News Corp has made changes to its commercial leadership to facilitate the integration of the Australian Regional Media business that was acquired at the end of last year.
News Corp's chief operating officer of publishing Damian Eales says the changes are designed to build state-based structures that will ensure the company is better placed to serve local communities and advertisers.
Jason Scott, current executive general manager of the Courier Mail, Sunday Mail and Quest community business, has been appointed as managing director, QLD and NT.
This is a new single operating division combining all of News Corp Australia’s metro, regional and community titles in QLD, northern NSW and the NT.
Damian Eales
Neil Monaghan, current managing director regional media, has been appointed to a national role as managing director, publishing operations.
Monaghan led the first phase of the ARM integration and will now picks up responsibility for publishing operations, including procurement, logistics and production across the country.
Peter Zavecz, current managing director HWT commercial, has been appointed as managing director Victoria and Tasmania, commercial.
Zavecz, the former CEO of Pacific Magazines, joined News Corp in August last year. In this expanded role, he will take on management responsibility for Hobart and Geelong in addition to the HWT business.
Peter Zavecz
News Regional Media executive GM Nick Trompf has decided to leave the company for personal reasons after 30 years at the publisher.
“For the communities we serve, these changes will enable commercial and editorial teams to work together to publish more local news, sport and entertainment than ever before," Eales says.
“For advertisers, these changes will enable us to serve more needs by aligning our many different products and services into simple-to-execute and highly efficient media partnerships.”
Eales was promoted in March this year, stepping up from his role as MD of metro and regional publishing. At the same time, Nicole Sheffield was also promoted to News Corp’s chief digital offer.
The news comes ahead of the evening's News Corp event to launch its luxury ad network.
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