Rupert Murdoch praised his contributions as News Corporation's longest serving editor worldwide.
[1] In 2016, a book of Mitchell's memoirs entitled Making Headlines was published by Melbourne University Press.
[3] Speaking at its launch, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull described the book as containing "a crisp plain English account of the dynamics of politics and the media in Australia".
[2] In 1996, the newspaper Mitchell edited at the time, The Courier-Mail, claimed that the prominent Australian historian Manning Clark had been awarded the Order of Lenin.
[8] In 2017, Mitchell wrote an opinion piece entitled "Climate hysteria hits 'peak stupid' in hurricane season".