Fairfax Media names Chris Janz as MD of metro publishing division
Fairfax Media has appointed Chris Janz as managing director of its Australian metro publishing division, responsible for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review.
Chris Janz named MD of Fairfax’s Australian metro publishing division
Janz replaces Allen Williams, having joined Fairfax Media from its joint-venture partner The Huffington Post in August.
Janz joined HuffPost Australia in March 2015 and before that was the founding CEO at Allure Media, a digital publisher responsible for Business Insider, Gizmodo, Lifehacker and PopSugar, which was bought by Fairfax in December 2012 to be part of the company’s Digital Ventures division.
this is a seismic shift for FXJ – absolutely huge.
Awesome achievement Chris!
Good to see someone with a knowledge of digital actually running a digital business
SMH is already as good as HuffPost…
Well done Janzy!
BIg News, Big shift (for Fairfax) , good Move. Congrats Chris
Congrats from your extended family here in Brisbane!
The real story here is that the metro news media is gutted of virtually all its value. Clearly the plan has been to shrink back to a clickbait traffic funnel for whatever ad revenue could be sustained. Now suddenly Hywood has both escalated the junk news trend and oddly reversed gears on the print shutdown.
At the same time Catalans seems to be campaigning for Hywoods job.
I’m wondering whether Hywood has belatedly woken up to the fact that Fairfax revenues remain heavily dependent on the print products he has so aggressively gutted.
He has been talking transition for six years. It’s looking like a ride off a cliff.
Reporter. The real story is the massive demotion for Andrew McEvoy just buried in Hywood’s message. Now back to “focus” on events with another one of McEvoys big appointments made redundant.