Mumbrella Question Time at Magazine Week this Friday
Mumbrella will stage a question time session at this week’s Publishers Australia magazine conference.
Panellists include NewsLifeMedia boss Nicole Sheffield who will also present the opening keynote of the second day of the Magazine Week conference and Michelle Katz, media director of FMCG giant Unilever.
Also on the panel are Publishers Australia chairman and Westwick-Farrow Media boss Geoff Hird and James Hier, chief strategy officer at media agency MEC Global.
The Friday morning session will be moderated by Mumbrella editor Tim Burrowes.
Magazine Week kicks off at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney on Thursday with a keynote address from Matt Stanton who chairs Magazine Publishers of Australia and is CEO of ACP Magazines, which is about to rebadge as Bauer Media. It will then be followed by a discussion on the state of the industry featuring Pacific Magazines boss Nick Chan, Haymarket Media boss Jeremy Vaughan and great Southern Press CEO Zelda Tupicoff.
The second session of the opening day features a discussion on magazine tablet apps moderated by Time Out’s Michael Rodrigues and also featuring Mumbrella’s Burrowes, Brad Gurrie from CommStrat, FourFourTwo magazine publisher Andy Jackson and Emma Cornwell, head of pubishign at NRMA.
The afternoon session includes three streams examining new digital platforms, data analysis and social media.The social media session is moderated by Brooke Hemphill, managing editor of Mumbrella’s sister Encore.
Magazine Week culminates in the Magazine Excellence Awards on Friday night.
Further details of the conference are available via this link.