Brad Hatch steps up as corporate voice of Fairfax Media

Tim Burrowes

April 5, 2012 10:08

Fairfax Media has installed a new manager of corporate communications after doing without one for more than three years.

Australian Financial Review journalist Brad Hatch, a former lawyer, quietly moved into the role in recent weeks.

Hatch is not a direct replacement for the company’s corporate affairs chief Bruce Wolpe, who returned to his native US to become a congressional adviser in early 2009.

Wolpe, who had been the voice of Fairfax Media for a decade, has since returned to Australia where he is now an adviser within Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s office.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.