CAITLIN FITZSIMMONS

I have a feature in The Australian’s Media section today about Facebook and the issues with the defacement of tribute pages for dead children in Australia. I met with the face of Facebook Debbie Frost in San Francisco on Friday for a lengthy one-on-one interview and the feature is running in tomorrow’s paper. Of course, it’s already the future in Australia, so here’s the link:
The Australian, Media, 1 March 2010: Faceless no more – Facebook admits errors

My profile of Rebekah Brooks, nee Wade, is in The Australian today. The editor of British tabloid The Sun, the biggest selling newspaper in UK, is set to take the helm at News International, Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper division.

I interviewed some of Wade’s current and former colleagues at News International, including her former editor at the News of the World, Phil Hall.

The full story is in The Australian’s Media section today and online.

My profile of BBC One controller Jay Hunt is in the media section of The Australian today.

The story is largely based on an one-on-one interview I did with Hunt – one of only two she gave in the months after taking the job last year (the other was to Britain’s Daily Telegraph).

Hunt is arguably the second most powerful woman in British television – after Jana Bennett, the director of BBC Vision. She is also an Australian by birth.

Read the Jay Hunt profile here.

Mondays are a busy day in media. Not only is it the publication day for the Media Guardian and the Independent’s Media Weekly, but The Australian has now shifted the publication date of its Media section from Thursday to Monday.

Today, I have an article on global business newspapers and the Wall Street Journal in The Australian, and a feature on how traditional media are adapting to the new media world in the Media Guardian’s Changing Advertising supplement.

I have a feature in the media section of The Australian today about Macquarie Bank’s growing media empire in the UK. The Australian investment bank has been investing heavily in the UK media, mostly on the infrastructure and services side through Arqiva and Red Bee Media. In Australia, it owns a string of radio stations as well as media infrastructure, but it has not gone down this route in the UK and recently ditched plans for a radio station in Plymouth in Cornwall and Devon.