‘My columns will look to a shared humanity’: Stan Grant announces next move
To coincide with its 10th anniversary, The Saturday Paper has announced that multiple Walkley Award and Peabody winner Stan Grant will join as a columnist.
Having worked as a journalist, presenter, filmmaker and author and reported from more than 80 countries, Grant is set to join The Saturday Paper this weekend.
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“The Saturday Paper is a writers’ paper and its readers want to engage with ideas. That’s where I want my work to land,” Grant explained.
“I’ve been fortunate to have travelled the world over a 40-year career in journalism, covering the great stories of our time, and I want to bring that experience to understanding a world where far too often we speak across each other not to each other.
“Journalism has been part of the problem, but I still think words matter and my promise to readers is that my columns will look to a shared humanity, to a commitment to justice, and stand with the afflicted in generosity and love.”
The Saturday Paper editor in chief, Erik Jensen, added: “There are few people who write with Stan’s grace and erudition. He is one of the country’s sharpest journalists and he brings to his work a great store of intellect and feeling. He believes in the capacity of ideas to change society – and that is what his column will seek to do.”
Prior to his appointment at The Saturday Paper, Grant hosted ABC’s Q&A from 2022 to 2023.
In May last year, he stepped away from the program after being “fed up” with the “relentless racial filth” he had been subjected to, with no plans to return. The ABC denied any claims it ignored research into the online abuse of its diverse journalists, including Grant, which acted as a catalyst for a number of staff protests against the broadcaster, with Sydney and Melbourne staff walking off the job later that month in solidarity.
Grant delivered an emotional speech in his final Q&A episode, criticising Australian media for sometimes being “a poison in the bloodstream of our society”. In June, Patricia Karvelas was named as his Q&A replacement.
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Stan Grant is all about Stan Grant – nothing new here folks.
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Stan is a brilliant writer and I love hearing his perspectives, whether it’s about current events, Australian history, or his reflections on the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of humanity and how people treat one another. I look forward to reading his column.
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