Media Movers across the industry include:
• Frontier Media, part of the VMG network, welcomed two appointments as it grows its national footprint while also strengthening its skill set in the Queensland market.
Joining the media agency as account director Leanne Hood and account executive Juliana Ramirez. Both appointments are effective immediately.
Read more: Frontier Media welcomes the appointments of Leanne Hood and Juliana Ramirez
• Australian Community Media has announced the appointment of Anna McGuinness as a breaking news journalist. She will focus on breaking national news, studies and data releases directed at regional Australia.
• Taking on the deputy digital editor role at The Australian Financial Review is Alana Christensen.
• The Australian Financial Review has appointed Victoria Thieberger to the new role of special reports editor. In the role, she will oversee the digital production value of special reports and boost audience and engagement, starting from May 1.
• The Jayco Herald Sun Tour – a major international bike race and hallmark event in the Victorian Major Events calendar – has announced the appointment of Agostino Giramondo, The Weekly Times’s general manager.
Giramondo takes over the role from outgoing chairman Tom Salom.
Read more: Jayco Herald Sun Tour appoints Agostino Giramondo as its new chairman
• Jessica Kingston wraps up her role as managing editor at Mamamia after five years with the online publication. She will begin her new role as a web content producer at Western Sydney University.
• Zoe Samios joins The Australian Financial Review as a business reporter from mid-May. In the role, she will cover gaming and the business of sport. Her most recent role was as media and telecommunications reporter from The Sydney Morning Herald.
• Est Living has promoted Lidia Boniwell as the editorial, social media and video coordinator.
• 303 MullenLowe Perth has welcomed the appointment of international talent Matt Oakley to the new position of chief strategy officer.
Most recently, strategy and planning director at one of the UK’s most highly rewarded and recognised independent Brand Design firms Taxi Studio in Bristol and London, Oakley will move from Bristol to Perth to take up the role in June, joining MD René Migliore and newly appointed chief creative officer Damian Royce.
Read more: 303 MullenLowe Perth welcomes Matt Oakley as chief strategy officer
• Are Media has announced the appointment of Tina Burke as digital managing editor (Entertainment). She will oversee the digital presence of Who, New Idea, Woman’s Day, Now To Love, The Australian Women’s Weekly and TV WEEK.
• Keryn Donnelly has wrapped up her stint as pop culture editor after six years with Mamamia. She is going freelance and is open to receiving pitches, PR material and event invites related to pop culture and the entertainment space.
• The Australian Financial Review has welcomed the appointment of Yolanda Redrup as Rich List co-editor. Redrup has been a member of the Rich List team for several years writing features for the AFR Magazine’s Rich List and Young Rich issues.
• Edelman has announced the appointment of Monique McLaughlin as head of Health in Australia.
McLaughlin brings over 25 years of experience to the company as an in-house strategic communications advisor, specialising in healthcare and the industrial sector for organisations such as General Electric, Amgen and AstraZeneca.
Read more: Edelman welcomes Monique McLaughlin as health lead for Australia
• Journalist Jason Katsaras relocates to Townsville from Adelaide, where he will take up a new role as a reporter for ABC North Queensland.
• The Australian Financial Review has promoted Negar Salek as digital editor. Prior to this role, Salek was a business tech reporter and social media editor.
• Triple M Central Queensland has welcomed a new voice to breakfast radio. Victorian Anthony Stefanos joins Shannon ‘Pinky’ Neven on Central Queensland’s Triple M Breakfast.
While not Central Queensland born and bred, Pinky had a red-hot CQ brand ready at the studio, officially welcoming him to beef country.
Read more: Triple M Central Queensland welcomes Anthony Stefanos to breakfast radio
• The Sydney Morning Herald welcomes Millie Muroi as a business reporter. She began at the publication as a trainee journalist.
• Trout has welcomed the appointment of Emily Pockley as general manager.
Pockley’s appointment follows key new business wins, including Middy’s, Peerless, Pellicano and Parkwood Doors.
Read more: Trout welcomes Emily Pockley as general manager
• Tom Rabe is departing The Sydney Morning Herald for his new role at The Australian Financial Review as its WA political correspondent. He begins in the Perth-based role in mid-April.
• Niche Media welcomes Helena Morgan to Australian Design Review as an in-house writer.
• Impact.com has announced a raft of promotions as it continues to expand its brand, publisher, and agency portfolio across APAC.
Nick Randall has been promoted to the newly created position of regional vice president of customer growth, APAC.
Read more: impact welcomes a raft of new promotions
• FS Sustainability welcomes Rose Mary Petrass as a senior journalist. Petrass joins from The Fifth Estate, where she was a journalist.
• The Australia Financial Review has appointed Sarah Jones as markets editor. In the role, she will lead a group of writers and boost the Markets Live blog. Jones will begin in the role from April 17th.
• Soofia Tariq joins SBS as an audio federal political reporter based in the Canberra Parliament House Bureau. She moves from The Canberra Times where she was a journalist.
• Scire – the business publication launched by former Nine execs Chris Janz and David Eisman – has appointed experienced journalist and editor John McDuling as its inaugural editor-in-chief.
McDuling joins from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, where he led coverage of companies, markets, finance, technology and media as national business editor.
Read more: Chris Janz and David Eisman’s Scire names John McDuling as inaugural editor-in-chief
• Purple Sneakers has announced the appointment of Jessie Lynch as editor. She was previously a freelance writer at Rolling Stone, Punkee, Tone Deaf and The Brag.
• Hannah Scott moves into communications after more than five years as Canberra news editor at the Seven Network as the communications and engagement officer at the Australian National University.
• Mamamia has appointed Alix Nicholson as managing editor. In the role, she will be the operational lead for the written team. In the past, she was acting fashion, features, and beauty editor of Hello May and deputy editor at Who.
• From Monday, April 3, Zan Rowe will take a break from presenting Double J Mornings every day for the rest of the year, as she focuses on bringing Take 5 back to the screen.
Double J listeners can hear Karen Leng on Mornings from 9am-midday Monday to Thursday for the rest of 2023. Rowe will be heard once a week, rounding out the week by hosting Friday Mornings with Take 5 and DESKO.
Read more: Karen Leng to take over Double J Mornings from Zan Rowe
• Kat McGuffie begins her new role as content manager for ABC Jazz and ABC Classic. In the role, she will commission content for ABC Classic and Jazz radio, online, ABC listen, ABC iview and ABC TV.
• The Age welcomes Carla Jaeger as sports reporter. She began with the paper as a trainee journalist.
• Joining The Australian Financial Review is Emma Rapaport as part of the publication’s Street Talk team. She joins from Morningstar, where she was editor.
• ARN welcomes Alyssa Partington as a podcast producer. She joins from Wavelength Creative, where she was a podcast producer.