Ben Butler jumps from News Corp to the ABC
The Australian’s national investigations editor has taken a role at the ABC after he was let go in the company’s most recent round of redundancies.
Ben Butler announced on Linkedin that he joined ABC this week, “working on investigations with my old colleague Adele Ferguson”.
Butler was previously the national investigations editor at News Corp, “having investigated everything from bikie gangs to multibillion dollar international frauds, with a particular focus on the intersection between the corporate and criminal worlds,” according to his author bio.
Prior to joining News Corp, he worked for The Guardian.
Butler was one of a number of senior journalists quietly made redundant at News Corp over the past fortnight.
Former European correspondent Charles Miranda was let go “after 30.5 years of getting chased, shot at, bombed and detained at gunpoint”, as he put it on Linkedin, as was News Corp’s national health reporter Sue Dunlevy, who spent over 35 years with the company.
Investigative reporter Natalie O’Brien, and senior reporter Andrew Koubaridis were also let go in recent weeks.
Prior to this latest round of redundancies, News Corp removed a slew of senior staffers, including Michael Wilkins, managing director of the company’s national sport brands, Marcus Hooke, general manager of print production, news.com.au’s editor-in-chief Lisa Muxworthy, and Editorial Innovation Centre director John McGourty.
Mumbrella has reached out to Butler for more clarification regarding his new role at the ABC.
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