Fairfax Media’s Omri Godijn and Simon Smith depart publisher

Miranda Ward

November 22, 2016 12:07

Fairfax Media’s industry head for travel and tourism, Omri Godijn, has joined rival News Corp in a similar role, with Fairfax Media’s managing director of content marketing Simon Smith also departing the publishing company.

Omri Godijin jumps from Fairfax Media to News Corp

Godijn joined News Corp this month as industry specialist for travel and tourism with the role having him work with News Corp’s teams and senior marketers from News’ travel and tourism clients.

Godijn had been with Fairfax Media since February 2011, joining as client strategy manager before taking on the position of senior client strategy manager for travel in January 2013, as well as holding the role of national sales director – arts, entertainment, sport and drive.

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Miranda Ward

Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.

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4 COMMENTS

Dee Klein 22 Nov 16

Out of the frying pan and into the fire…

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Anonymous 23 Nov 16

Omri and Simon are great guys. Good luck!

https://staging.mumbrella.com.au/fairfax-boss-greg-hywood-going-get-content-marketing-business-188456

Interested to see where what’s left of Hywoods growth strategy goes now. How is one of the final remaining pieces – Fairfax’s much publicised events business performing?

Any update from Andrew McEvoy at the next mumbrella conference please?

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Karl 23 Nov 16

*SBS

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Lili 23 Nov 16

The rats leaving the sinking ship! ?

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