It’s been five weeks since Andrew Probyn lost his job when the ABC declared the role of political editor for TV news was redundant. By all accounts Probyn is angry and hurt by the decision to dump him so publicly, which was exacerbated by the appointment of the Insiders host, David Speers, as national political lead.
But, across the commercial divide in the Canberra press gallery, there may be a shiny new role for the former newspaper reporter who turned his hand to TV reporting for the ABC’s 7pm bulletin six years ago.