Australia names media exec Kim Williams chair of national broadcaster ABC

New ABC chair Kim Williams calls for unity

Kim Williams’ tenure at ABC will be ‘eventful’: Sharri Markson

Sky News host Sharri Markson predicts new ABC chair Kim Williams' tenure at the broadcaster will be “eventful for all of us watching”. Ms Markson pointed to Kim Williams' book 'Rules of Engagement', published in 2014, which she says has some "fascinating insights about how the new chair views the ABC". Mr Williams wrote in the book: "The ABC is capable of as much vainglorious behaviour as our commercial media and is often consumed in a fountain…

How Kim Williams went from 'obsessive' clarinettist to the new ABC chair

How does a clarinettist who was a national Lego champion as a boy, a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, whose first wife was a famous author and comedian and second, the daughter of an Australian prime minister, end up widely known as a media executive?

Kim Williams named new Chairman of the ABC

Kim Williams has been named the new chairman of the ABC by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Communications Minister Michelle Rowland. “Williams was the head of Foxtel, Sky News’ carriage, and was CEO of News Limited,” said Sky News Business Editor Ross Greenwood. “In earlier days he ran the Southern Star production company and for a time was in senior management at the ABC. “He is also a former Chairman of the Sydney Opera House Trust, among…

Kim Williams, Former News Corp. Executive, Set as Chair of Publicly-Owned Australian Broadcasting Corp.

Media and entertainment veteran Kim Williams is to be appointed the next chairperson of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian federal prime minister Anthony Albanese’s office announced on Wednesday. Williams takes over from the departing Ita Buttrose and will have a five-year mandate. He joins at a moment when the ABC is enduring a moment of editorial turbulence. The public broadcaster has recently been criticized for its cov…

As new ABC chair, one of Kim Williams’ challenges will be to stiffen the organisation’s spine

Kim Williams takes over as chair of the ABC at a moment when its preparedness to protect its journalists and the organisation’s editorial independence from external attack is under serious question. It was the issue that came to define the tenure of the outgoing chair, Ita Buttrose. She proved at crucial moments to be a strong defender of the ABC’s independence against sustained attacks on it by the government of Scott Morrison, who appointed he…