Stephen Crittenden

One of Australia's leading religion journalists and a broadcaster for ABC Radio National. Crittenden began his radio career as a schoolboy, broadcasting with Sydney's classical FM community radio station 2MBS-FM. After working as a policy officer in the NSW Cabinet Office (1986–88), he joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1989 as a reporter for ABC Radio Current Affairs. In 1995–96 he was the national arts correspondent for the 7.30 Report, and he later went on to be one of the presenters of Express, a weekly magazine arts program based in Melbourne. In 1999 he was appointed as Executive Producer of ABC Radio's Religion department, a post he held until the beginning of 2002 when he returned to a full-time on air role as host of The Religion Report. When the Religion Report was cancelled, Crittenden moved to reporting on ABC Radio National's current affairs program Background Briefing, and later as a producer on Late Night Live. From 2014 to 2017 he worked in a senior policy role with the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.