Q&A creator Peter McEvoy to leave the ABC

  • 📰 smh
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 42 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 20%
  • Publisher: 80%

Australia Headlines News

Australia Latest News,Australia Headlines

The brains behind Q&A, Peter McEvoy, to leave the ABC after 30 years

Peter McEvoy will produce his last edition ofat the end of 2019. He first pitched the current affairs format 12 years ago and has been with the ABC for three decades.

Q&A creator and executive producer Peter McEvoy, left, with host Tony Jones during the show's 10th anniversary celebrations."In 2007 we set out to make an innovative, audience-focused program that would challenge, explain and shape national discourse," Mr McEvoy said in a statement. "I'm proud of the way we have achieved that consistently and in such an entertaining way over the period.[has] become a weekly part of the national agenda.

Since then, the ABC has broadcast more than 400 episodes and last year celebrated a decade on air. The show hasn't been without its share of controversial moments, including letting former terror suspect Zaky Mallah interrogate Liberal National MP Steven Ciobo about the country's counter-terrorism laws. Mallah had been found not guilty at trial.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 6. in AU

Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Q&A creator Peter McEvoy to leave the ABCThe executive producer and creator of Q&A has announced he will leave the ABC after 30 years at the public broadcaster
Source: theage - 🏆 8. / 77 Read more »

Q&A creator Peter McEvoy to leave the ABCThe executive producer and creator of Q&A has announced he will leave the ABC after 30 years at the public broadcaster
Source: theage - 🏆 8. / 77 Read more »

Surgeries at major Brisbane hospital cancelled after sterilisation equipment 'malfunction'Staff at the Princess Alexandra Hospital on Brisbane's southside told the ABC they noticed rust on some equipment earlier this week.
Source: abcnews - 🏆 5. / 83 Read more »

Engineers worried recladding Adelaide building would hurt reputation, leaked documents showReplacing cladding at the Adelaide Convention Centre continued to be discussed by senior staff at a fire engineering firm months after the Government ruled it out, emails obtained by the ABC show.
Source: abcnews - 🏆 5. / 83 Read more »

There's been a lack of women in our news coverage — here's how we're fixing itABC News' 50:50 project aims to achieve equal representation of women and men in our content by end of 2020. First cover the Amazon forest news PrayForTheAmazon This network and the rest of the socialist propagandists for the Democrats are only doing this because, the truth is being disclosed about your corruption, lies, racism, fascism and so many other things I would run out of characters before I could list them all. Disgusting we have JessicaStrutt in Perth, how lucky are we to have such a talented person on ourABC
Source: abcnews - 🏆 5. / 83 Read more »

Melbourne Archbishop stands by Pell, questions if victim was was abused by someone elseMelbourne Archbishop Peter Comensoli says he believes his friend, convicted pedophile George Pell, when he protests his innocence. when the verdict given please the claimant whose cause sustained he'll extol law's reason & justice utter obedience he'll contend yet when by the same law denied he'll the miscarriage exhort, oppression of jurisprudence as implied declare defiance of the court GeorgePell Outrage porn, a media bestseller. The numpties jump on cue everytime.
Source: SBSNews - 🏆 3. / 89 Read more »