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Sophie ElsworthEurope Correspondent

Sophie is Europe correspondent for News Corporation Australia and began reporting from Europe in November 2024. Her role includes covering all the big issues in Europe reporting for titles including The Daily and Sunday Telegraphs, daily and Sunday Herald Sun, The Courier-Mail and Brisbane’s Sunday Mail and Adelaide’s The Advertiser and Sunday Mail as well as regional and community brands. She has worked at numerous News Corp publications throughout her career and was media writer at The Australian, based in Melbourne, for four years before moving to the UK. She has also worked as a reporter at the Herald Sun in Melbourne, The Advertiser in Adelaide and The Courier-Mail in Brisbane and on the Sunshine Coast. Sophie regularly appears on TV and is a Sky News Australia contributor appearing on primetime programs including Credlin and The Kenny Report, a role she continues while in Europe. She graduated from university with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees and grew up on a sheep farm in central Victoria.

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US journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, stands inside a defendants' cage before a hearing to consider an appeal on his extended pre-trial detention at the Moscow City Court in Moscow on October 10, 2023. Gershkovich was detained in March during a reporting trip to the Urals and accused of spying -- charges that he, the US government and his employer, the Wall Street Journal, vehemently deny. In August his pre-trial detention was extended by three months. (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA / AFP)

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16/3/18 ABC presenter Patricia Karvelas at ABC studios in Southbank. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Q+A to return despite its struggling ratings

ABC’s political chatfest program Q+A will return for a 17th season in 2024 despite its inability to lift struggling ratings after a tempestuous year.

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RMIT FactLab and RMIT ABC Fact Check director Russell Skelton. Photo: Supplied

Training ordered for uni FactLab

The Melbourne-based fact-checking organisation’s international accreditation has been restored, but it has more to do if it wants its partnership with Meta back.

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Journalists Tracey Holmes and Stan Grant are seen during the gala screening of the Australian documentary 'The Australian Dream' at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Tuesday, August 20, 2019. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

Grant and his wife Tracey Holmes criticise the ABC

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3AW broadcaster Jacqui Felgate promoting a paid partnership with Maybelline on social media. Source: Instagram.

Sponsorship deals raise alarm at Nine

Concerns were shared among the Peter Costello-chaired board, including questions about how Nine Radio could have failed to declare dozens of commercial partnerships by top hosts including Ben Fordham, Jacqui Felgate and others.

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