Andrew Thorpe

Journalist at @abcnews. Formerly producer, op-eds editor at @canberratimes. Decidedly amateur stand-up. All views my own. Signal: [phone].

[Brendan Duke @Brendan_Duke]

Some professional advice: never take a job where you’re required to say “my boss has a different way of calculating percentages.”

[Nick Schadegg @nickschadegg]

ABC journalists never do any real work! unlike me, the guy whose job it is to follow ABC journalists around at the pub and catalogue their drink orders

[Andrew Thorpe @AndrewThorpe]

Standing with my @withMEAA colleagues this round of EBA negotiations with ABC management. The reason why is pretty simple — a pay "rise" below inflation is not a pay rise, and is particularly disappointing at a time when everyone here is being asked to do more with less.

[MEAA @withMEAA]

ABC staff across the country walked off the job at 11am today for 24 hours for secure jobs, fair pay and the future of quality public broadcasting all Australians rely on.

Share this post to show your support.

#QualityNewsQualityJobs

[Andrew Thorpe @AndrewThorpe]

Joining my @withMEAA colleagues on the picket line today as we ask ABC management to deliver a fair wage increase and guardrails around the use of AI in our journalism.

[MEAA @withMEAA]

MEAA members at the ABC are on strike from 11am today (AEDT) for 24 hours.

To show your support, we ask that during this time you don’t cross the digital picket line by engaging with ABC content. This means no clicks on social content and no visits to the ABC website.

[Yair Rosenberg @Yair_Rosenberg]

A reminder from before this all started: Grok cannot analyze video, it cannot analyze audio, and it cannot confirm subtitles on a foreign language clip. But it will confidently lie to you and pretend that it can.

[Andrew Thorpe @AndrewThorpe]

BBC Persia is crediting this pic to IRNA, which it says is claiming it shows a tanker on fire in the Strait of Hormuz.

Problem is, it's actually a 2019 Reuters still of a ship in the Kerch Strait near Crimea — and I can't find any instances of IRNA sharing it, only the BBC.

[BBC NEWS فارسی @bbcpersian]

سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی از حمله پهپادی به یک نفتکش در صبح امروز خبر داده است.
در لینک زیر بیشتر بخوانید

📸IRNA

https://t.co/AZOzo1CGc2

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Looks like @elonmusk took the verification check away from Iran’s foreign minister. Only result will be to generate confusion and misinformation.

[Andrew Thorpe @AndrewThorpe]

@MDJD2 @jonkarl @_Jen_nifer_1 You really have to divorce any and all context from that sentence to think it's an unreasonable thing for Karl to say.

[Jonathan Karl @jonkarl]

In a lengthy phone interview, President Trump marveled at the success of the military operation against Iran and expressed no concern about what comes next.

"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?"

I said nobody questions the success of the military operation, the concern is what happens next.

"Forget about next," he answered. "They are decimated for a 10-year period before they could build it back."

[Michael Miller @MikeMillerDC]

It was an honor to be @washingtonpost's first Sydney bureau chief. Unfortunately, I'm also the last. The paper is shrinking foreign coverage. I've lost my job. Worse, millions of readers will lose my colleagues' brilliant coverage. At a time of tumult, we need more info, not less

[Lizzie Johnson @lizziejohnsonnn]

I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.

[Evan Hill @evanhill]

Multiple images seems to show a big screen where they've searched "venezuela" on X.

[Andrew Thorpe @AndrewThorpe]

Poignant study of human connection forged through grief, or Taken-style revenge flick?

[Andrew Thorpe @AndrewThorpe]

@FBGreatMoments Thought it might have been Baker but was wondering about the hopping until I saw the point to the end zone. That's Brock Purdy 100%.

[Andrew Thorpe @AndrewThorpe]

RT @nswpolice: Police are responding to a developing incident at Bondi Beach and are urging the public to AVOID the area. Anyone at the sce…

[Ukraine Control Map @UAControlMap]

Fantastic usage of OSINT. Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases.

https://t.co/ouGbsqCgb2

[Andrew Thorpe @AndrewThorpe]

https://t.co/UHwd318rcs

[Andrew Thorpe @AndrewThorpe]

A must-read from @Kate_McClymont.

[The Sydney Morning Herald @smh]

Long lunches, Swiss bank accounts and a kangaroo scrotum: My decades pursuing Graham Richardson https://t.co/77rN4mYSXj