Labor Herald launch editor Alex Brooks departs four months after the site goes live

Brooks departs Labor Herald four months after the site went live

The editor of the Australian Labor Party’s “Crikey-style” news website the Labor Herald has jumped ship only four months into its operation.

Alex Brooks, who was previously the editor-in-chief of NewsLifeMedia’s Kidspot.com.au for five and a half years, departed the political party’s content hub last month, joining online market research provider Pureprofile as head of content from this week.

“Labor Herald was a great project to get off the ground, but the opportunities at Pureprofile were too exciting not to be a part of,” Brooks told Mumbrella. “Pureprofile founder Paul Chan is a visionary building a tech-media platform that will transform how we engage online,”