Australian Mitchell Murphy has been appointed Managing Editor of the Sunday Star Times and the Sunday News. He is currently Managing Editor of Fairfax Digital in Queensland. Murphy, 42, is apparently very much of an "Aussie bloke," so that should provide something of a contrast with the Star Times' departing editor Cate Honore Brett. Chris Baldock remains in the role of Sunday News editor.
The Sunday Star Times has been looking a little on the dull side lately, with strong competition from its APN rival the Herald on Sunday. It will be interesting to see what Murphy does with the paper. On the one hand it could perhaps do with a little livening up, but hopefully it won't go right to the other extreme and become ruthlessly commercial and tabloid-style in its content.
The paper is also losing its long-time deputy editor Donna Chisholm, to the ACP magazines North and South and Metro. Chisholm is one of the best journalists around - an old-fashioned newsperson in all the best senses of the word! She'll be a great addition to the ACP team.
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I've noticed that the Sunday Star Times and the Sunday News have started to share stories more and more lately. I find this a bit of an odd trend and I wonder if it will get worse now that they have the same editor across both papers?
Then again, does anyone still read the Sunday News?
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