Tasmanian regional mastheads under Font PR umbrella
By Jonas Lopez in Media News on Friday, 19th July 2019 at 12:18pmPR agency Font has acquired Tasmania regional publications the Sorell Times and the Tasman Gazette from local company Temperate Zone Tasmania.
The agency announced in a Facebook post that Martine Haley will be in charge of the two mastheads. She had previously worked at the Hobart Mercury and Manly Daily.
The purchase follows Font’s purchase of the Derwent Valley Gazette early this year, with Roger Hanson as editor.
The MEAA’s Tasmania chapter has raised concerns about the papers’ editorial integrity under Font’s stewardship, considering that two of the agency’s partners – Brad Nowland and Brad Stansfield – are former Liberal Party senior advisers and Haley herself ran a dummy Facebook account to troll opposition supporters.
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