Darren Goodsir made editor-in-chief of Sydney Morning Herald with brief to push independence
Darren Goodsir
Fairfax Media has named Darren Goodsir as the new editor-in-chief of the Sydney Morning Herald, with the announcement stressing his credentials to maintain the newspaper’s independence.
He replaces Sean Aylmer, who spent a year in the role before being appointed to run Fairfax Media’s business group after the sudden return of Brett Clegg to News Corp.
Goodsir is a former editor of the Herald’s website smh.com.au. Most recently he was the masthead’s news director.
Good luck to him. For all our sakes let’s hope he does well….
Both great choices – Darren and Sean have good chops across print and digital, an eye for the craft and work well with others. IMHO all criteria for success in today’s newsroom.
Great choice for Editor. Darren has always had a good nose for news and is also an all around nice guy.
I love the SMH and hope both he and Sean can help the newspaper survive.
I have recently had the pleasure to work with both of these fine journalists – who are both re writing the rule book on how a news room needs to operate in a ad cash strapped future. FFX editorial is in bloody good hands……across print, online and MOBILE.