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John Hartigan (media Executive)
John Hartigan (born 1947) is a former Australian journalist and media executive, who worked for News Ltd for 41 years, ending his career there as CEO and chair in 2011. Career Hartigan started his career in newspapers at the age of 16 and worked for John Fairfax and Sons from 1964 to 1970. After joining News Ltd in 1970 as a reporter on ''The Daily Mirror'' in 1970, he later worked for ''The Daily Telegraph'', both in Sydney. He then moved to London worked for '' The Sun'', and on to New York City to report for the ''New York Post''. Upon his return to Australia, Hartigan moved to Brisbane to take up editorship of the Queensland edition of the ''Sunday Herald Sun'', and became inaugural editor of ''The Daily Sun'' there. He was also director of News Ltd subsidiary Queensland Sun Newspapers. In 1986 Hartigan took up editorship of ''The Daily Telegraph'', being promoted to Editor-in-Chief of both ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Telegraph'' in 1989. In 1997 he was ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News Ltd
News Corp Australia is an Australian media conglomerate and wholly owned subsidiary of the American News Corp. One of Australia's largest media conglomerates, News Corp Australia employs more than 8,000 staff nationwide and approximately 3,000 journalists. The group's interests span newspaper and magazine publishing, Internet, subscription television in the form of Foxtel, market research, DVD and film distribution, and film and television production trading assets. News Pty Limited (formerly News Limited) is the holding company of the group. News Corp Australia owns approximately 142 daily, Sunday, weekly, bi-weekly, and tri-weekly newspapers, of which 102 are suburban publications (including 16 in which News Corp Australia has a 50% interest). News Corp Australia publishes a nationally distributed newspaper in Australia, a metropolitan newspaper in each of the Australian cities of Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, and Sydney, as well as groups of suburban n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unfair Dismissal
In labour law, unfair dismissal is an act of employment termination made without good reason or contrary to the country's specific legislation. Situation per country Australia (See: '' unfair dismissal in Australia'') Australia has long-standing protection for employees in relation to dismissal. Most of that protection was however confined in one of two ways. An employer could not dismiss an employee for a prohibited reason, most typically membership of a union.Such a''Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act'' 1904 (Cth)s9(1). An individual however could not challenge their own dismissal as being unfair and instead had to rely upon a union challenging the fairness of the dismissal. This remedy however was generally only available in the state tribunals. A similar definition existed at the Commonwealth level, however it was considerably limited by the requirement under the Constitution to establish an inter-state dispute. The ability for an individual to seek relief from unfai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |