Ex-Daily Telegraph editor Garry Linnell resurfaces at Fairfax
Garry Linnell, who stepped down as editor of the Daily Telegraph after three years in the role in April, has resurfaced at Fairfax, where he began his career.
Linnell takes on the role of national editor of Fairfax’s Metro Media division, which comprises Sydney and Melbourne newspapers and magazines, community publications, print and online classifieds.
He will report to Jack Matthews, Metro Media’s CEO.
“I’m very excited to be rejoining Fairfax where I started my journalism career back in 1982. While media companies have challenges, I think Fairfax with its foundation of independent quality journalism is well placed to prosper,” Linnell said.
Given they are still there, no doubt auto-play video adds will still be playing all over fairfax online publications in September when he starts!
Why are they hiring more top tier editors when they’ve sacked dozens of sub editors in the past month? And especially when the mood inside the newsrooms right now is at an all time low.
I don’t know Gary at all and know no-one in the news industry so have no vested interest.
But gary looks a little mean in that pic
Heh. Tabloid editors aren’t renown as having a delicate demeanour.
He will be able to help them shrink the SMH into a crappy tabloid.
He will be able to help them copy what has already been done in the UK by News and others.
It actually breathed some (temporary) life in to circulation as readers didn’t have to wrestle a broadsheet to read it.
On delicate demeanours, AdGrunt you’ve obviously never met the current editor of the SMH. Anything but delicate.
Linnell was a gem when he ran the Sunday Age and it looks like he is already having an influence. Jack and Vanniekerk were spotted in the Age cafe talking ernestly to Linnell’s former US columnist Terrific writer and a great hire, if that’s what they were talking about. Not your typical Age death-from-boredom type at all.