Кристофер Джон Митчелл: Жизнь и карьера австралийского журналиста

Australian journalist

Christopher John Mitchell is an Australian journalist. He was the editor in chief of The Australian from 2002 to 2015.

In 1973 Mitchell began his career as a 17 year old cadet on the former afternoon Brisbane tabloid, The Telegraph. After working at the Townsville Bulletin, The Daily Telegraph and The Australian Financial Review, he joined The Australian in 1984. In 1992, aged 35, Mitchell was appointed editor of The Australian. In 1995 he became editor in chief of Queensland Newspapers. In the role, he had editorial oversight of The Cairns Post, Townsville Bulletin and Gold Coast Bulletin. Prior to his retirement, Mitchell had completed 42 years as a journalist with 24 of those years as an editor. Rupert Murdoch praised his contributions as News Corporation's longest serving editor worldwide. Speaking at its launch, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull described the book as containing "a crisp plain English account of the dynamics of politics and the media in Australia".

Mitchell was named by academic Clive Hamilton as one of Australia's "Dirty Dozen", a list people he believed to be "doing the most to block action on climate change in Australia". He featured in editions of the list published in 2006, 2009 and 2014. In 2017, Mitchell wrote an opinion piece entitled "Climate hysteria hits 'peak stupid' in hurricane season".

as of November 2020 he is an Ambassador for the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation.

In the 2019 Australia Day Honours Mitchell was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for "distinguished service to the print media through senior editorial roles, as a journalist, and to Indigenous education programs".