ABC Upfronts 2026 | Coming to your feed: ABC News Loop – ABC News Loop is coming to your favourite social media platform in the new year to deliver Australia’s best and most trusted journalism directly into your feed.
Announced today at the 2026 ABC Showcase, ABC News Loop will add depth to the scroll with world-class, made-for-social explainer journalism that informs, entertains and engages.
A few key stats:
· Around one in two Australians use social media to access news*
· One in four Australians say social media is their main source of news*
· Social media is now the second most popular main source of news after TV*
· ABC News has 1.2 million followers on TikTok, 1.3 million on Instagram, 4.8 million on Facebook and 4.7 million subscribers across the ABC News and ABC News In-depth channels on YouTube
*Source: Digital News Report: Australia 2025
ABC Director, News Justin Stevens:
“A huge number of Australians of all ages access news and information on social media platforms. But these platforms are rife with opinion, misinformation and disinformation.
“ABC News Loop will play a proactive role bringing social audiences fact-based and dynamic news explainers – unpacking and explaining the news, not telling people what to think.”
Some of the core ABC News Loop team members are already familiar faces and others soon will be: team lead Chloe Christie, Amal Wehbe, Grace McKinnon, Lia Walsh (winner of the Walkley Foundation 2025 Mid-Year Media Prize for Innovative Storytelling for her social media reporting on the US election), Angelique Lu, Luke Radford and Nicholas Maher.
Breaking down the big stories of the day will be regular contributors including Chief Elections & Data Analyst Casey Briggs, federal politics reporter Claudia Long, multiplatform contributor Lillian Rangiah, economics reporter Tom Crowley, sport reporter Marnie Vinall and journalist, digital producer and presenter Kenith Png.
ABC News social accounts will also continue to draw on the full range of talent and deep experience across all ABC News teams, including our foreign correspondents, investigative reporters, specialist reporters and experts in politics, business, global affairs, Indigenous affairs and many other areas.
ABC News Loop launches in January 2026.
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ABC Upfronts 2026 | Coming to your feed: ABC News Loop
