January 9, 2009 – 3:57 pm
A rumour made its way to me today that in the running for the job of editing the Canberra Times are Michael Millett, now deputy editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, and Gay Alcorn, now editing the Sunday Age.
I rang both of them. Alcorn says these suggestions are news to her. She is happy editing [...]
December 23, 2008 – 2:11 pm
Peter Fray, the new editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, is once again not answering his mobile phone, which saves us from another one of those conversations.
If he was talking, I would be asking the following questions. What is your understanding of your role? Whom do you answer to? How much of a free hand [...]
December 23, 2008 – 12:09 am
Following Alan Oakley around is getting to be a habit for Peter Fray, who is to be the new editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, replacing Alan Oakley who walked a few weeks ago.
Fray, 46, will start in his new job mid-January. Before editing the Canberra Times – a post he has held [...]
December 17, 2008 – 10:53 am
“We’re going to have another one of those conversations, aren’t we?” So said Canberra Times editor Peter Fray a few moments ago when I finally made contact to ask about the Sydney Morning Herald job. That’s right, he’s not saying anything. But in the nicest possible way…
December 17, 2008 – 10:34 am
As you would expect, the knives are out for Bruce Guthrie, former editor of the Herald-Sun, following his taking an unfair dismissal action against his former employer.
Matthew Ricketson has the story buried in today’s Age business section. Guthrie has claimed in his legal action that the man with whom he is meant to have clashed, [...]
December 17, 2008 – 10:23 am
Expect an announcement very soon now on the new editor of the Sydney Morning Herald. I understand that leading contenders Mark Baker of the Age and Peter Fray of the Canberra Times have both been interviewed in the last few days.
December 10, 2008 – 11:41 am
I was trying to contact the editor of the Canberra Times, Peter Fray, last week to quiz him about whether he was indeed a front runner for the editor’s job at the Sydney Morning Herald, and he wasn’t answering. This morning I finally got through.
It’s a strange job interviewing another journalist. They know what you [...]
December 5, 2008 – 2:05 pm
Before the wider Fairfax meltdown story broke this morning I was trying to find out who might replace Alan Oakley as Sydney Morning Herald editor.
Now it seems unlikely that anybody at Fairfax is applying serious thought to such things. IN fact the bigger question might be whether they will be able to persuade anyone to [...]
December 5, 2008 – 9:49 am
Nothing certain yet on who will replace Alan Oakley as editor at the Sydney Morning Herald, but the rumour mill at the Canberra Times this morning has their recently appointed editor firming as a front runner – and other sources inside Fairfax say that he has been approached.
Which doesn’t necessarily mean anything. Many are called, [...]
December 4, 2008 – 8:31 pm
What a rotten time to be an editor of a newspaper. This afternoon Sydney Morning Herald editor Alan Oakley either stepped down or was sacked, depending on who you listen to.
More on the implications of that later, but step back a moment and think about all the editors whose heads have rolled in the last [...]
