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Karina Carvalho quits ABC News

News anchor will depart after 17 years with public broadcaster.

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Karina Carvalho has quit ABC News after 17 years with the broadcaster.

Currently presenting for ABC News channel, her final news bulletin will screen on Wednesday.

Carvalho began her journalism career in Perth after graduating from the WA Academy of Performing Arts.

She headed overseas to London and worked for BBC World News and worked on HARDtalk as a producer. She headed back to Australia and began work at ABC News in Perth in 2007, later becoming Western Australia’s 7pm ABC News anchor for three and a half years.

In 2012 she moved to Melbourne and co-hosted News Breakfast and later in Brisbane became news anchor for 5 years.

“The ABC will always have a special place in my heart, I’ve been able to meet and work with so many talented people,” she told The Australian.

“Now is the right time to venture into the next phase of my career and I’m excited to see what’s around the corner.

“I wish my colleagues at the ABC nothing but the best.”

16 Responses

  1. So many good people leaving the ABC or getting sacked, it is a worry! Justin Stevens really is dumbing down that news and current affairs division, intent on chasing a younger audience, and putting the emphasis on clickbait.
    Gone are the days of decent ABC investigative reporting. Their news bulletins now really are indistinguishable from their counterparts on commercial stations, and News Breakfast is fast becoming a lightweight carbon copy of Sunrise or Today.

  2. Very sorry to read that Karina is leaving the ABC. Like others I can’t help but wonder why so many others have signed off recently-Tracey Holmes, Mary Gearin and that’s not taking into account the number of changes with many favourites being dropped from ABC RN. Many of these excellent journalists are mid career. ABC needs this experience.

    1. … nothing unusual … the average age of ABC staff has been trending down for quite a while now and those over forty feel out of place … I think they call it “renewal” or something …

  3. I’m not really an ABC viewer, but even I can see they are in crisis mode at the moment. Something is not right and management seems hellbent on addresing the smallest of problems while turning a blind eye to the big cultural/editorial problem they seem to have. From the outside, it does seem like they have a partiality problem, tending to lean towards the left and social justice causes rather than balanced.

    1. Impressive insight from someone who doesn’t really watch the ABC…..I am an avid ABC watcher and some of the most critical factual (not Sky news opinion stuff) of Labor (both state and federal) comes from the ABC. Just ask Dan Andrew’s what he thinks of Leigh Sales.

      1. Sometimes the best way to identify issues is with fresh eyes. Sure, I’m not the avid viewer you are. But there’s also nothing enticing me to tune in, especially with all the bad PR floating around.

      2. Reading that Leigh Sales was desperately trying to maintain that the Uluru statement was only one page was quite disappointing. It obviously wasn’t. It caught Albanese off-gaurd. “Why should I” when asked if he read it. Lost a lot of respect.

  5. There’s a lot of speculation about people leaving the ABC because of concerns about the editorial direction. Also a big radio star either resigning or being ousted, and the sudden cancellation of The Drum. I agree with Maev….Sydney. What’s going on? We need good respectable public broadcasting for everyone.

    1. The Drum’s cancellation can hardly be called sudden. At it’s peak it rated 600,000 viewers a night and had serious guests and discussions. As the internet turned nastier and it was expanded to 5 nights a week it slumped to 120-140,000 and they just keep churning out the same stuff night after night. Q&A has fared similarly. Local radio, Radio National and JJJ all have declining audiences. People aren’t interested in any facts, debate or opinions that don’t fit their own prejudices, even if you do try to pander to that they can always find something more extreme a mouse click away.

  7. I have really enjoyed watching Karina in her myriad of roles at the ABC. She has a natural warmth and ability to convey the right emotion and message depending on the story, and that’s not something I can see about all the presenters. ABC News will not be the same without her. I wish Karina all the very best for her future pursuits.

  8. Hello David , can you tell me the reason please why you left out one of the reasons she left the ABC , that is mentioned in the article in The Australian.

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