James Thomson to edit BRW; Joanne Gray to edit Boss
The new publisher of BRW Amanda Gome is to be reunited with former Private Media colleague James Thomson after he was appointed the magazine’s new editor. Meanwhile, the Australian Financial Review’s Boss magazine is to have a new editor and deputy editor.
Gome was ousted as CEO of Private Media, which publishes titles including SmartCompany and Crikey, in September. She was quickly hired as publisher inside Fairfax Media’s Financial Review Group.
Thomson is one of the first major hirings since Gome came on board. He will take the reins from BRW editor Kate Mills, who will stay with the company in a yet-to-be-announced role.
Meanwhile, the Australian Financial Review’s Boss magazine is to have a new editor and deputy editor.
Kate Mills was doing an outstanding job. This is pathetic.
nothing on Narelle? she’s done a great job and should be acknowledged.
Narelle Hooper and Catherine Fox have taken redundancy of their own volition.
Fairfax is a bloody disgrace, and I doubt whether management actually knows what it is doing. They have shafted most of their newsroom who have taken expensive voluntary and forced redundancies only to go on expensive hiring sprees in other publishing houses…Fairfax’s digital strategy has been an epic fail and the appointment of Gome, Frost and Thomson based on their “extensive digital media knowledge” is laughable. My three year old child has more digital media knowledge than anyone at Fairfax, including the latest hires.
Boss would have to be the most boring, dull, mundane magazine ever. It desperately needs a makeover.
Madeleine. I think you might not be interested in business management
James will be a great asset to BRW.