Peter Fray joins The Australian
Former editor-in-chief of Politifact Australia, Peter Fray is to join News Corp Australia’s national broadsheet The Australian as deputy editor (news).
Fray’s appointment comes just two months after he announced the closure of, political fact checking website, Politifact Australia which had struggled to secure funding outside of the election period.
He is also a former editor-in-chief and publisher of The Sydney Morning Herald who departed Fairfax Media in June 2012 amid mass redundancies across the publisher.
News of Fray’s appointment comes in a week of major changes at The Australian which on Tuesday lost its media editor Nick Leys, who is moving the ABC as head of corporate communications. Leys is to be replaced by former Cleo editor Sharri Markson.
Fray replaces David King who last month was appointed domestic editor of SBS world news.
An interesting appointment for a good operator.
Fairfax has gone down hill since his departure. It would be good if he could lift The Australian.
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Wow! A solid score by The Australian, but ONLY if they respect Fray’s independence and not nudge him towards becoming another right-wing Murdoch mouthpiece.
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Interesting that Fray quit as a director of the Australian Science Media Centre in 2013, after five years. Imagine it might not have gone down well with the climate change deniers.
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Congratulations Peter.
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Good luck staying on the straight and narrow Peter. We’ll be watching to see whether your integrity as a journalism can survive the Murdoch Reich-wing agenda.
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Congrats Peter!
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