Margaret Simons on Media

Even Journalists Can Be Respectable – Gerard Noonan on the Fairfax Board

October 28, 2009 – 2:10 pm, by Margaret Simons
   

Would be Fairfax Board member and former Australian Financial Review editor Gerard Noonan has written an elegant piece for Inside Story on why he is attempting mission impossible in seeking election.

He opens with an amusing Conrad Black anecdote, and has the nice line:

Unlike what Conrad Black thought, I’m not simply a campaigning journalist out to get scalps. Even an experienced journalist like me can look, and even be, respectable.

Worth reading in full.

* Declaration: Inside Story is published at the Institute of Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, where I am employed part time. The ISR is also the home of the Foundation for Public Interest Journalism, of which I am the Chair.

Comments (3) | Permalink

3 Comments

  1. 1
    antonio
    Posted October 28, 2009 at 4:12 pm | Permalink

    And BHP needs an explosives engineer on its board?

  2. 2
    Michael Dobbie
    Posted October 29, 2009 at 4:32 pm | Permalink

    Funny you should mention BHP Billiton in this context. BHP has 15 directors – 8 of them have considerable recent experience in the resources sector.

    Fairfax Media operates in an industry undergoing massive structural change that is destroying other media groups around the world. So, how many of the current Fairfax Media directors have considerable recent media experience? Answer – Zero. What about five years ago? Zero. Ten years ago? Zero.

  3. 3
    antonio
    Posted October 30, 2009 at 2:23 pm | Permalink

    And you’d be the PR for the MEAA?

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