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Former Q+A host Stan Grant announced a new career move after dramatically leaving ABC last year following racist online attacks.
The Saturday Paper has announced that Grant, a multiple Walkley award-winning journalist, will join the paper as a columnist starting this weekend, which coincides with the publication’s 10th anniversary.
Grant has worked in 80 locations around the world as a journalist, presenter, author and filmmaker over four decades in the media.
His most recent high-profile role was hosting Q&A from 2022 to 2023 until he retired, saying he was fed up with the racial abuse directed at him from online commentators, as well as dissatisfaction with the landscape of the media in general.
‘The Saturday Paper is a newspaper for writers and its readers want to engage with ideas. That’s where I want my work to land,” Grant said of his new role.
Stan Grant (and his wife Tracey Holmes) during a screening of the documentary ‘The Australian Dream’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, sponsored by his new employer, The Saturday Paper.
Since leaving the ABC, Grant has been appointed Asia-Pacific director of the Constructive Institute, a Denmark-based institution focused on positive journalism that operates in conjunction with Monash University.
“I have been fortunate to have traveled the world during my 40-year journalism career, covering the big stories of our time, and I want to contribute that experience to understanding a world in which too often we talk to each other rather than to each other. ‘, said.
“Journalism has been part of the problem, but I still believe that words matter and my promise to readers is that my columns will seek shared humanity, a commitment to justice and support the grieving with generosity and love.”
Grant is of Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi and Dharawal heritage.
He has three Walkley Awards, a Logie, a Peabody and four Asian Television Awards.
Saturday Paper editor-in-chief Erik Jensen said: “There are few people who write with Stan’s grace and erudition.
“He is one of the most insightful journalists in the country and brings a great reserve of intellect and feeling to his work.”
Jensen said Grant’s column will seek to inspire readers and provoke in-depth debate by drawing on his wealth of experience.
“He believes in the ability of ideas to change society, and that is what his column will attempt to do.”
Grant dramatically left ABC in 2023 citing dissatisfaction with online trolling, ABC management and the broader media landscape.
Grant’s departure from Q+A sparked a broader conversation about the public role of journalists, particularly those from diverse backgrounds, and the degree to which they are protected by management.
It also sparked protests from ABC staff who walked off the job in solidarity with Grant.
During his last appearance as a Q&A host, he left with a heartfelt speech in which he questioned whether the media had become “part of the problem” by dividing society.
Subsequently, his ABC colleague Patricia Karvelas was named as his replacement.