From the August 27 edition of the Off The Bench radio show, host Craig Hutchison listed his top 15 reporters ranked on their skills with a piece to camera.
1 Jim Wilson (Seven)
2 Michael Usher (Nine, Seven – “Could turn a piece to camera into an entire bulletin”)
3 Peter Harvey (Nine)
4 Harry Potter (Ten)
5 Naomi Robson (Seven – “For the famous lizard on the shoulder”)
6 Martin “Marty” Di Stasio (Tiriel Mora in Frontline)
7 Brooke Vandenberg (Jane Kennedy in Frontline)
8 Norm Beaman (Ten, Seven)
9 Michael Roberts (Nine)
10 Hugh Riminton (Nine, Ten)
11 Chris Reason (Seven)
12 Leith Mulligan (Seven – “Spent more time on his piece to camera than anyone in history of television”)
13 Paul Marshall (Seven)
14 Allan Raskall (SBS, Nine)
15 Christine Spiteri (Nine – “She travelled with a gas powered hair dryer on the road”)
