ABC NEWS: June 2010 Productivity Report

COMMENT: ABC's productivity reporting is completed for June 2010. Results appear below. We will provide commentary at a later date.
Summary Report for Policy Makers: 
ABC NEWS - Doing Less with More


Stories: Total stories posted in ABC News Archives for June 2010 was 6666. This is the lowest on record.



Year  Total Stories
2003 7230
2004 6920
2005 6899
2006 6995
2007 7988
2008 8894
2009 7134
2010 6666


Staffing: Staff numbers for ABC News for financial year 2009-2010 are as yet unavailable. Using a model of ABC staff numbers we predict staff levels for June 2010 to be approximately 942.33. This would represent an  increase of about 3% over 2009 numbers (note actual figures will be posted when released by ABC).


Year Staff
2003 766.24
2004 735.04
2005 756.6
2006 770.68
2007 842.37
2008 865.59
2009 913.14
2010 942.33*

Productivity: With stories at a record low and staff at record highs, it comes at no surprise that ABC news productivity is at a record low of just 7.07 stories per staff member for the month.



Year  Stories per staff per month
2003 9.435685947
2004 9.414453635
2005 9.118424531
2006 9.076400062
2007 9.482768855
2008 10.27507249
2009 7.812602668
2010 7.073954984