ABC News Watch: 2010 Productivity survey update-not good!

Monday, November 1, 2010

2010 Productivity survey update-not good!

ABC have released their 2009-2010 Annual report. In our productivity survey we based ABC 2010 News Staff numbers on a growth curve that predicted staff levels for June 2010 of 942.33. The actual figures were 947.36. We were out by half a percent! This means adjusted productivity figures for 2010 are as follows:

Year Staff
2003 766.24
2004 735.04
2005 756.6
2006 770.68
2007 842.37
2008 865.59
2009 913.14
2010 947.36

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 7.04 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 7.036395879

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