TV Week editor Thomas Woodgate departs
TV Week’s editor Thomas Woodgate is departing the magazine, saying it’s time for him to sign off.
The departure – after what he calculated as six years, 339 print issues and 35,000 pages of TV content – comes as the magazine’s flagship event, the TV Week Logie Awards, is on hold for 2020, and as the magazine’s publisher, Bauer Media, makes deep cuts to staff in the wake of COVID-19.
The TV Week Logie Awards, which reward TV personalities, production crews and networks based on both merit and popularity, had been scheduled to take place on 28 June with a simplified voting method.
In the wake of COVID-19 travel and event restrictions, the magazine then looked at putting on the event “in some form” but conceded it would “not proceed as planned”.
Woodgate is just ONE of hundreds of people at Bauer and the former Pacific Magazines who are now redundant in the wake of Channel 7 trying to write down its extreme debts, and Bauer trying to whittle down the combined business in preparation to exit the country.
Every one of those redundant people who have been thrown under the bus by greedy and incompetent corporate bigwigs is deserving of this kind of attention. These are the ordinary victims of corporate greed and gross corporate incompetence. Two once great Australian publishing companies ruined – great job guys.
Total PR spin this development …. He jumped off (or was pushed off) a sinking ship. It’s been a desperately sad week for people working in magazines.