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:
Garry is uniquely suited to this role. A Walkley award winner, Garry began his career with The Age thirty years ago, has edited a daily newspaper, a weekly magazine, run a national television news and current affairs division and, since returning to Fairfax last year as National Editor, has been running and restructuring many of our new verticals.
Garry has a deep understanding of the core Fairfax principle of editorial independence. At the same time, he has been away from Fairfax for a period and is able to bring a fresh perspective and, most importantly, act as an effective driver of change as we move to a new editorial model.
Linnell joined Fairfax as Metro Media’s national editor in October last year, and was quickly handed more responsibility following a restructure that saw the editors of Good Weekend and Sunday Life report into Linnell.
Linnell was profiled in the February edition of Encore magazine.
Can Garry get the Fairfax share price back up?
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He’d get a job in a New York police drama with that photo.
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Newspaper man.
It’s like putting a scribe monk in charge of a printing press.
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@Shane LOL!
or an awesome boot camp drill officer “YES STAFF SERGEANT!!!”
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