ACP’s Gerry Reynolds given greater control
Reynolds
ACP Magazine’s publishing director Gerry Reynolds has had his role expanded to include ACP’s local consumer magazines as well as custom publishing.
Reynolds will continue to report to Stanton, who is CEO for operations in Australia, Asia, New Zealand and Hong Kong.
The move brings a stronger editorial leadership to the company after the December departure of Phil Scott, a journalist by background, who was replaced by ACP’s former CFO Stanton.
Deck-chairs. Rearranged. Titanic.
Gerry Reynolds is a realist who has taken his share of hard knocks at ACP and somehow managed to retain a degree of journalistic respectability as the whole joint slips slowly beneath the waves. Indeed, he’s a good bloke in a place full of fear and loathing where the only reality is that the whole operation will sooner rather than later have the eyes picked out of it by Pacific and maybe News if it ever gets its mag act together. And the rest? Everyone else head to the lifeboats – if you can find one.
And now Peter Holder gets another three magazines on top of the six titles he already manages.Nice portfolio, including three weeklies. Peter no longer gets to sleep his usual lazy five hours every night!
Reynolds and Holder survived 1991 when the economy was heading south, they both got through and learned from that time. This experience should help them get the Yetti off ACP’s back so they can get on with magazine publising, trying to sell magazines.