ABC Productivity Survey - ABC Reaches NET ZERO

ABC NEWS WATCH regularly ran an annual news productivity survey to measure ABC news output, based on news stories recorded in the ABC News Archive in June each year. 

When we last ran the survey in 2020 projections were pointing to ABC reaching ZERO output in 2021.

We recently checked and it appears the ABC News Archive was discontinued in late 2022, early 2023. The page now returns the notice below:

Based on the archive, ABC output and productivity reached NET ZERO at the end of December 2022, with no news being recorded to the archive! Staff numbers based on the 2024 annual report indicate total news staff of 2301 (45% of 5114) - an incredible leap for ZERO output! Seems our models were pretty much spot on!

ABC NEWS PRODUCTIVITY SURVEY RESULTS for 2003-2019

NEWS STORIES POSTED EACH JUNE 2003-2019

Year  Total Stories 
2003      7230 
2004      6920 
2005      6899 
2006      6995 
2007      7988 
2008      8894 
2009      7134 
2010      6666
2011      5908
2012      6091
2013      7754
2014      7801
2015      7624 

2016      6597
2017      5195
2018      4010
2019      2948

2023            0

Productivity: 2022 ABC REACH NET ZERO NEWS OUTPUT!

Year  Stories per staff per month 
2003      9.4 
2004      9.4 
2005      9.1 
2006      9.1 
2007      9.5 
2008     10.3 
2009      7.8 
2010      7.1
2011      6.1
2012      8.1
2013      7.7
2014      7.4
2015      5.3
2016      4.8
2017      3.9
2018      3.0
2019      2.3

2023         0

ABC NEWS STORIES VS STAFF - NET ZERO PRODUCTIVITY!