Brett Clegg departs Fairfax
Clegg: Out
Brett Clegg, boss of Fairfax Media’s business group, has left the company after just two years.
Clegg originally joined the company last year as chief executive of the Financial Review Group, which covers titles including the Australian Financial Review and BRW. Earlier this year, Fairfax restructured with a business media operation also covering the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Clegg has been replaced by Sean Aylmer who is currently editor-in-chief of the Sydney Morning Herald and is a former editor of BRW.
I suspect we will see some very bad results in the profit statement next month. Fin has been looking very sick indeed and you just don’t see it in the business community any more.
A respected individual – well done Sean. Who will get Editor position of Sydney Morning Herald?
Who is Allen Williams?
Is that seriously their statement? Talk about burying the lead…trying to spin Aylmers appointment ahead of Cleggs departure… Weak effort Fairfax corporate affairs.
Scalp by Bain. Did William Allen know who Brett Clegg actually was?
BC back to news? I’d say so.
What’s the bet Clegg will show up at News Ltd yet again. Typical Gen Y cusper = zero loyalty. Clegg only cares about money, not that he did a great job of getting the FIN to be more successful commercially.
Well Clegg has come and gone three times now – hopefully Fairfax has seen the back of him forever. He was a good news breaker as a reporter because he had industry contacts – but he had a very limited understanding of how newspapers work. I suspect Greg Hywood has learned this the hard way.
Maybe they should just shut Fairfax down today. What a splendid job the current crop of managers are doing. They jump between mastheads every few months like it’s some plaything. My suggestion: make Glenn Burge editor of SMH (he’s always wanted it and it needs a hard head to see it through the tough times). Fairfax needs to remember there are still mum and dad shareholders in this business, not just Gina. Speaking of which, show me the manual where it says talking down your own business (i.e Hywood suggesting there will be no newspapers in five years) is a good idea.
This is what happens when you put an old rural press guy from New Zealand in charge. All reports say the place is paralyzed and he has zero respect. Thought we were heading into a digital new age for Fairfax. Bad moves.
Heaven help News Corps regionals if Clegg gets the job. He’s not a true newspaper man – he’s a one time accountant. Talk about lack of commitment. He flips and flops between jobs and he’s not even 40. And they just keep inflating his ego by making out he’s some sort of wunderkind. Fail, fail, fail from where I sit.