Probyn said he was told by the ABC they ‘no longer need a political editor and they want to reinvest the money into social and digital reporting roles’
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The ABC political editor Andrew Probyn has been made redundant, and said he was “pretty flabbergasted” to be told by the national broadcaster that they no longer needed a political editor for TV news.
Probyn is the most high-profile journalist so far to be targeted in a cull of as many as 100 jobs before a major restructure of the corporation kicks in on 1 July. In ABC News a total of 40 roles have been made redundant.
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