Nick Leys named new editor of The Australian’s media section
Nick Leys has become the first non-Sydney based section editor for The Australian after taking on the job of media editor vacated by Nick Tabakoff in December.
He will be the fourth editor of the section, which appears on a Monday in the main newspaper and online throughout the week, since 2009 when Jane Schulze quit to start up the Standard Media Index.
Since then Geoff Elliott, Stephen Brook and most recently Tabakoff, who announced in December he was moving to the Commonwealth Bank as executive manager of public affairs, have had the helm of the section.
Leys confirmed his appointment to Mumbrella and that he would be staying in Melbourne, but declined to reveal further details for the media section, including whether he will continue to write the Media Diary column which appears in the newspaper on Mondays.
He started his career as a cadet at The Sydney Morning Herald in 1999, had a stint as a fact checker at ABC’s Media Watch, before joining News Limited and The Australian in 2004 where he edited the Strewth column and was Sydney bureau chief. In 2008 he joined the Sunday Telegraph, then two years later moved to Melbourne with the Herald Sun.
Leys rejoined The Australian in 2011 as editor of the Media Diary section.
Does The Australian still publish Media? It used to be compulsory reading then along came mumBrella, TV Tonight and the rest of the Net and Media became positively passe like the rest of the print media. Why bother waiting a whole week to read what you saw on the Net days before?
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A decade ago the media section was excellent, but it has become very slanted to the Right in recent years and often just a News Limited PR section. It would be great in Leys could restore it to what it once was.
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