Eric Beecher is an Australian journalist, editor and media proprietor. He was editor of the '' Sydney Morning Herald'' for four years and for three years was editor-in-chief of the Herald and Weekly Times group.

Career

In 1990, he founded Text Publishing, which he sold to

Fairfax Media Fairfax Media was a media company in Australia and New Zealand, with investments in newspaper, magazines, radio and digital properties. The company was founded by John Fairfax as John Fairfax and Sons, who purchased '' The Sydney Morning Hera ...

in 2003 for $66 million.Fairfax makes friendly bid for Text Media
/ref> He purchased

Crikey Crikey is an Australian electronic magazine comprising a website and email newsletter available to subscribers. Crikey was described by the former Federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham as the "most popular website in Parliament House" in ''Th ...

in 2005 for $1 million from its founder

Stephen Mayne Stephen Mayne (born 23 July 1969) is an Australian Walkley Award winning journalist, local government councillor, and self-described shareholder activist. Career Journalism Mayne worked for a number of media outlets and was a media adviser t ...

, a former Liberal staffer, now a local council politician. He is a shareholder in Australian Independent Business Media, publisher of the online magazines ''

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'' and ''Eureka Report''. In 2007, he received a Walkley Award for journalistic leadership.

References

Living people Australian media executives Year of birth missing (living people) The Sydney Morning Herald editors {{Australia-journalist-stub