ABC snares Fairfax's Matt Buchanan to launch weekly tablet app

By AdNews | 24 April 2014
 
Matt Buchanan, editor of The Brief, the ABC's new weekly tablet app.

ABC Innovation is set to launch a weekly tablet app, and has brought on board former Sydney Morning Herald tablet app editor Matt Buchanan to run it.

The app, dubbed The Brief, will run a weekly selection of stories from across the ABC featuring a mixture of multimedia content. It launches on Friday 2 May.

Buchanan was formerly news editor of the SMH tablet app and has worked at Fairfax Media since 1997 in a variety of roles, including features editor, literary editor and editor of The Diary.

He will report to ABC director of innovation Angela Clark. "Matt brings a breadth of skills across both traditional and digital media and he was someone who understood the challenges of this project and was excited by them," she said.

"The Brief will aim to introduce new audiences to ABC's content and it is almost certain we’ll make some mistakes along the way so we needed an editor who was keen to explore new boundaries with us."

Buchanan said: "I'm thrilled to be the editor of The Brief and to be part of the ABC Innovation team. They are at the forefront of digital media apps and it’s an area I’m really passionate about. The Brief is an exciting project, it’s something that doesn’t currently exist on the market with its combination of multimedia content and topical features."

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