Finance presenter Alan Kohler to sign off from ABC for final time

Key points

• Finance presenter Alan Kohler will end his 31-year career at the ABC tonight after presenting his final finance report from the Melbourne studios. Kohler, 74, said it was time to stop going to the studio.
• He began as a cadet and later reached the editorship of the Australian Financial Review by the age of 32. Kohler says he will keep working in journalism, now mainly from home.
• He remains optimistic about the field, arguing that human work will become more valuable as artificial intelligence takes over routine tasks.