Peter Gladwell

Current

• Sub Editor - casual at Fairfax Media
• Chief of Staff at Fairfax Media

Past

• Editor - Sydney Weekly Courier at Federal Publishing Company
• Sports Sub Editor - www.foxsports.com.au at News Ltd
• Editor and Co-Owner at The Northwest Edge

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Education

• University of South Australia

Connections

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Industry

Media Production

Peter Gladwell’s Summary

I have had extensive editorial experience in a variety of roles, especially as a manager. I currently manage a department with 120 employees and a multi-million dollar budget. I have also had experience as an Editor, a Chief Sub Editor, a Sub Editor and as a journalist in print and online. My main strengths are my versatility, relentless drive and my ability to deliver whatever challenge is thrown at me.

Peter Gladwell’s Specialties:

department management, people skills, setting and delivering on set goals, recruiting, financial budget setting and management, editorial production, improving systems and processes, developing new editorial-related software, writing, layout, design, sub-editing.

Peter Gladwell’s Experience

• Sub Editor - casual

  Fairfax Media

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; FXJ; Newspapers industry)

  March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

  In addition to my full-time job, I have been doing an additional day a week as a casual sub-editor at the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun-Herald. I was previously at the Australian Financial Review.

• Chief of Staff

  Fairfax Media

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; FXJ; Newspapers industry)

  May 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)

  I am the Chief of Staff for Fairfax Community Newspapers based at Liverpool. I handle the day-to-day operations of the editorial department and its 120 employees including recruiting, deadline delivery, editorial production, budget management and general editorial operations.

• Editor - Sydney Weekly Courier

  Federal Publishing Company

  (Media Production industry)

  September 2002 — April 2005 (2 years 8 months)

  I was Editor of the Sydney Weekly Courier, a 94,000 circulation free newspaper distributed on Sydney's north shore area. Before this I was a sub-editor for this organisation as well as an Acting Editor of the Wentworth Courier.

• Sports Sub Editor - www.foxsports.com.au

  News Ltd

  (Media Production industry)

  June 2000 — March 2002 (1 year 10 months)

  While with foxsports, I was responsible for multimedia sports content for the website, including extensive writing, editing and multimedia production during the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

• Editor and Co-Owner

  The Northwest Edge

  (Media Production industry)

  2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

Peter Gladwell’s Education

• University of South Australia

  1989 — 1991

Additional Information

Peter Gladwell’s Interests:

editorial software and process development management training travel project/consulting work online readership initiatives

Peter Gladwell’s Groups:

Australian Institute of Management
US Readership Institute

Peter Gladwell’s Honors:

- 2008 PANPA newspaper of the year - Macarthur Advertiser - recruiting and advisory role.
- 2007 Selected as Business Integration Manager on Microster Project team delivering automated rostering to 12 Fairfax Media sub-editing desks on the Sydney Morning Herald, Sun-Herald and www.smh.com.au
- 2006 FCN Editorial Achievement Award
- 2005 FCN Innovation Award - Departure Lounge Program
- 1993, 1994 and 1996 ASNA Newspaper of the year (Hills Shire Times)
- 1993 and 1994 ASNA Award finalist - Best Sports Story

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