Career
Crittenden began his radio career as a schoolboy, broadcasting with Sydney"s classical FM community radio station 2MBS-FM. After working as a policy officer in the NSW Cabinet Office (1986-1988), he joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1989 as a reporter for American Broadcasting Company Radio Current Affairs. In 1995-1996 he was the national arts correspondent for the 7.30 Report, and he later went on to be one of the presenters of Express, a weekly magazine arts program based in Melbourne. In 1999 he was appointed as Executive Producer of American Broadcasting Company Radio"s Religion department, a post he held until the beginning of 2002 when he returned to a full-time on air role as host of The Religion Report.
In October 2008 Crittenden was suspended from the American Broadcasting Company on full pay after he announced at the start of the Religion Report that the American Broadcasting Company had decommissioned The Ark, In Conversation, Media Report, Perspective, Radio Eye, Sports Factor, Short Story, Street Stories and well as the Religion Report, saying, "The decision to axe one of this network"s most distinctive and important programs has been approved by the director of American Broadcasting Company Radio, Sue Howard, and it will condemn Radio National to even greater irrelevance.
The American Broadcasting Company"s specialist units have been under attack for years, but the decapitation of the flagship program of the religion department effectively spells the death of religion at the American Broadcasting Company."
After 3 months, Crittenden returned to the American Broadcasting Company as a reporter on Background Briefing. Currently he is working as a reporter for Radio National"s current affairs program Background Briefing.
He has previously interviewed theologian Hans Küng about the pontificate of John Paul World War II
