Aaron Goodwin has commenced as a reporter at The Courier Mail.  Goodwin will be covering court and other local news in the Moreton Bay region.  Prior to that, he was a journalist at Bundaberg Today.  He has previously worked across regional and rural Queensland in various reporting roles.   

Lauren Brown has been promoted as head of morning TV partnerships at Seven Network.  Prior to this, she was a partnerships manager across Sunrise and The Morning Show. Brown has been with the network for nearly a decade assuming various roles including production coordinator, producer/production manager for The Morning Show, The Daily Edition Advertorials and for The Advertising Content Team within Sales and a program specialist leading for The Morning Show and Daily Edition within Partnerships/ Sales. Responsible for all revenue for both shows, including management of talent, production and sales team. She has also worked in the Sky News Channel, FoxSports and Shaw communications previously.   

Steph Panecasio has announced that she has been appointed Editorial Lead at NetflixANZ. Panecasio moves to the new role of leading the editorial team at Netflix from her most recent position as CNET editor for more than two years where she wrote and edited news and features across tech, science, culture and entertainment. Panecasio tweeted that she is kicking off in the new position by “talking about death” which is “one of her favourite things”.  She has held various editorial roles across networks including Seven Network, Finder, Pedestrian Group and more.  She was also a freelance copywriter for more than three years and an editorial intern at Signature Media, Mashable and The Hype at Oxygen360. Panecasio's appointment is effective immediately.   

Journalist Matthew Knott has been promoted to a new role as foreign affairs and national security correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age.  Prior to that, he was a US correspondent for the mastheads covering the Trump administration, the 2020 presidential election, the US-China trade war and more.  Knott has been with the titles for more than a decade holding roles including the US correspondent and political reporter.  His other gigs include being a media editor at cricket.com.au and a journalist at The Power Index.  Knott will commence in his new role in late August.   

ABC has announced the appointment of former Nine technology chief Damian Cronan to the role of chief digital and information officer. Cronan joins the broadcaster from his most recent position as chief information and technology officer at Nine and has a vast two decades of experience across various media organisations in chief technology officer roles including Nine MSN, Stan and Nine Network. ABC managing director David Anderson said that the team is looking forward to Cronan joining them.  “Damian will play a key role in the delivery of the ABC Five-Year Plan as we continue to transform to be the nation’s most trusted and valued digital content provider across all platforms,” Anderson said.  Cronan said that he is “honoured and humbled” to be appointed to head up the broadcaster’s digital unit.  “I’m excited to be given the opportunity to join David and the team and contribute to the ABC’s mission and future success,” Cronan said.  ABC’s acting chief

Andrew Hough has been promoted to the role of investigations editor at The Advertiser.  In his new role, Hough will be covering a variety of issues including law and order, politics and general news.  Prior to his promotion, he was a senior journalist at the masthead covering the COVID-19 pandemic.  Hough is excited to take up his “absolute dream job” after more than 9 years of working as a senior journalist including 7 years in the UK.  He has held other journalism roles including home news reporter at The Telegraph for more than five years, UK correspondent for Reuters and a journalist at Evening Standard.  Hough began his career at The Advertiser as a journalist, working for more than three years.    

SCA has announced new appointments to a raft of newly created content roles for Hit and Triple M stations and other regional networks.   Nathan Bongiovanni begins at Hit103.1 in Townsville as assistant content director and announcer from the Workday shift at regional Hit Network while Carley Whittington commences as Triple M workday announcer from Townsville’s Hit103.1 and Alicia Foster as the new Hit Queensland breakfast producer working on Hit Breakfast with Cliffo & Gabi. Blair Woodcock, SCA head of content – regional said that the new hires and the newly created roles are a sign of growth and development for the team and to strengthen the regional radio market.  “It’s great to announce these moves as it reflects the growth and development of our existing team and allows us to open the door to more content creators who are excited about creating fiercely local content with SCA. We have existing roles to fill, and exciting new opportunities yet to be announced,”