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News Corp veteran Clare Armstrong poached for the ABC’s chief politics job
News Corp’s national political editor Clare Armstrong is headed to the ABC after almost a decade with Murdoch, Crikey can reveal.
Armstrong will take up the role of chief digital political correspondent, taking over from Jacob Greber, who recently headed to 7.30 as political editor to replace Laura Tingle. Tingle stepped down in May to become the ABC’s global affairs editor, replacing veteran reporter John Lyons, who moved from global affairs to the Americas beat.
Armstrong is no stranger to the ABC, having appeared a number of times on the broadcaster’s flagship political discussion show, Insiders.
Having started as a cadet with Brisbane’s Courier-Mail in 2016, Armstrong took the leading role for News Corp’s political coverage across all of its metropolitan mastheads in September 2022, after having the same role at Sydney’s Daily Telegraph from 2019 to 2022.
In 2021, Armstrong won the National Press Club’s Wallace Brown Young Journalist Award, which is given to the best young journalist in the federal press gallery. She previously also held a role at the News Corp-owned Townsville Bulletin as a political reporter from 2018-2019, and studied journalism/arts at the University of Queensland.
Some of the names that had been rumoured for the role include former Guardian Australia political editor Karen Middleton, The West Australian’s Canberra bureau chief Katina Curtis, and The Saturday Paper’s special correspondent Jason Koutsoukis.
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