Things move fast and late at Fairfax when it comes to executive appointments, writes Margaret Simons.
Brian McCarthy
“I want to tell!’ ‘No I want to tell!’: Duelling memos at Fairfax
In Fairfax, there has been frank exchange of editors and memos, writes Andrew Dodd.
Fairfax stops the recruiting of editorial trainees
There is consternation among the troops and their middle level commanders at Fairfax this week over an edict from the boss of the company’s newspapers, Brian McCarthy, preventing the placing of advertisements recruiting editorial trainees for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.
Tips and rumours
In the light of the news re Fairfax and Southern Cross, one wonders whether John Laws had wind of this development and whether it played any part in his apparently hasty decision to retire. There is much to fear from Brian McCarthy who is rumoured to run the radio group following its acquisition by Fairfax — he […]
