The Australian’s media editor Darren Davidson to depart to head up Storyful
Darren Davidson, currently the media editor for News Corp’s national broadsheet The Australian, is moving to New York to be editor-in-chief of Storyful – the social media newswire and intelligence service acquired by the Murdoch empire in 2013.
Davidson became the media section’s seventh editor in seven years in 2015 after joining the paper in 2011. Prior to his time at News Corp, Davidson was editor of AdNews.
The mouthpiece gets a leg up from his master. Kaching!
Next: Joe Aston cfo of fairfax?
Not often you see a jump from in house PR back into journalism and content. Well rewarded.
I wonder who will be annointed to press send on what Lachlan wants to say now? Plumb job.
Proof you can fall upwards
he has gone social………..
“Storyful is a social media intelligence agency that sources and verifies insights for media, communications and brand partners by analyzing digital content.”
Digital, social…………Is he in the right job?