By @MediaweekAUS
Publication Date: 2025-12-07 23:18:00
Less than two months later Media Week While Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) unveiled a move to an AI-powered newsroom model following a wave of redundancies, the broadcaster is now facing the fallout from a major on-air glitch that wrongly turned a working journalist into a wanted man.
SCA has launched an internal investigation after several Adelaide radio reports incorrectly named a News Corp reporter as the alleged perpetrator of a violent attack on police.
How the error came to light
In six separate updates on Friday mornings on Triple M and SAFM, including the flagship breakfast show Roo, Ditts & Loz, The advertiser’s Dylan Hogarth was incorrectly identified as a man accused of attacking officers with a hammer before allegedly escaping custody at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Listeners were…
