Dr Russell NaughtonRussell Naughton is currently the Online Services Co-ordinator for Radio Australia (the international broadcast service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation). He received his Ph.D. in 1999 from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. His doctoral studies focussed on the future for radio technology and programming as we know it today and into what forms both aspects will evolve with the advent of digital multichannel broadcasting and media systems convergence. Russell has spent a lifetime in radio with the ABC. His first task centered around the ABC's coverage of the war in Vietnam and most notably the first moon landing. In the late 1960's and in the late 1980's and early nineties, as manager of Radio Australia's operations department, Russell was responsible for the technical production of 'RA's' coverage of a number of Olympic and Commonwealth Games, a sad raft of political assassinations and conflicts in Fiji and the Persian Gulf. During the mid to late 1970's whilst a music producer for the ABC's Light Entertainment department, he frequently 'moonlighted' producing sound-tracks for commercial feature films such as George Miller's original 'Mad Max' and Randall Kleiser's 'Blue Lagoon' and between 1974 and 1978, again wearing his official ABC hat, was sound producer for the ABC's cult TV program 'CountDown'. Russell, just on the wrong side of 50, is married to a former ABC sound librarian and has a son who at 14 years old, not only runs the family's computer network, an eclectic mixture of Macs and PC's, but also dominates the household's web connection to the pleased 'annoyance' of his father also trying to complete HIS 'homework'.
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