{"id":918341,"date":"2026-10-06T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/918341\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:00:18","slug":"richard-morecroft-veteran-abc-news-presenter-dies-age-70-after-cancer-diagnosis-australian-broadcasting-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/918341\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Morecroft, veteran ABC news presenter, dies age 70 after cancer diagnosis | Australian Broadcasting Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former ABC news presenter Richard Morecroft has died at the age of 70.<\/p>\n

Morecroft presented ABC\u2019s 7pm news bulletin for almost 20 years until 2002.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson released a statement saying that he had died at a time of his choosing on the south coast of New South Wales.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year and was grateful to go peacefully, with his partner of 36 years, Alison Mackay, beside him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are devastated to lose such a warm, generous and caring human and hope that all those who knew him, if only through their TV screens, will remember him fondly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fellow ABC journalist Michael Rowland paid tribute to Morecroft on social media saying: \u201cRichard was a superb newsreader and a lovely man.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leigh Sales said Morecroft was \u201ca kind, warm and generous colleague, as well as being a consummate professional. I had so much admiration and regard for him and I consider myself a lucky person indeed to have been his friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morecroft was born in 1956 and migrated from England to Adelaide with his family at the age of 10.<\/p>\n

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After graduating from the University of Adelaide he began work as an announcer with the ABC and later presented the nightly television news bulletins in Adelaide, Canberra and Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former ABC news presenter Richard Morecroft has died at the age of 70. Morecroft presented ABC\u2019s 7pm news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-918341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}