Michael Stutchbury on 70 years of the Financial Review and why the premium subscription model works
With the Australian Financial Review celebrating 70 years this week, Mumbrella’s Zanda Wilson caught up with editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury to chat about the significance of the anniversary, and what’s next for the publication.
The Australian Financial Review (AFR) marks its 70th anniversary this week and is celebrating the occasion with a series of content initiatives, kicking off with a 12-page wraparound out today.
The special edition will commemorate the seven leaders to have shaped the growth of the Australian business world over the past seven decades, but as editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury says, the story of the publication goes far beyond what can be told in a retrospective.
“The Australian Financial Review for the past seven decades has played a unique role in Australian business, financial markets, politics, and really the nation, in charting the growth of the Australian economy and the growth of prosperity, of what is now quite a well off nation,” he tells Mumbrella.
