Family, comfy shoes and cinnamon buns: What Sarah Abo can’t live without

Welcome to Quick Q – Monday Media’s weekly Q&A series dedicated to finding out more about the personalities that matter most in the Australian media landscape.

Every week The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age asks key figures across corporate media, business, sport, federal politics, radio, television and culture to answer a series of questions about their lives, careers, hobbies and news habits.

This week’s conversation is with 60 Minutes reporter Sarah Abo.

How did you get your big break?
I was doing work experience in the Channel 10 newsroom in Melbourne while at uni, when a job as a production assistant came up.

What are daily news media habits?
I check the papers online first thing in the morning – I like to read the digital version of the hard copy.

Which living person do you most admire?
That’s a hard one, I can’t name a single person! My parents.

Your guilty streaming pleasure?
My work schedule has been a bit manic, so I’m not very up to date with streaming at the moment. The last binge I had was Ozark, I still need to watch the final season!

Which phrase do you overuse?
(Can I swear?).

What did you want to do when you grew up?
I always wanted to be a creative, and I’ve always been interested in people – there are so many stories to tell. So long-form current affairs allows me to find visually creative ways of bringing people’s stories to the public. Pretty cool!