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Fairfax appoints Hywood as new CEO
Thursday, February 10 , 2011 | Author: Natalie Apostolou
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Fairfax Media has appointed Walkley Award winning journalist Greg Hywood as the CEO and MD of the company.
A non-executive director of the company, Hywood was appointed interim CEO after the resignation of Brian McCarthy late last year.
Hywood has held a raft of senior management positions at Fairfax including Publisher and Editor in Chief of The Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald/Sun Herald and The Age. He also held the position of Group Publisher Fairfax Magazines.
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Thursday, February 10, 2011 | Author: Natalie Apostolou
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The Publishers Australia Newsstand Leadership Group represents the Top 500 independent, Australian publishers selling in the newsstand. The group seeks to increase sales of Australian magazines by working with newsagents and has a wider remit to increase the sales and efficiency of supply of Australian publications.
The Newsstand Leadership Group is currently looking for three publishers to join, to replace members who have left. The Group is working on the next phase of the subscription trial in conjunction with the Australian Newsagents' Federation (ANF) and is about to launch the newsstand tool kit. You will need to be available to attend or call in to meetings 6 times a year.
If you are interested please contact Janice Williams, jwilliams@universalmagazines.com.au.
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Fast Thinking has an app for it |
 Fashionistas and publishistas alike are curiously awaiting the screening of Foxtel’s new locally produced reality offering Park Street. Meanwhile news has surfaced that the Seven Network is already in production with its foray into reality TV- fashion publishing style- with a stalkers view of life at Marie Claire with editor Jackie Frank.
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AOL swoops on HuffPo for US$315m
Thursday, February 10, 2011 | Author: Natalie Apostolou
AOL’s purchase of The Huffington Post for US$315 million may have filled independent online publishers with hope of dot com styled media valuations, but industry sentiment suggests the integration may be a hard sell. The sale came together in under a month following the collapse of 18 month talks with NBC which dissolved over price.
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Grazia Australia has launched the inaugural GRAZIA Shopping Awards 2011. Readers are invited to nominate their favourite stores across 11 award categories and will then also vote from a shortlist of finalists, at 
