‘Fighting with one arm tied behind our back’: Peter Zavecz on his time with Pac Mags

As Pacific Magazines CEO Peter Zavecz prepares to depart for a new role at News Corp, he sat down with Mumbrella to discuss his three years leading the company in what turned out to be its most tumultuous and transformative period.

Peter Zavecz was made director of magazines in November 2013 following then Pacific Magazines CEO Nick Chan’s promotion to chief operating office at Seven West Media, with Zavecz finally given the CEO title when Chan departed the business entirely a year later.

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The last few years have not been easy for the magazine space – magazine closures, declining advertising revenue, declining print circulation.

But Zavecz has remained typically chipper throughout, and even in his final days as a proper magazine man remains its staunch defender.

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