The Australian names Darren Davidson as media editor replacing Sharri Markson
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Business media writer Darren Davidson has been appointed media editor of The Australian replacing Sharri Markson who moves to a senior writing role with the News Corp newspaper.
Markson, a former editor of Cleo, took on the role just under two years ago while Davidson, a former editor of AdNews, has been with the paper for four years.
He becomes the section’s seventh editor in seven years.
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Jake Mitchell has done well for himself. He’s writing about the media despite only being in it for five minutes.
Does the promotion come with an iPad included?
Good appointment
I hope he is good, the role needs someone intelligent.
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I used to love reading The Media section when it first came out, but over the past years and especially under the reign of Sharri Markson it’s gone from a must-read to a should-skim due to the endless anti-Fairfax anti-ABC diatribes while also shamelessly trumpeting all things NewsCorp. Once you skip over all of those, there’s honestly not much left that’s worth the read. I hope that Darren Davidson changes tack and gets Media back to being a section about the market and the industry, with actual insight and considered interviews, instead of a nationally-distributed NewsCorp rah-rah sheet.
I dropped the The Australian Media section like a hot brick some time back when Amanda Meade left. She’s now at The Guardian and doing a great job. Sharri Markson turned the column into a farce for the reasons outlined so well by Jack. BTW, thanks Mumbrella for the excellent work covering the spectrum of media, PR and marketing as well!
I really like this column – usually a good read.
Agree with Jack – I am not a fan of the anti-Fairfax in this column. Diversity is good in the press !
I reckon this would not be an easy job collating all that info on deadline and under pressure.
Lay off “Shazz”, she did OK.
Can you do a better job Jack, week by week?
Congrats Big D
Welcome to the gig, Darren. Let’s hope this marks an end to self-serving, attention-seeking, often ill-informed beat-ups and a change back to more of the excellent coverage that Meade specialised in and continues to serve up at the Guardian.
Jesus, what the fuck is The Australian thinking replacing a woman with a man?
He’s certainly earned it, doing Lachlan’s dirty work on the NRL broadcast rights.
As John said a well deserved promotion after hounding NRL boss David Smith out of a job
congrats Darren – great gig.