Garry Linnell promoted to editorial director at Fairfax
Former Daily Telegraph editor Garry Linnell has been promoted to editorial director of Fairfax’s Metro Media division less than a year after joining the company.
He will report to Fairfax Metro Media boss Jack Matthews.
Linnell is to spearhead the company’s Editorial Review Project and drive what Fairfax calls a ‘fully integrated newsroom’.
An excerpt from an all-staff email from Matthews obtained by Mumbrella reads:
Can Garry get the Fairfax share price back up?
He’d get a job in a New York police drama with that photo.
Newspaper man.
It’s like putting a scribe monk in charge of a printing press.
@Shane LOL!
or an awesome boot camp drill officer “YES STAFF SERGEANT!!!”