Three clients this year have all come in with record profits. It’s a symptom of what they are – excellent companies. BHPB made record EBITDA of US$20.1 Billion, and profits of $13.7 billion. Thats on the back of some stellar commodity prices and solid volume increases. Records in Aluminium and Stainless Steel Materials helped things …
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Bernard Hickey: Blogger
Fairfax NZ Digital chief Bernard Hickey is now blogging, at Show Me the Money. I worked with Bernard at Fairfax when he came across from the Independent Financial Review to run Fairfax Digital. Good guy. Bernard is first and foremost a professional journalist, and is always good for some insights and opinions on what the …
Fairfax fires star blogger – the dark implications
A Star Blogger is fired by Fairfax… no not me….(I’m still doing a little work for Fairfax) (oh yeah – and am not a star)…. …or Juha, who has recently moved is job, and blog, (where he is a star) to Fairfax NZ. (Welcome aboard!) No – Fairfax Australia, clearly a corporation run by foreigners*, …
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smh redesign
Looks like smh.com.au has had a brush over, as has The Age. I like it. It is much clearer than before, and the front page is really long. Interestingly enough the top left placement is a photo, which is not standard, and I expected a huge story, but it’s something I really don’t care about. …
The Australian on AFR.com.au
A good article in the Australian about the debacle that is AFR.com.au. Killer quote from Cheief Executve Michael Gill: “We are not aware of any other product like that, which is why it has been an unusually complex project.” and the response from Mark Day, the journalist: “Unusually complex? Therein lies the problem. The technical …
Drivetalk
I’m becoming addicted to Dave Moore’s Drivetalk. I’ll let Dave’s resume speak for itself: “Dave Moore is Motoring Editor for The Press and The Dominion Post and blogs for Stuff on all things automotive. His words also appear regularly in other Fairfax titles, including NZ Autocar, and he can be heard every week on NewstalkZB. …
MISAustralia.com – lousy launch
Good: launching a new site Stupendously Bad: Using AFR.com technology I don’t know where to sart – such a frustrating experience from a new site.. The articles are displayed in flash. You can’t copy, highlight with a mouse as you read, change the size of the reading window or scroll using the mouse button. In …
RugbyHeaven soft launch
The guys at Fairfax have quietly launched rugbyheaven.co.nz. (Sadly I am not there to watch) If you were (a rugby fan and) wondering where YahooXtra’s Marc Hinton and Duncan Johnstone had got to . . . . well now you know. There are also articles there from the likes of The Press’s Richard Fowler, Dom …
COO & Chief Editor Peter O’Hara leaves Fairfax
Peter O’Hara’s old COO/Chief editor job is being expanded and split in two, and Peter has decided to part ways. This was news to me, and that’s a sad loss to Fairfax, though I trust we will see Peter bounce up somewhere else.
New News Blogs
I notice the West Australian just launched blogs on Friday the 22nd of June. Coincidentally so did we at Stuff. On The House is the first blog, and it is written by Colin Espiner, the political editor of The Press. His first post is a fun read of how things really work in the House. …
How to hire the best people you’ve ever worked with..
Actually that’s a title of an entry of Marc Andreessen‘s new blog. He’s the sort of guy that gets 48,562 pageviews in his first 4.5 days of blogging. I imagine Sam Morgan would get a similar (NZ scaled) response if he started blogging. I agree with Marc’s criteria for hiring good people – (Intelligence,) Drive, …
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Lance Wiggs 