Fairfax Magazines appoints Sport & Style magazine editor
Fairfax Magazines has appointed Ben McKelvey editor of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald’s Sport & Style magazine three months after the controversial departure of Nik Howe from the role.
McKelvey has most recently worked as a freelance writer. Prior to that he was features editor at Ralph magazine and editor of Juice magazine.
Howe, the launch editor of Sport & Style, left the publisher in December to oversee his own branded content agency.
However at the time Lisa Hudson, Fairfax Magazines chief executive and publisher told Mumbrella: “He did not quit. He was fired for misconduct. He was dismissed.”
Howe, also a former Time Out editor, last week unveiled his latest project – online men’s magazine Buck. It is aimed at 25 to 45 year olds and targets fashion, lifestyle and entertainment advertisers.
Sport & Style launched in March last year and is published on the first Thursday of each month in The Sydney Morning Herald, and first Monday of each month in The Age.
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.
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It took Fairfax THREE months to find someone who used to work for Nik – didn’t Ben briefly work for him at Time Out?
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Congrats to Ben. A dynamic player with great ideas.
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Congrats Ben!! No doubt you will do a cracker of a job.
I hope you negotiated a suit allowance.
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