Former SMH and M&C Saatchi staffers appointed to bolster UNSW comms team

July 20, 2017 9:16

The former editor-in-chief of The Sydney Morning Herald, Darren Goodsir, has joined the UNSW external relationships team along with former M&C Saatchi group operations director Amir Mireskandari.

The University of New South Wales made the appointments to bolster its calibre of academic and professional staff with a spokesperson saying the new staffers will bring a new breadth and depth of experience to the university’s External Relations team

At his time at The SMH Goodsir was a the deputy editor for 10 months before moving to the online editor for eight months. Following that he was the paper’s news director before taking role of editor-in-chief for almost four years.

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Abigail Dawson

Abigail Dawson was Mumbrella's senior content journalist covering event content. She left Mumbrella to move into an agency role in 2020.

Topics

Amir Mireskandari Darren Goodsir Fiona Docherty Laurie Pearcy M&C Saatchi Sydney Morning Herald

3 COMMENTS

The Facts 20 Jul 17

Wow, it’d be a slight change pace of going from the editor-in-chief of the most-read newspaper in the country to a university comms team, you’d think.

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wow 20 Jul 17

Amir, in a suit. Hell hath frozen over.

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Nano 24 Jul 17

Indeed. The black t-shirts consigned to the weekend coffee trip

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