Fourth Estate

The Watergate scandal was already unfolding when Jeff McMullen arrived in the United States in 1972, having just been appointed as the ABC's New York Correspondent.

He would spend the next decade filing compelling stories for Four Corners on the turmoil surrounding nuclear waste, uranium mining and the plight of the Native Americans.

During his years covering the Reagan White House, Jeff made the difficult decision to leave the ABC for the Nine Network's 60 Minutes, at a time when current affairs television was at its peak.

In part two of his conversation with Tina Quinn, Jeff discusses these extraordinary decades and the purpose that still guides him.

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Within 12 months of joining the ABC in 1966, 18 year old Jeff McMullen took his very first posting as a Foreign Correspondent to Papua New Guinea

It was the beginning of a multi-decade career, which would see him cover the Watergate scandal in the United States, the coup in Chile, the famine in Eritrea and the genocide in Guatemala.

As part of our ongoing series of profiles, Jeff joined Tina Quinn in studio talk about what began his attraction to far flung places, his love for storytelling and his desire to better understand humankind.

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This week we again dip back into the Fourth Estate archives, to August of 2021, when Tina Quinn assembled journalists Jeff McMullen, Chris Masters and Morag Ramsay to commemorate the 60th birthday, Four Corners.

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The first round of voluntary redundancies from Nine Entertainment have been announced, with 85 journalists at what was once the Fairfax papers, packing their bags.

But could the supposed bloodletting lead to a worsening prognosis for Australia's largest media company?

Journalists Jonathan Green, Kerry-Anne Walsh and Scott Mitchell join Tina Quinn to discuss.

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Its been more bad news this week for the already embattled Seven Network, with Four Corners airing a searing expose into the commercial broadcaster's workplace culture.

The picture painted was one of bullying, harassment and misogyny.

Four Corners Investigative Reporter, Louise Milligan joined Tina Quinn and Virginia Haussegger, who herself navigated a multi-decade career in television news and current affairs to discuss the allegations uncovered.

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When Margaret Throsby first came through the doors of the ABC in 1967, as the new “announcer” on staff, she was the only woman in a room full of men.

As part of our ongoing series of profiles, the incomparable broadcaster joined Tina Quinn in studio to talk about the remarkable 56 year career that followed.

The word legend is often generously bandied about, but its fitting for the famously velvet voiced presenter, who in 1978 would become the first woman to read the news for ABC Television, encouraging commercial networks to quickly follow suit, and who is thought to have conducted over 15,000 interviews during her decades long career.

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There's a new presidential candidate in town, and her name is Kamala Harris. Proving that a week is a very long time in politics, the presumptive nomination of the vice-president to the top of the Democratic ticket has changed the conversation surrounding the 2024 US election yet again.

Joining Tina Quinn to analyse these latest developments is political reporter for The Washington Post, Mariana Alfaro, and features editor for The Age, Maher Mughrabi.

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We're still months away from the US election, and already the 2024 presidential race is proving even more tumultuous than previous years, with a gunman opening fire on the former President, Donald Trump at a political rally.

Now many are wondering whether the attempt on Trump's life may have sealed the fate of the election?

Tina Quinn is joined by Walkley award-winning journalist, Hamish Macdonald and US political commentator, Kim Hoggard to discuss.

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To kick off Fourth Estate’s series of profiles, radio trailblazer Angela Catterns joined Tina Quinn in studio to talk about a career thats included getting fired for sounding “too intelligent”, smoking spliffs in the Triple J studios and knocking Alan Jones from number one.

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The Washington Post, long held up as a beacon of great american journalism, has found itself the subject of some very bad headlines the last number of weeks.

NPR's David Folkenflik and Peter Jukes of The Byline Times, join Tina Quinn to discuss how the esteemed 'paper of record' has itself become the story.

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