NEWSREADER STAN GRANT QUITS AUSTRALIA’S SBS TV – TIPPED TO WORK IN PR FOR WORLD BANK
December 13th 2007 02:16
SBS Television has announced that World News Australia newsreader Stan Grant will leave SBS tomorrow “to take up a new challenge.”
Grant, who has been with World News Australia since its shift to the one-hour format at the beginning of the year, will be replaced by Anton Enus.
Stan Grant said, ""It is no secret this has been a difficult year, but I thank everyone at SBS news for continuing to deliver a first class product and it is with some sadness that I leave such a committed, dedicated and talented news team."
The difficulties that Grant refers to include acrimony between himself and news co-host Mary Kostakidis who quit the station after a 20-year career, and subsequently sued it.
Grant told News Ltd’s Herald-Sun newspaper in Melbourne that he was possibly leaving TV altogether, and that his new job, which was still being negotiated, would likely involve overseas travel.
Melbourne’s Fairfax broadsheet, The Age said there are suggestions Grant’s new job “may be a public relations role with the World Bank.”
Stan Grant, who has worked for CNN, is Australia’s first and only indigenous male news presenter on a national television channel, although this is very rarely referred to in the Australian media.
SBS director Peter Carroll will also leave on Friday after his 11-year term was not extended by the former federal government, but the new government has not decided on a replacement.
- From MediaBlab news service via Dow Jones' Factiva
Grant, who has been with World News Australia since its shift to the one-hour format at the beginning of the year, will be replaced by Anton Enus.
Stan Grant said, ""It is no secret this has been a difficult year, but I thank everyone at SBS news for continuing to deliver a first class product and it is with some sadness that I leave such a committed, dedicated and talented news team."
The difficulties that Grant refers to include acrimony between himself and news co-host Mary Kostakidis who quit the station after a 20-year career, and subsequently sued it.
Melbourne’s Fairfax broadsheet, The Age said there are suggestions Grant’s new job “may be a public relations role with the World Bank.”
Stan Grant, who has worked for CNN, is Australia’s first and only indigenous male news presenter on a national television channel, although this is very rarely referred to in the Australian media.
SBS director Peter Carroll will also leave on Friday after his 11-year term was not extended by the former federal government, but the new government has not decided on a replacement.
- From MediaBlab news service via Dow Jones' Factiva
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