SYDNEY, May 28 (Reuters) – The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has appointed a senior Reuters executive, Simon Robinson, as its director of news and current affairs, the two news organisations said on Thursday.
Robinson, now executive editor at Reuters, will start with the Australian public broadcaster in September, ABC Managing Director Hugh Marks said in a statement released on the ABC’s website.
A London-based Australian national, Robinson replaces Justin Stevens, who resigned from the ABC on Wednesday after four years in the role, citing personal and professional reasons.
Robinson will be replaced by Nick Tattersall, Reuters global managing editor, newsroom, Reuters Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni said in a note to staff.
Before his appointment as executive editor in October 2022, Robinson, who joined Reuters in 2010, ran investigations and enterprise reporting in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for just under seven years, editing award-winning series on Iran, Russia, corporate taxation, Greek banks and migration.
Between 1995 and 2010, Robinson was a correspondent, then editor for Time magazine, reporting from more than 50 countries in Africa, South Asia, the Middle East and Europe. He has published short stories and written and produced an award-winning satirical movie about aid workers and journalists in Africa.
Robinson’s appointment to the ABC was first reported by the Guardian in Australia.
Reuters, a unit of Thomson Reuters, has more than 2,600 journalists reporting from 200 locations around the world, 50 million monthly digital users and hundreds of thousands of professional users via Thomson Reuters and LSEG products.
(Reporting by Praveen Menon; Editing by William Mallard)
