With no television experience, The West Australian’s 38-year-old editor-in-chief, Anthony De Ceglie, has been enlisted to stabilise Seven’s ailing crown jewel, television news.

Historically, news has been fiercely competitive. More than just a nightly bulletin, it is the spine of a network’s business, its cash cow and a ratings winner. The on-screen talents are often the face of the network. But such high stakes can lead to costly errors – see Seven’s misidentification of the Bondi Junction killer and its Bruce Lehrmann Spotlight scandals.

Since then, Spotlight executive producer Mark Llewellyn has left,........

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