8.30am - 12pm weekdays. Neil is one of Australia's most experienced journalists with success in newspapers, radio and television. He was one of the youngest editors of a daily metropolitan newspaper, The Herald.
Neil was also a reporter, columnist and news executive at The Age for 16 years, including four years as sports editor. He has also worked for Time Magazine, and presented documentaries and his own talkback TV program on both the Nine and Ten networks.
He began at 3AW on weekends and Drive in 1987. In 1990 he moved to the morning program where he has dominated the ratings ever since. A little bit about Neil Mitchell What was your first job? As a schoolboy I delivered morning newspapers, which proved two things: I love newspapers and hate getting up early.
Now, 40 years later, I find I have spent my life around newspapers and have been required to get out of bed at a ridiculous hour since 1984. What is your favourite on air moment thus far? A three year old boy called Tyler Fishlock was about to lose both eyes to cancer and we were trying to fulfill his last minute dreams. His mum was talking to me, crying softly.
In the background I heard the child say "Don't cry mummy, it will all be OK" What is your most embarrassing on air moment? The most embarrassing and instructive moment was at the very beginning when I was ranting on about some editorial point, thumping the desk and asking for calls… when a caller rang and said "…Neil.
Get your hand off it…" They were right, and I learnt from it. If you could interview anyone (living or dead) who would it be? Richard Nixon. The man was incorrigible and unashamed.
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Neil Mitchell - Podcasts
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Australia's new foreign minister explains why the Belt and Road deal was torn up
Apr 21, 2021 | 23:10 pmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Neil Mitchell reacts to the Belt and Road deal being torn up
Apr 21, 2021 | 22:53 pmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Why Andrew Denton keeps campaigning for euthanasia laws
Apr 21, 2021 | 02:48 amSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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3AW Mornings with Neil Mitchell, 21st April 2021
Apr 21, 2021 | 02:37 amSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Shane Warne talks The Tan, vaccines and soccer's 'Super League' with Neil Mitchell!
Apr 21, 2021 | 02:08 amSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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AFLW best and fairest says she is 'lucky' she came back to football
Apr 21, 2021 | 01:56 amSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Anzac Day march crowd cap to increase, minister confirms
Apr 21, 2021 | 01:00 amSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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There are calls to make Anzac Day 'more inclusive'
Apr 20, 2021 | 23:59 pmHistory lecturer Romain Fathi to Neil Mitchell the commemorations on April 25 needed to be re-invented with popularity on the decline, particularly among young people.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Greg Hunt responds to the Victorian government's vaccine announcement
Apr 20, 2021 | 22:54 pmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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New survey finds the age in which a person is considered old at work is getting younger
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