom.
Dear was interviewed in the Women For Media Report 2024, where she pulled no punches, expressing her dismay at taking the top role and then having to spend her energy cleaning up the mess made by previous regimes.
When asked her priorities for fostering gender equity in your newsrooms, Dear answered: “I’ve taken over at a difficult time, not just for Nine, but for commercial media in general. I think my priorities have changed, because of the time I have come in. My first priority with this team is to try and get the trust back.
