Email Virus Warning
JIM MURPHY, Media Flash subscriber, passes on this urgent
warning from
Microsoft: There is a new virus - Wobbler.
It will arrive on an E-mail
titled 'California'. IBM and
AOL have announced that is very powerful,
more so than
Melissa, there is no remedy. It will eat all your
information
on the hard drive and also destroys Netscape
Navigator and Microsoft
Internet Explorer. Do not open
anything with this title and please pass
this message on
to all your contacts and anyone who uses your
E-Mail
facility. Not many people seem to know about this
yet so propagate it as
fast as possible.'
* 'If you
receive an E-Mail titled 'Win A Holiday' do not open it. It
will
erase everything on your hard drive. Forward this
letter to as many people
as you can. This is a new, very
malicious virus and not many people know
about it. This
information was announced yesterday morning
from
Microsoft.'
Global Editions For Fairfax Papers
*
FRED HILMER, Fairfax CEO, says The Sydney Morning Herald,
The Age and
The Australian Financial Review will now be
published at Press Point
on-demand centres across the
world. The Age starts today with a 32-page
A3-tabloid
global edition, available at hotels, retail
outlets,
bookstores, international airlines and
universities throughout North and
South America, Europe,
and some parts of Asia. Price is $US2.50 and £1.50.
STEVE
HARRIS, Age Publisher, says the edition will be available on
the day
of publication. Press Point is led by former New
York Times COO LANCE
PRIMIS. Papers are printed from PDF
files. Others in the network include
Financial Times
(UK), Guardian (UK), Washington Post National Weekly
(US),
Bloomberg News (US) and Handelsblatt (Germany).
B&T Resigns ABC Audit
* SAMANTHA TANNOUS, Editor of Ad
News published by JEREMY LIGHT for Yaffa
Publishing, has
made much of B&T Weekly's resignation from the ABC
audited
paid circulation list. B&T's circulation had
fallen to 5463 in the
December 1999 ABC figures, with Ad
News reporting 7970 circulation. A
'house ad' promotes
Yaffa's MICHELLE BECKLEY and MARIA GATOUDIS as the
people
to contact for media industry advertising.
* P.S.: For
media industry advertising, don't discount Media Flash.
With
6300 subscribers, we're now the industry's 'number
two' publication ...
and as they say, 'we try harder'.
Text Media Float: Oversubscribed?
* ERIC BEECHER, Chief
Executive of Text Media, appears likely to have led
a
highly successful public offering of shares, with the offer
scheduled to
close this Friday (August 25). Company
Secretary IAIN HORDEN'S
Supplementary Prospectus notes
total funds intended to be raised by the
offer are $21.25
million, less secondary sales of $17.25 million.
Gross
proceeds are $4 million, less expenses of $1.115
million. Net proceeds are
expected to total $2.885
million. Text Media officials are bound
under
Corporations Law, ASIC and ASX rules to keep a
silence during the IPO
period, and all are playing it
strictly by the book.
* J B WERE, underwriters, will be
entitled to an underwriting commission
of 3 per cent of
$21,250,000. They will also receive a management fee
of
0.75 per cent of $21,250,000; plus reasonable costs in
connection with the
offer. Lawyers BLAKE DAWSON WALDRON
are due for $140,000 for legal work on
the float.
Auditors/accountants PRICEWATERHOUSE COOPERS notch up
$176,000.
ARTHUR ANDERSEN'S Corporate Finance Division
will receive $408,000 for
financial advisory services in
relation to the float.
Web Media Group Launches
* ALEX
McKINNON, Managing Director of Web Media Group, is
launching
www.editforce.com.au - a network of
professional content people including
writers, editors,
proofreaders, covering a range of specialist areas
and
providing multi-media content and editorial
management to all forms of
media. PAUL PALYZA, on (02)
9219 9911, is seeking additional specialists
in all
subject areas for mew clients developing newspapers,
magazines and
Internet portals.
Tax Refund For Foxtel
* JUSTICE JOHN LEHANE says Foxtel's TV guide was
tax free because it was
neither a 'program of
entertainments or program of amusements'. FIONA
BUFFINI
of The AFR reported that Foxtel is entitled to a refund for
sales
tax paid on the acquisition of the magazine from
printers Wilke & Company.
The magazine, now led by Group
Publisher NICK CHAN and Publisher DIANA
O'NEIL, is now
published by ACP Magazines, as agent for the News
TV
Magazines - ACP Magazines partnership. The 144-page
mag, now edited by
MICHELLE BATEMAN, under ACP Customer
Publishing Editorial Director CHUCK
SMEATON, is printed
by Hannanprint. The September issue includes a
C7
Olympics insert, offering a $54.95 package until
August 31, to rise to
$76.95 after that date.
What Future For Bayside Southern Cross?
* BRIAN STAGMAN'S crew
at The Bayside Southern Cross (re-badged as a
Melbourne
Weekly licensed edition) include some who are again
speculating
on the future of the 24-page gloss-newprint
hybrid, with
32,000-circulation in the Beaumaris, Black
Rock, Brighton, Hampton and
Sandringham sand-belt
wealth-belt. The paper is headed by General Manager
SUSAN
McDERMOTT, Editor JANE KENRICK, Chief Sub-Editor CARLEY
OLLEY, Chief
Photographer DAMIEN HORAN and Ad Manager
MARIA STEVENSON. These same names
are in the skite box
for sister publication, Emerald Hill Times including
The
Melbourne Weekly. Bayside editorial is being filed by KATE
WILLIAMS,
with EHT words written by DHANA QUINN and JEWEL
TOPSFIELD, plus MANDI
ZONNEVELDT and PETER ANGELOPOULOS
who write for Melbourne Times.
Strong Independent Tradition of Pride
* PAUL THOMAS, Managing Director of
South East Newspapers, contacted Media
Flash after last
week's report on the expansion of Melbourne titles
by
NEIL COLLYER at Fairfax Community Newspapers, and
industry speculation on
any marketing moves that may be
made by SYLVIA BRADSHAW'S team at Leader
Newspapers. Paul
Thomas emphasises that his family have had a
proud
90-year tradition of independent publishing through
their Pakenham
Gazette, Berwick News and Cranbourne News
titles, and do not want them
regarded as speculative
chess pieces in the marketing battles of other
companies.
His company also produces the North-Western Real Estate
News
and South-Eastern Real Estate News, the latter now
being stitched and
trimmed. It has been printed at JOHN
B. FAIRFAX'S Capital Fine Print plant
in Canberra. The
company started in 1909 with ALBERT THOMAS starting
the
Berwick Shire News and Pakenham and Cranbourne
Gazette, after he'd
established the Violet Town Sentinel
(now in HELEN DONALDSON'S Euroa
Gazette), and taking over
the Southern Mail and Outtrim News at
Korrumburra
(Vic.).
North East Online Formed
* PHILIP NOLAN,
Managing Editor of North East Newspapers, has announced
a
new company, North East Internet Pty Ltd, 'formed by
local media and
investors to build and promote NorthEast
TODAY'. The site will have 'a
range of cyber stalls and
information booths', with sites for local towns
and
cities. Media include HARTLEY HIGGINS' newspapers including
The
Chronicle at Wangaratta, and WALTER MOTT'S 3NE and
EDGE FM radio stations.
'An advisory board, representing
local government, communities and
commerce interests will
be appointed and advise on content and
services.'
Community information meetings are
planned.
Queensland Quips
* PAUL SCOTT of Hot-FM writes:
"KARL STEFANOVIC of Channel 9 Brisbane,
newly recruited
from Channel 10, was seconded to read the Gold Coast
news
last week. His work was not un-noticed by talkback
callers. He was hired
as guest co-breakfast host for Sea
FM for three days this week on his days
off. Meanwhile,
his partner CASSANDRA THORBURN has moved from Ten to
Nine,
and is mixing weekend reporting with Assistant
Producer roles at
Queensland Extra."
* GAVIN LAUMAN and
ART CONNELL, Editor and Ad Manager respectively of
the
Pine Rivers Press, have added a new dimension to the
business excellence
awards being run through the News
Limited Suburban Newspapers network.
They have added a
Hall of Fame, in the Quest Newspapers
promotion,
inducting four businesses at this month's gala
night.
* KYLIE KNIGHT and LISA CRAWFORD are preparing an
Entertaining Caboolture
section in the Quest Newspapers -
Caboolture Shire Herald, with ads led by
Manager SHERYL
CHAMBERS.
West Australian Wire
* DAVID BIGNOLD, Group
Sales and Marketimg Manager of Perth's
Community
Newspaper Group, has announced a Suzuki Baleno
major prize in a raffle
sponsored by his company.
Proceeds for the raffle go to the Women and
Infants
Research Foundation. The newspapers also hold a
fund-raising
golf-a-thon for the organisation.
*
CHANNEL 31 PERTH is airing The Sensitive Future, a series
about the town
planning processes shaping Perth. It
features celebrated City planner PAUL
RITTER.
Melbourne Desk
* EDDIE McGUIRE, SAM NEWMAN and BRIAN
TAYLOR host Channel 9's annual footy
match - the E.J.
WHITTEN Legends Game - next week, on Tuesday, August
29.
Their Grand Final Edition airs on Thursday, August
31.
* CHERYL LONG (no relation) and NARDA CAIN have won
Alpine Shire full-page
advertising for their free
eight-page Ovens & Kiewa Valley Echo, produced
from
Bright (Vic.) and printed at The Yarrawonga Chronicle.
Long
previously had the Myrtleford-based Independent
Weekly.
* RUTH JONES has stepped down as CEO of the
Australian Film Institute for
a position at a
philanthropic organisation. DEB VERHOEVEN, head of
RMIT's
School of Media and Cinema Studies, takes
over.
This Week in Byron Bay
Police fear NYE riot; North
Rail to close off beach access; Bats favoured
in school
site decision; Plans for three wood fired power stations;
MUNGO
MacCALLUM considers O'Loughlin's judgement - all in
this week's ECHO,
Byron Shire's independent locally-owned
weekly with attitude. THE ECHO
hits the streets of Byron
Bay and the web at www.echo.net.au on Tuesdays.
National
advertisers are welcome to communicate with Australia's
most
sophisticated rural market. Email geoff@echo.net.au
or ring (02) 6684
1777. (Advt.)
Your ABA
* CHRIS
SZYMANSKI forwards this exchange from the Australian
Broadcasting
Authority's current hearing (from Wednesday)
for full-time radio licences
in Sydney:
* 'MS
VASSILIADIS: Mr Ramos, at page 15 of the evidence folder, if
you can
refer to it - -
* 'MR RAMOS: Yes.
* 'MS
VASSILIADIS: - - 2 Groove indicates that it represents a
community
commonly referred to as Generation X.
* 'MR RAMOS: Yes.
* 'MS VASSILIADIS: And the community consists
of the people who fall
within the age group of 25 to
40.
* 'MR RAMOS: Yes.
* 'MS VASSILIADIS: What has 2
Groove relied on to support its belief that
there exists
a generation called Generation X?
* 'MR RAMOS: Is that a serious question?
* 'MS VASSILIADIS: Yes.
* 'MR RAMOS: I
understand that we are not bound by the rules
of
evidence.
* 'MS VASSILIADIS: That is correct.
*
'MR RAMOS: One should never answer a question with a
question - but
experience, my own experience.
* 'MS
VASSILIADIS: So you're saying based on your own experience
you think
there's a Generation X. Is there anything that
you can point to that
suggfests that there is a
generation called Generation X? Where can I find
a book
that refers to Generation X or an article? Is there anything
like
that which you can point to?
* 'MR RAMOS:
Documents and articles are not necessarily direct evidence
of
the existence of such a generation. One might ask do
baby-boomers exist?
* 'MS VASSILIADIS: We are referring to Generation X in this instance.
* 'MR RAMOS: Marketing
information and research comparisons. If your
question is
that Generation X does not exist, my answer to that
question
would be that you need to get out more.'
Air Waves
* HOMER SIMPSON goes 24 hours a day on FOX-8 from
September 15, during the
Olympics.
* RENAE LEITH of The
Sunday Mail (SA) reports that NWS-9 is rumored to
be
producing a new show to match ADS-7's Discover. Nine's
Location Adelaide
attracted only 48,500 viewers last
year.
* JOHN PINCH, Clear Channel executive, is tipped as
new Australian Radio
Network boss. Clear Channel is a 50
per cent owner of the network.
* RADIO 3AK PTY LTD is a
new company that applied for registration as
a
proprietary company last week (Monday, August 14) with
the Australian
Securities and Investments Commission.
Fotr those about to perform a
company search: ACN 094 135
261. (Not to be confused with Radio 3AK
Holdings Pty Ltd,
ACN 077 454 730; or Radio 3AK Investors Pty Ltd, ACN
075
084 712).
Community Radio
* BRUCE and KAYE CARTY,
husband-and-wife managers of Radio Yesteryear
(Kariong,
Central Coast, NSW) have been granted a permanent licence
for
their community station, specialising in music from
the '30s to the 70s.
BOB STAINES' Central Coast Express
Advocate reports the call sign changes
from 104.5FM to
99.1FM.
* GREG ALLEN-PRETTY starts the evening shift
tonight (Monday) at 2CBA-FM
103.2. He tells Media Flash
that Program Director JOHN O'DONNELL already
has the
station sounding 'a lot more focussed'.
So, This Is Showbiz
* MORNA STURROCK, former Fleet Street journalist,
opened the Second
'Stitched Up' Festival at Wangaratta
(Vic.).
* VAL JELLAY was honored by MIKE MUNRO'S This Is
Your Life team on
Thursday night. Val's address, to order
her latest book, is 57 Page
Street, Albert Park, Vic.
3206.
Australian Media Job Directory
* SEE our Employment Section at the bottom of the page.
Big Names Dept.
* ANDRÉ HAERMEYER, Victorian Police and Emergency
Services Minister, will
have his staff member COLIN
BROOKS under State Opposition scrutiny. As
reported in
Media Flash's Midweek Update (Wed., Aug. 16), Brooks - also
a
City of Banyule Councillor - is a shareholder in
Australian Press Holdings
Pty Ltd, which plans to launch
The Banyule Observer local newspaper on
September 2.
Brooks' business partner is DALE PETERS, current
Banyule
Mayor, and also a former Haermeyer office
staffer. They will pitch their
weekend distribution
newspaper against The Heidelberger, established in
1959
by JOHN MORGAN'S Heidelberg Publishing Company, with the
MOTT
FAMILY'S then-Leader Publishing Company. A look at
Victoria's registered
business names also shows two other
names on the official list: Banyule
Leader and Banyule
Independent. The Banyule Community News monthly is run
by
CAP Press owner CARL A. PREUSKER, son of ARTHUR PREUSKER -
Editor of
The Local Paper (Manningham, Vic.).
*
IMPORTANT NOTE from ASH LONG: From 1995 to 1999, I published
a weekly
paper called The Advertiser in the Banyule -
Nillumbik area. Recent enough
to be still listed in the
Yellow Pages. I was a Manager at Leader in the
late
1970's and early 1980's when some of the newspapers under
my
responsibility were The Heidelberger and Diamond
Valley News. I am a
member of the local Rotary Club of
Rosanna. So I do have a wide, practical
knowledge of the
area and its people. Insiders say that a
Leader
Newspapers staffer told a strategy meeting last
week that I am an investor
or participant in the new
Banyule Observer. Absolutely, categorically not
so. In my
only conversation with co-owner COLIN BROOKS, he wouldn't
even
reveal where the paper is being printed!
Smaller Names Dept.
* PAUL SCOTT of Hot-FM writes: "ABC Regional
Manager at Mildura/Swan Hill,
VICKIE ADAMS, was one of 10
ABC employees in Australia selected to carry
the Olympic
Torch. Her stint was a 400-metre effort at Mildura on
Saturday
(August 19)."
* DAVID FRASER has joined the
Board of PMP Communications as a
Non-Executive
Director.
* ROY WRIGHT has joined The Age as Associate Advertising Director.
* JOHN DIXON, former Executive
Editor at Community News (Vic.), is in
hospital following
a double leg amputation.
Movers And Shakers
* JULIE
UPSON, Publisher of The Western Times (Vic.), went to the
aid of
Art Director MICK MARTIN, resting at home after a
mild heart attack
several weeks before. Mick was said to
have suffered another attack, with
Julie and ad rep MARY
WYTIK driving Mick straight (well, almost) to
Western
Hospital. Was there some equally urgent newspaper business
on the
way to the hospital?
* JULIE UPSON is in
partnership with renowned Editor RON COLEMAN, with
their
Western Times stable of three papers rumored to be a
takeover target
of RUPERT MURDOCH'S Leader Newspapers.
Our real estate spy says Ms Upson
seemed unperturbed when
her Newport home failed to sell at auction several
weeks
ago. It is now listed for private sale at $530,000, with
Jules
making her move to a new $600,000-plus home at
Williamstown's Rifle Range
Estate.
* ZOE VELONIS is
leaving the Editor's position at Brother Sister
newspaper
in Victoria.
* JENNY BOUDA is leaving for
Melbourne after 11 years at The Alpine
Observer and
Myrtleford Times (Vic.).
Regional Round-Up
* MICHAEL
GOREY is promoting the Alpine Link online business in
Myrtleford
(Vic.) Chairman is JUDY BREWER, and Regional
Sales Manager is DAVID
MONTGOMERY. Michael's by-line is
also seen in the editorial columns of
North East &
Goulburn Valley Farmer.
* PAUL SCOTT of Hot-FM writes:
ANDREA CLOSE has resigned from duties at
Mildura's 99.5
FM and 3MA-FM to return to TV in Canberra, presenting
the
weather and undertaking relief newsreading duties at
TEN from August 21,
but taking three weeks off for
pre-arranged Olympic Games duties as venue
announcer for
table tennis and basketball.
* TIM HUGHES has landed
production/announcing work at 3WM Horsham,
following a
scaledown at 3MA Mildura/Star FM 99.5. ANTHONY MILICH,
who
lost his position at Bendigo, is out of radio - he's
home in the Riverland
of South Australia working his next
move. Ex Prime-TV advertising salesman
at Mildura, TRENT
ROSE, is back in radio. Trent is with 3SH Swan Hill,
in
the town where he was raised and educated.
* CHRIS
McPHERSON'S Country News weekly tabloid, 41,500 circulation
in 11
newspapers, last week included its Horticulture &
Viticulture Quarterly.
North-East Victorian contemporary
HARTLEY HIGGINS is publishing the
Victorian Viticulture
News, also quarterly.
Odds and Ends
* NEVILLE WILKINSON
writes: 'Dear Ash, Just a background on our company.
We
are a small publishing business called MagNet Publishing. we
have just
published our first issue of a motor sport
publication named V8X Supercar
Magazine - nothing but V8
supercar. The publication is aimed at the 18-28
youth
demograhic but our larger footprint will tend to be 14-38.
The first
issue is due on the shelf on August 18 (Friday
last week) and is a
lifestyle magazine in the sport of V8
Supercare racing. In the future we
plan to expand our
website incorporating more information and
activities
plus a V8 Supercar Ezine service.'
* LINDSAY
FOX, head of the Linfox transport group, took out a
full-page ad
in today's Daily Telegraph and Sydney
Morning Herald to praise Olympics
organisers. He signed
off with "I am, You are, We are Australians. Now
let's
get on with it!'
* LISBETH GORE ('ELLE McFEAST') 'stars'
in the latest YAHOO SERIOUS
offering, Mr Accident.
Critics say she should go back to interviewing
MARK
'CHOPPER' READ, and he should go back to his name of
GREG PEAD himself.
The Local Report
* LEANNE SMITH is
leading the push of Fairfax Community Newspapers
in
Melbourne's eastern suburbs, and has included a
16-page color House & Land
section in the Maroondah
Journal and Yarra Ranges Journal editions, with
a
combined 69,024 circulation. They have won over space
from major client
KURT GUNTHER of Rosier Real Estate from
Leader's Maroondah Mail and
Llillydale & Yarra Valley
Express. The ad team on the FCN papers includes
Manager
GEORGIE McLEOD, NICKY COSGRIFF and KATHLEEN McARTHY.
* TOM
MILOSEVIC'S Messenger Newspapers has lodged a Freedom of
Information
request with the South Australian State
Government for documents related
to colored sands at
Maslin Beach.
* FRED HILMER has foreshadowed a return of
the printing of Fairfax
Community Newspapers to The Age
presses, returning by April next year from
JOHN B.
FAIRFAX'S Rural Press plants at North Richmond (NSW) and
Ballarat
(Vic.), and TONY WHITING'S Border Mail at
Wodonga (Vic.). The Fairfax
Board has approved a color
capacity upgrade for the Age 'U' Goss press,
enabling
back-to-back color: 'Whilst the new Tullamarine facility
will
cater for The Age and The Australian Financial
Review, (it) does not cater
for current and future color
and capacity demands for FCN in Victoria.' Up
to 45 jobs
will remain at Spencer Street to print the FCN titles.
News
Limited Suburban Newspapers boss GENE SWINSTEAD is
expected to soon
announce new press arrangements for his
Melbourne stable of 31 titles.
Personal Bests
* JOHN
GANNAN continues a top run at the Frankston-Longbeach Flier
and
Mornington Peninsula Flier (Vic.) with the second
fortnightly edition
registering 84 pages, including 56
pages of real estate. Expect the
Fairfax Community
Newspapers title to soon go weekly.
* MAXINE McKEW'S
interview with TOM HUGHES QC, published in The
Bulletin
edited by MAX WALSH, was a fine piece of
journalism.
* JOHN ENGISCH'S Northern Beaches Weekender,
edited by JOY WILSON, this
week had the Page One screamer
headline of 'World War III'. Quite a scoop
for the
Dee-Why based weekly (NSW).
Glass House Dept.
* DENISE
SIMPSON, Manager of the 40-page Southern Gazette Community
(WA),
could have been a little red-faced this week when
the computerised Page 3
went to press, complete with a
spot reading 'Missing Ad. Ad Number:
387568. Account
Number: 15529. Account Details: NEVILLE B. MAY. QJumper
©
1999. Quantum 2000.'
* PHILIP NOLAN, Managing Editor
of Victoria's North East Newspapers, had
his publications
invite readers to dial up the company's new
joint
venture, www.northeasttoday.com.au - 'no appearance
Your Worship' when we
tried to click on, today.
* TONY
MORRIS, Publisher of the 88-cent Numurkah Leader (Vic.),
raised
some local eyebrows with this week's direct
front-page wording on a
difficult subject in his paper:
'Well known Murray Football League
administrator, DAMIEN
JONES, tragically took his own life in the early
hours of
Friday morning last week. Damien suffered a break down in
May and
had been fighting severe depression ever since.'
Brave coverage in a small
town paper.
Members' Mailbag
* LILIANA INGUANTI is new on the Media Flash
subscribers' list. Liliana is
Customer Service Manager of
Fairfax Business Publications' Magazine
Division. We also
add VANESSA McQUARRIE, E-Marketing Writer at B &
T
Weekly; RACHEL SAVIO of Mirror Australian Telegraph
Publications;
ELIZABETH STEREL, Executive Editor at
Sydney Morning Herald; EVE SINTON,
Environment Editor at
The Echo, Byron Bay (NSW); DAVID PRATER,
Researcher,
Centre for International Research on
Communication and Information
Technologies at RMIT
Melbourne; COURTNEY MITCHELL, CHELSEA ARNOLD and
JOHN
SAMPSON at Fairfax Community Newspapers (Vic.);
ANGELA E. CLARKE at Pol;
DARREN WOODLEY, P3, South
Melbourne.
* Welcome also to CAM WARD; ARUN BISWAS;
journalist ANDREW MALE; MICHELLE
BUCKLEY, Recruitment
Sales Manager at Courier Newspapers (NSW); AMY TRAVIS
at
Pacific Strategies; RACHAEL HARRIS at Rural
Press.
Editor's E-Mail
* DAMIAN O'KEEFE writes: "Dear
Ash Long, I am writing in response to the
piece on ALEX
CLULOW'S Sydney Night Out publication. Mr Clulow is
quoted
as saying the publication will be 'the only
magazine catering to Sydney
night venues'. 3D World
Publishing have been publishing 3D World for 10
years.
The content is mostly based on night venues/night clubs
and
associated music." EDITOR REPLIES: Mr Clulow's quotes
come the front-page
of his South Sydney Bulletin. Media
Flash featured 3D World in June this
year.
* RICHARD
WALSH writes: "Dear Ash, Your account of the fate of The
Sunday
Review in your A long Story - Part 3 (Media Flash,
Wed., Aug. 16) was so
garbled as to be totally
misleading. In particular, your statement:
'BARTON'S
Sunday Review followed a similar sales pattern to the
1999
example of The Eye, created by ERIC BEECHER'S Text
Media: both failed to
create a demand for the
publications.' In truth, the Sunday Review became
the
Saturday Review and then The Review, before merging with the
Sydney
fortnightly Nation and emerging as Nation Review.
This weekly, in one form
or another, lasted most of the
70s. In its heyday it outsold Fairfax's
National Times
and was arguably amongst the most influential newspapers
in
the country. It did not fail to create demand; on the
contrary, it
ultimately sank under the burden of fending
off more than 50 libel suits.
Best wishes, Richard
Walsh." EDITOR REPLIES: Richard Walsh selfishly
restricts
his Review memories to HIS days, ignoring that it continued
into
the early 80's under publishers including GEOFF
GOLD, MARY MONTAGU and
PETER ISAACSON. And we've
challenged Walsh to prove one of his claims, by
producing
a copy under the banner of The Saturday Review. We bet
his
memory is wrong: $100 to the Salvos if he comes up
with the goods. The
Zeitgeist wire has returned to
silence.
Long Shots
* JENI COOPER, Editor of The Sunday
Telegraph, perhaps needs her team to
take care with
promotions in the 96-page National Edition.
Yesterday's
front-page boasts a '20-page color travel
lift-out' in Body + Soul. B + S
made just three pages in
the National run. The index gave a reference to
gossip
columnist ROS REINES on Page 94. All that readers found was
PHILLIP
KOCH'S writings.
* RICHARD SCHMEISZL'S by-line
at the South Gippsland Sentinel-Times
carried an
'Exclusive' tag this week over a local union yarn. At one
time,
admittedly in the 1970's, the Sentinel-Times was
streets ahead in layout
and presentation. Now, even the
paper - produced by NOEL LADGROVE - has
conceded that it
is perhaps time for an editorial make-over, with a Page
3
note about a PANPA Awards adjudication: 'This is not a
pretty newspaper,
but it is feisty and knows it.'
*
JOHN HOWARD, Prime Minister, is called a 'Party Boy' in one
online
publication's report about last week's National
Press Club knees-up. The
newsletter has withdrawn its
early Monday edition reference using the
word
'drunk'.
Bottom Line
* $21.9 MILLION half-year
profit is the result announced by APN News &
Media CEO
VINCENT CROWLEY: it's a 31 per cent increase.
* 30
EMPLOYEES is all that the Electrical Trades Union represents
at Seven
Melbourne, according to full-page ads placed on
Saturday by HSV-7 MD DAVID
ASPINALL, taking a stance over
a threat to disrupt the broadcast of the
AFL Grand Final
on September 2.
* $200,000 is being claimed by the
Australian Bankers Association, from
Australia Street
Consulting, according to TIM BOREHAM of The
Weekend
Australian. The company's BOB MILLER - agent of
JOHN LAWS - denies the
debt, and alleges that the ABA
owes it the sum of $67,000.
* $296,960 is the claim against the ABC by former Programmer HUGH McGOWAN.
Last Word
* TOM SALOM reports in today's Daily Telegraph that
GRANT GOLDMAN has been
dumped as the voice of NSW
Cityrail.
P.S. -
* ROXANNE DUNKEL'S Australian Jewish
News had a comment on Friday about
the elevation of JOE
LIEBERMAN as potential US Vice-President. A
whimsical
piece predicts the US will 'never have to pay
retail again for nuclear
warheads'.
A Long Story - Part 4
* ASH LONG recollections have been held over - just like his career!
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Senior Appointments
* BIZ.COM -
the E-commerce section in GREG HYWOOD'S Sydney Morning
Herald
- is hunting for a journalist to edit the
section.
* ALLAN RAE at Rae Consulting is finding a Public
Affairs Professional for
Esso and Mobil, reporting to the
Public Affairs Manager, with possibility
of assignments
in Exxon Mobil's global organisation.
* CHRISSIE VINCENT
at Lyncroft Sydney has the assignment to
take
applications for a National Retail Channels Manager
for Austar.
* ANDREW BRUSHFIELD at Michael Page
International is recruiting a Business
Analyst for the
Village Cinemas International division of
Village
Roadshow. The consultancy - through MATTHEW
GRIBBLE - also wants a
Commercial Manager for Foxtel.
*
MARIA JOSIPOVIC at Management Recruiters Australia is
advertising for
applications for a State Sales Manager -
Victoria for one of Australia's
largest manufacturers and
distributors of broadband wirless equipment. Be
'part of
the future of digital TV', Maria invites.
* GENINE MARTIN
and CLIFF STONEMAN of Dunhill Sales and Marketing
are
hiring an Ad Sales Executive for a client.
Employment
* PETER QUINN, Manager, News Chronicle
Community (WA), seeks applications
for an Advertising
Sales Representative's position to be sent to
the
Northbridge office. Colleague TAMMARA DUNCAN, Manager
of the Comment News
Community advertises a similar
vacancy, and CVs can be forwarded to the
Kelmscott
office.
* SAM TANNOUS wants to appoint a
Journalist/Production Editor to her Ad
News team in
Sydney.
* NETWEEK is advertising in Victoria for an Advertising Sales Manager.
* HAZEL EDWARDS of the
Healesville-based Mountain Views Mail (Vic.) is
promoting
a part-time or full-time classified ad sales consultant
vacancy
for the weekly.
* STEPHEN ROYALL, Associate
Advertising Director at Illwarra Newspaper
Holdings, will
pay a starting package of $27,154 for an Account
Executive
to work for The Illawarra Mercury and The
Wollongong Advertiser. He also
is about to hire a
Telephone Sales Consultant.
More Jobs
* SUSAN McDERMOTT,
GM at Melbourne Independent Newspapers, has set an
August
28 deadline for applications for the Prepress/Production
Manager
vacancy.
* EMMA EDMUNDS, at Fairfax Community
Newspapers (Vic.), seeks
Inbound/Outbound Telephone Sales
Advisers to work from the Dandenong
Classifieds room.
*
HEIDI VOLPE at BRW Media, Melbourne, is taking CVs for an Ad
Manager for
Fairfax Business Publications - publishers of
BRW, Personal Investor and
Shares. The Division also
wants a Photographer, reporting to the
Photographic
Editor, c/- Sydney.
* KRISTINA LECKENBY, Sales Manager at
The Dandenong Journal (Vic.), is
hiring a Display Sales
Representative for the 135-year-old
title.
kleckenby@fcnvic.fairfax.com.au
Even More Jobs
* CHERYL LONG, Director of Ovens & Kiewa Valley Echo
(Vic.) wants an
Ad-visor for the Bright, Myrtleford, Mt
Beauty and Beechworth area. 'We
don't want you to SELL,
we just want to be a point of contact between your
local
businesses and The Valley Echo.'
* PHILLIP NOLAN at the
neighboring Myertleford Times is hiring a B- or
C-Grade
Journo.
* DAVANH INTHACHANH is looking for a Marketing
Assistant to join The
Sydney Morning Herald and Sun
Herald.
* JIM LAWRENCE, Editor of Community News (Vic.),
is advertising for a
Journalist to cover sport for the
Moonee Valley and Moreland editions.
Sub-editing
experience would be handy.
* GLEN ROHAN at Metro News put
an ad in Saturday's Age for a Grade 1
Journalist.
And Just Finally ...
* DEBORAH STONE, Editor of the Melbourne
Edition of The Australian Jewish
News, has introduced the
'Global Shtetl' column with a whip-around
featuring
excerpts from The Jewish Week (New York), Jewish
Chronicle
(London), The Canadian Jewish News and Forward
(New York). 'The wandering
Jew is a weed,' she explains.
'When people use the phrase in Australia
they are usually
referring to an unwelcome plant that finds its way
into
everybody's garden. The name of course comes from
the epithet often
applied to the dispersed community when
internationalism wasn't so
fashionable. In the new
century, being a wanderer is much more of
a
compliment.'
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