SBS appoints Jim Carroll director of news and current affairs
Public broadcaster SBS has appointed former Ten head of news Jim Carroll as its new director of news and current affairs.
He replaces Paul Cutler who will retire at the end of June. Carroll has most recently been working at SBS as executive producer of World News Australia.
“Jim’s extensive expertise in news and current affairs will be invaluable to SBS as we continue building on the esteemed reputation of World News Australia, our radio news and our flagship current affairs programs Insight, Dateline and Living Black, by broadening our reach and deepening engagement with our audiences across the platforms and devices available to them,” said Michael Ebeid, SBS Managing Director.
Carroll has a broad experience in news and current affairs across many of Australia’s commercial television and radio networks.
He spent 11 years at Network Ten where he led the news and public affairs divisions until 2011, he has also been a senior news and current affairs executive at the Nine and Seven Networks.
On his appointment Carroll said: “It is an honour to lead the SBS news and current affairs team through this evolutionary time for media.
”We are expanding the reach and impact of our services with innovative and enriching news and current affairs content across platforms and devices to meet our audience’s changing needs and expectations and, of course, providing the unique insight into world events that only SBS can.”
SBS will undertake a recruitment process for the position of Executive Producer of World News Australia.
Nic Christensen
Farewell Paul, all the best for the future.
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Good luck Jim! Looking forward to seeing you reshape things.
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Onya Jim. Well done to you. You will be a great head of News at SBS.
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