Mr Fix-it in the Running

Arguably the best-placed candidate to head News Corporation’s new publishing company is New Zealander Tom Mockridge, the safe pair of hands that Rupert Murdoch parachuted in to lead News International out of the phone-hacking scandal, following the resignation of Rebekah Brooks. The Guardian’s Mark Sweney continues: “Murdoch’s desire for an internal candidate to head the company puts Mr Fix-it Mockridge and the former Times editor Robert Thomson among those in the frame. Since joining the Murdoch empire in 1991, 56-year old Mockridge has risen through the ranks from Foxtel to Star TV and most recently running Sky Italia.”


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Amy Brown’s New Novel Inspired by Women and Art

Amy Brown’s New Novel Inspired by Women and Art

Like many writers before her, New Zealand-born Amy Brown takes inspiration from the Australian feminist icon Stella Maria Miles Franklin in her captivating debut novel My Brilliant Sister – but instead…