Helen McCabe swaps Sunday Telegraph for ACP’s Australian Women’s Weekly

Tim Burrowes

July 23, 2009 4:59

Sunday Telegraph deputy editor Helen McCabe is quitting to join ACP’s Australian Women’s Weekly as editor-in-chief, one of the biggest jobs in Australian magazines.

McCabe told Mumbrella: “I’m looking forward to it incredibly. The main challenge for me as a newspaper person is to get my head around the dynamic of magazines. The challenge is to find fabulous stories that inspire the readership. I’m a news journo’s journo.”

McCabe – who will continue to present her politics show on Sky News – began her career with the Seven network in Adelaide. She said: “I’m a political junkie.”

Asked whether the new role on the monthly will see her need to take a more lightweight approach to journalism, she said: ‘I don’t think so. I have done tabloids and broadsheets in equal measure. A yarn’s a yarn whether it’s in the Tele or the Australian.”

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.