Karina Carvalho: Another ABC star walks out on the public broadcaster after 17 years with insiders lifting the lid on why she was fed up

One of ABC's best-known newsreaders is set to leave the public broadcaster after 17 years and join an exodus of high-profile layoffs.

Karina Carvalho, who works for ABC's 24-hour TV news channel in Sydney, has become disillusioned with many aspects of ABC culture, sources claim, and will sign off for the final time on Wednesday.

She has become concerned about the ABC's editorial direction and the fact that some fellow journalists have become 'activists', rather than being neutral in their reporting. Australian reported.

Former 7.30 presenter Leigh Sales has repeatedly condemned activist journalism, saying in October that 'too often, too many journalists, across all media organisations, abandon the values ​​espoused by people like Andrew Olle, for a variety of reasons.

“One is that some reporters prefer to be activists and crusaders rather than fact-finders or outright reporters,” she told the audience at the Andrew Olle Lecture audience.

Carvalho (pictured), who works with the broadcaster's 24-hour TV news channel in Sydney, has reportedly become disillusioned with many aspects of ABC culture

Olle was an Australian radio and TV presenter who worked mainly for the ABC, whose work is honored in an annual lecture.

But in August, Sales herself was accused of activism when ABC distributed a step-by-step guide she had written on how to reject suggestions. The Uluru Statement from the Heart was not a 'one-page document'.

Carvalho, who was born in Sri Lanka and moved to Perth with her family at the age of 4, has worked for the ABC across Australia.

She presented the 7pm news in both Perth and Brisbane and co-hosted the ABC News Breakfast with Michael Rowland from Melbourne.

Despite perceived dissatisfaction with the broadcaster, she said: “The ABC will always have a special place in my heart, I have had the opportunity to meet and work with so many talented people.

“This is the right time to enter the next phase of my career and I'm excited to see what lies ahead. “I wish my colleagues at the ABC nothing but the best,” she told The Australian.

Commercial networks, where Carvalho (pictured) would likely make a lot more money, are said to be courting the outgoing star

Commercial networks, where Carvalho would likely make a lot more money, would court the outgoing star.

The end of her tenure at ABC comes just days after radio star Richard Kingsmill announced he was leaving the broadcaster after more than three decades.

It also follows the departures of Stan Grant, Tom Switzer, Mary Gearin, Stacey Lee and Josh Szeps.

Ny Breaking Australia has contacted Carvalho for comment. The ABC declined to comment.

Former 7.30 presenter Leigh Sales (pictured) has repeatedly criticized activist journalism