Drama at the ABC as a shock favorite comes from nowhere to replace Laura Tingle at 7.30 am

A clear favorite has emerged in the long -awaited race to replace Laura Tingle in one of the most prestigious positions of the National Omroep.

Employees of the ABC expect the coveted role of political correspondent for the nocturnal current business program of the broadcaster 7.30 Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Greber is moving forward in what was tipped to be a multi-head race to fill the gap that was left when Tingle announced earlier this month that she would replace John Lyons as the outgoing editor of the Global Affairs broadcaster.

Earlier rumors suggested that the role might have gone to a number of insiders from Canberra Bureau, including Chief David Lipson, editor of the National Affairs Melissa Clark and Insiders host David Speers.

Q+a host Patricia Karvelas and ABC Radio Melbourne host Raf Epstein ruled himself from running when he was contacted by the messenger.

Tingle, a double Walkley-Award-winning political journalist, will start a new position halfway through the year, while Lyon’s packs to become the ABCs Americas editor.

Under the best respected political journalists from the nation with more than 40 years of experience, including six years in her last message, Tingle leaves big shoes to fill.

“The course was advertised and I asked for it,” Tingle said The Australian Last week.

Outgoing 7.30 political editor Laura Tingle (photo) will replace John Lyons as the ABCs Global Affairs Editor for six years

ABC’s most important digital political correspondent Jacob Greber (photo) has been tipped to replace Laura Tingle as the political editor of the flagship.

“It’s the best job in journalism, I think, except the one I already have.”

A colleague -financial evaluation of Aluin, will spend Tingle traveling over the world about events ‘that also shape our nation’ over the next two years.

Despite the public advertising for his shift from television to digital, the promise of the former general manager David Anderson’s Five Year Plan, 7.30 the jewel remains in the crown of the broadcaster.

Presented by former four corners-host Sarah Ferguson, the program had an average nightly viewers of 756,000 in the financial year 2023-24 according to the annual report of ABC.

A dip of COVID era highs of the three previous tax years, the program nevertheless retained its popularity, despite the fear of a fall-out after the departure of 2022 of the inaugural presenter Leigh Sales.

Despite the fact that it was less known than Karvelas or Speers, Greber would bring for decades of temporary and printer experience and some cachet as a reliable face on news breakfast, insiders, afternoon briefing, weekend breakfast and of course 7.30.

The more front-facing role offers a greater opportunity for controversy from the Tingle brand has been entangled in recent years.

Last year she was accused of dropping the veil of journalistic impartiality when she accused the then opposition leader Peter Dutton of firing racism by establishing immigration caps as a possible ointment for the home crisis.

David Speers (third left) and Patricia Karvelas (second right) belonged to those who were expected to fight for the plum role

She said that Mr. Dutton’s rhetoric had previously sent a ‘terrible cold by me’, during the same Sydney Writers Festival event, in which Australia was described as ‘a racist country’.

ABC news director Justin Stevens later said that Tingle’s comments, although not in a working capacity, had encouraged the broadcaster to remind her of the ‘application’ of her ‘conversation’ rhetoric to ‘external events’.

Before the six -year -old Stint van Tingle at 7.30 am the coveted role was something of a hot potato that went through the hands of four presenters through the six years between 2012 and 2018.

Sarah Ferguson (photo) has organized 7.30 am since the replacement of veteran reporter Leigh Sales in 2022

She Andrew Probyn replaced that was recently made superfluous as political editor of the broadcaster in 2023.

Reportedly, internal ABC documents said that the move was part of a calculated efforts to reform the outdated, top-hand structure of the Canberra office, still largely focused on linear television broadcast ‘.

The appointment of Greber on the newly printed role of Chief Digital Political Correspondent was generally considered a de facto plants of the flag in the ‘digital’ strategy of the broadcaster.

Whether he will be chosen for the nocturnal news role from Plum is not clear, but could suggest that the digital transition has not yet left the prestige of the television broadcast.