October 13, 2009 – 2:59 pm
Well, the predictable has happened. Roger Corbett is the new chairman of Fairfax. No surprises there, and most of what could be said about him has already been said.
For a summary on the conventional wisdom on the situation, see this this piece by John Durie on The Australian website reprising what everyone has been writing [...]
March 12, 2009 – 12:44 pm
More in the Crikey email about the News Limited features restructure today, with editorial director Campbell Reid having granted me a not very informative interview, that nevertheless contains some significant denials.
But in the meantime, Fairfax is about to go through an upheavel, with CEO Brian McCarthy expected to make an announcement today or tomorrow about [...]
The restructure of business reporting at Fairfax has been announced. I’ve written a story about it for the Crikey e-mail today. In the meantime, below are the memos that were sent to staff announcing the change, and new roles for former Age Business editor Michael Short and Deputy Editor Steve Foley.
Subject: Melbourne announcements
Date: Wed, 4 [...]
At risk of annoying those who don’t like reading here about things that are appearing in Crikey, there will be a story there today updating the reports I posted here yesterday about recent happenings around the restructure of business coverage at Fairfax.
The conclusion: the charitable view is that Fairfax has a communications problem, both internally [...]
Following my previous post about Michael Short leaving as Age business editor, I understand that some kind of merger between The Age and Sydney Morning Herald business desks is on the cards and will be announced shortly – but I am told that it will be short of a full merger. Indeed it is hard [...]
The editor of The Age’s Business Section, Michael Short, has told his staff that he has been removed as Business editor.
The rumour at the paper is that this is a precursor to a merger of The Age and Sydney Morning Herald business desks, to be announced soon.
If the rumour is accutate it would seem that [...]
February 20, 2009 – 4:38 pm
Friend of mine just had the following call from The Age subscription department:
Just had a call from Daniel at The Age subscription department offering me (as an ex-subscriber) a special deal of $4 / week for all seven days delivery.THe weekend only special price is $4.50!
I told him that I had tried to [...]
February 9, 2009 – 4:21 pm
Rod Quinn, the newly appointed editor of the Canberra Times, addressed staff last Friday. I hear he gave a relatively low-key and modest address that went down well with staff.
Quinn, formerly editor of the Newcastle Herald, talked about his love for Newcastle, but said he wanted to be part of the Canberra community, and was [...]
February 6, 2009 – 1:57 pm
Here’s an interesting insight into the Fairfax Media group’s strategy at a time when the news for media, and Fairfax in particular, is not good.
The key words have to be: “its not so much a newspaper strategy as a digital strategy”.
Some Fairfax shareholders have drawn Crikey’s attention to an announcement last October that Fairfax had [...]
February 4, 2009 – 4:08 pm
Former Age editor Andrew Jaspan returned to the public eye this morning on Jon Faine’s program on ABC 774 Melbourne. There was a lot of wittering on, but also some interesting facts. For example, Jaspan quoted the cost of producing The Age as being about $50 million – a figure that to my knowledge has [...]
