ABC political editor Andrew Probyn made redundant by national broadcaster

Probyn said he was told by the ABC they no longer need a political editor and they want to reinvest the money into social and digital reporting roles'

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The ABC political editor Andrew Probyn has been made redundant, and said he was pretty flabbergasted" to be told by the national broadcaster that they no longer needed a political editor for the TV news.

Probyn is the most high-profile journalist so far to be targeted in a cull of as many as 100 jobs before a major restructure of the corporation kicks in on 1 July.