Full Name
Gaven Morris
Job Title
CEO
Company
Bastion Transform
Speaker Bio
Gaven Morris is the CEO of Bastion Transform, the former Director of ABC News and an executive and journalist with over 30 years of experience in international and Australian media.

Bastion Transform is a digital strategy and content consultancy, working with teams to develop purpose and vision and build a successful digital future. It’s part of the broader Bastion Collective, Australasia’s largest independent and integrated communications and strategy agency.

Until 2021, Gaven led ABC News to become Australia’s leading online and social media news service through a comprehensive strategic and cultural change program over six years. He’d previously led the launch of the ABC News Channel and was the Executive Head of ABC News Content driving the convergence of newsrooms and production processes to become contemporary multiplatform teams.


In his decade in international news, he was a senior member of the team that built and launched Al Jazeera English, the largest news channel and digital start-up in world journalism and was on the team that expanded CNN.com to become one of the first global online news teams.



He’s been an international correspondent and coordinating producer of many significant breaking news events from the Iraq War and the second Intifada in the Middle East, to conflict in Liberia, terrorist attacks and natural disasters across Europe and the Middle East and national elections and global summits. He was a reporter on the ABC’s 7.30 Report, at Ten News and at The Canberra Times and has produced many of the industry’s most esteemed journalists and presenters.
Gaven Morris