Hutcheon farewells ABC
By Neeraja Gopalakrishnan in Media News on Wednesday, 30th November 2022 at 9:02pmStephen Hutcheon has announced his departure after a splendid four-decade career in journalism.
Hutcheon was a supervising producer, leading the Digital Story Innovation team at ABC News to develop innovative ways of telling stories and finding new audiences.
Hutcheon took it to LinkedIn saying he departs “with some regrets, mainly about quitting the team and farewelling other colleagues but wanted to leave on his terms."
“After 40 years in journalism, first at The Sydney Morning Herald and then at ABC News, I've decided to take a break from structured work,” he said.
“I thought my working days were over in 2017 when I took a voluntary redundancy from the SMH, but then Kimberley Porteous (with the backing of ex-ABC news director Gaven Morris) approached me about a gig ...
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