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That pest, the editor. (Devine).
ONE OF the enduring mysteries of Australian journalism--although the number of memories in which it endures is not large--is why I was fired in December 1989 as editor of the Australian, after less than fifteen months in the job.
"You've done as much as you can with the paper," declared Ken Cowley, the News Corp managing director, when he gave me the shove. This surprised me because I thought I had barely reached cruising speed. True, the Australian's circulation had risen 4.6 per cent in the recently-ended six-month audit period, the largest increase for ten years by a daily paper in a single audit. But this was surely not as much as I could, and should, do. I ...
- Profile: Lachlan Murdoch; Heir to the Sun and Sky
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Robert Milliken May 7, 1995 700+ words
...young Lachlan should lead the super league raid, alongside Ken Cowley, chief executive of Murdoch operations in Australia. It...the Murdoch corporate headquarters across town, Lachlan and Ken Cowley negotiated with players late into the night, offering them...
- Proof positive.
- Magazine article from: Information Age (London, UK) February 10, 2002 700+ words
...information for their cards and merchants have adapted their servers to the systems. Until then, what can merchants do? Ken Cowley, strategy director of payments technology group Etc, says that a company first needs to be clear about its procedures...
- That's your opinion: a conversation with Sol Lebovic.(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Devine, Frank July 1, 2007 700+ words
SOL LEBOVIC was group manager of marketing services for News Corporation when managing director Ken Cowley observed that what the company really needed was a political opinion polling service. Lebovic said he would be interested in running...
- Air New Zealand to buy stake in Ansett Holdings of Australia
- Newspaper article from: The Press September 3, 1996 700+ words
...capital into Ansett at the same time as it sells its stake and buys Ansett New Zealand. The chief executive of News Ltd, Ken Cowley, who is also the executive chairman of Ansett, welcomed Air New Zealand as a partner. ``We look forward to this alliance...
- Announcing INDOPAC: major new business group to confront issues of...
- Magazine article from: Business Asia Charlton, Peter August 1, 2008 700+ words
...Patron: John Howard--former Australian Prime Minister --Roger Corbett, former CEO, Woolworths, Australia --Ken Cowley, Chairman R.M. Williams, Director-Main Board News Ltd., Australia --Phil Burgess--Group Managing Director Public...
- News aims to save deal with Ansett NZ buy
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times April 7, 1996 700+ words
...managing director Jim McCrea said the the company was still "very much committed" to securing an influential stake in Ansett. Ken Cowley, chairman of Ansett and chief executive of News Ltd, said he believed the ruling would not prevent the deal being finalised...
- Air NZ ready to wield axe at Ansett
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times HALL, Terry September 15, 1996 700+ words
...complacent and could be much more profitable. But the Kiwi airline will have a hard job convincing Ansett's tough chairman Ken Cowley that changes are necessary. Air New Zealand has announced it intends to buy TNT's half share in Ansett Australia. To satisfy...
- Asia gets high share of new luxury hotels.
- Magazine article from: Business Asia July 19, 1999 700+ words
...determined finalists in this year's Best Business Hotels in Asia Awards. Other judges were News Corporation director, Mr Ken Cowley; strategic investment coordinator in the Australian Prime Minister's office, Mr Bob Mansfield; chairman of The Charlton...
Source: HighBeam Research, That pest, the editor. (Devine).