[4] Hitchcock started his media career as a junior researcher for Channel 7’s current affairs program, Today Tonight, in 1994.
[9] In 2017 he went to Mexico to confront a plastic surgeon whose negligence led to the death of several patients including an Australian woman.
[10] The same year, he flew to Colombia to report on the controversial arrest and imprisonment of Australian woman Cassandra Sainsbury, accused of being a cocaine drug mule.
[13] In 2020 the Sunday Night program was discontinued by the Seven Network[14][15][16][17] Hitchcock was retained to create hour long documentaries to fill the current affairs void left behind.
This is normally where people say they need to spend more time with their family, and that is certainly true, my girls are everything to me, but there’s other reasons..." before stating his intention to sail around the Pacific Islands.
[22] After purchasing a second hand yacht, he spent two years restoring it before sailing from Sydney to Lord Howe Island and Fiji in 2019.