News Limited Queensland’s Fagan and Crutcher ‘set for axe’

Tim Burrowes

June 11, 2013 10:43

News Limited’s senior Queensland management is set for a shakeup, today’s Australian Financial Review reports.

According to the AFR’s Rear Window column, Queensland editorial director David Fagan and Courier-Mail editor Michael Crutcher “will be shot any day now”.

The speculation follows last week’s visit to Australia of News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch.

News Limited declined to comment.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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1 COMMENTS

Anonymous 11 Jun 13

News Queensland will be in morn if David Fagan is sacked from his seat as State Editorial Director, as he has been an inspirationald and true leader to this state. It will be a dark day for Qld if some of the existing editors are appointment from either the Gold Coast or Victoria, as none of them has proved to be transformational leaders who can hold good ,reputable positions that will be required to represent Qld. We truly hope that this is just a silly rumour and that Rupert Murdoch is not influenced by some business consultants who don’t know and understand the complexities of this business.

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