Friday, March 08, 2013

Editors’ feud: Fairfax boss fires back at Monthly ed’s email attack


| Feb 28, 2013 -  Crikey

Fairfax metro media editorial director Garry Linnell has fired back at claims from The Monthly editor John van Tiggelen that popular magazine insert Good Weekend has never “looked so bereft” as it does under editor Ben Naparstek.

In a stunning email, which has been widely circulating at Fairfax and is published in The Australian today, van Tiggelen attacks Naparstek as a “f-cking dalek” who steals writers and ideas and pays writers wildly different rates. Naparstek, 27, was van Tiggelen’s predecessor as editor.
At least one Good Weekend regular, former Fairfax journalist Lisa Pryor, has already threatened to stop writing for the magazine unless they increase her pay.

Full report at Crikey

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