Reporting for ABC
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Friday 26 May and Tuesday 30 May -
Ishkandar Razak presenting in Victoria tonight.
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There is a minor reshuffle among the ABC’s Asian-based journalists. East Asia correspondent Bill Birtles has moved from Taipei to Jakarta to be Indonesia correspondent. North Asia correspondent Jake Sturmer (based in Tokyo) has flown home to Perth. Jake filed a report on WA Premier Mark McGowan’s resignation yesterday.
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Adele Ferguson AM joins the ABC as an investigative journalist and senior business commentator
The ABC is delighted to welcome Adele Ferguson as an investigative journalist and senior business commentator.
One of Australia’s best and most highly awarded journalists, Ferguson’s work has initiated major national and state inquiries, including a royal commission, instigated legislative changes and significantly bettered the lives of millions.
Ferguson has been a regular guest reporter on the ABC’s Four Corners and 7.30. Her reporting on the banking sector (“Banking Bad”) and on life insurance (“Money for Nothing”) was instrumental in bringing about the Hayne Royal Commission into Australia’s banks and financial institutions and earned her Australian journalism’s highest accolade, the Gold Walkley Award.
Her reporting has also exposed retirement villages ripping off retirees (“Bleed Them Dry”), lack of regulation in the multi-billion-dollar cosmetic surgery industry (“Cosmetic Cowboys”), systemic wage fraud (“7-Eleven: The Price of Convenience”), Medicare waste (“Medicare scandal”), failing workers compensation schemes (“Immoral and Unethical”) and the extraordinary powers of the Australian Tax Office (“Mongrel Bunch of Bastards”).
Ferguson will join the ABC Investigations team led by Sean Nicholls. She will also offer her expert analysis on business issues in a regular column for ABC News online and regular appearances on 7.30.
Adele Ferguson:
“I am thrilled to be joining Australia’s largest investigations team.
“There has never been a more important time for investigative journalism to give a voice to vulnerable people and hold the powerful to account.”
ABC Director, News Justin Stevens:
“We are so excited to have Adele Ferguson join the ABC News team.
“Adele is an incredible journalist whose brilliant and brave public interest journalism has had an enormous impact on our nation and on people’s lives.
“Adele will have a key role across the ABC’s digital and broadcast services as one of our most senior journalists and commentators.”
ABOUT ADELE FERGUSON
Adele Ferguson started her journalism career at Adelaide’s The Advertiser. She has also worked at Business Review Weekly, The Australian and as investigative journalist and senior business commentator for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Included in her many journalism awards are nine Walkley Awards, including the 2014 Gold Walkley for “Banking Bad” – for which she also won a Logie Award; the Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year Award; 20 Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards, including two Gold Quills; 14 Kennedy Awards, including two Gold Kennedy Awards; and National Press Club awards including Journalist of the Year.
In the 2019 Australia Day Honours Adele was made a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the print and broadcast media as a journalist and business commentator.
She has written two best selling books, “Gina Rinehart: The Untold Story of the Richest Woman in the World” and “Banking Bad, Whistleblowers, Corporations and Coverups. One journalist’s fight for the truth”.
She is also Chair of the Walkley Foundation.
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Friday 9 June -
Ishkandar Razak presenting in Victoria tonight.
Tuesday 13 June and Wednesday 14 June -
Tamara Oudyn reads the weather in Victoria tonight.
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NSW state political reporter Ashleigh Raper is joining 10 in July, to become 10 News First’s political editor.
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Wow. Andrew Probyn made redundant from ABC. Extraordinary.
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The press gallery at Canberra’s Parliament House will be shocked by Probyn’s sacking.
I hope this is not a sign that the ABC is downgrading its coverage of federal political news.
Has Nine filled the role of political editor after the departure of (Probyn’s former ABC colleague) Chris Uhlmann last year? If not, it should speak to Probyn ASAP.
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Charles Croucher - Who always appears to be in Sydney anyway.
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There’s also been a suggestion that the ABC is making a push towards video journalists and that there will be a significant thinning of behind the camera staff in the news division
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One of the very few improvements at Sky in recent years is the introduction of more camera operators and less video journalists. It has made a markable difference to the quality of their news bulletins. A move from the ABC to reduce behind the camera staff, especially in a critical location like Parliament House, is concerning.
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The ABC is quite possibly our single largest media organisation and is consistently the most valued and trusted by the broader public. Why it thinks it no longer needs a political editor in this day and age is really enormously staggering. With so much political spin and messaging going on, not just here but also from overseas, why is an overarching political editor no longer deemed necessary?
I mean, gosh, even Ten, who treat news like an unloved child, have just appointed a new political editor. If even Ten can see value in such a role, I can’t see why ABC doesn’t.
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Maybe that’s just how they’re justifying the redundancy. They’ll appoint someone ‘Chief Political Correspondent’ or ‘Political Director’ soon.
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probably on a much lower pay, too.
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Laura Tingle runs circles around him. No wonder they think they no longer need a political editor.
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100%, she could easily be the network editor across News and 7.30.
It won’t be for much longer.
fair point. she is good.
Reaction from some other political editors
In what parallel universe does the ABC not require a political editor to cover federal politics? Particularly one of the calibre of @andrewprobyn - one of the hardest working newshounds in the business. Crazy.
— Mark Riley (@Riley7News) June 15, 2023
.@andrewprobyn is the hardest working ABC journalist I know and the broadcaster's best and most constant news breaker. And they've sacked him because they suddenly don't need a political editor. What a disgrace from an organisation full of middle-management time servers. @abcnews
— Phillip Coorey (@PhillipCoorey) June 15, 2023
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