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The Australian’s Simon Canning has become the third veteran of Australia’s small community of media and marketing writers to depart in recent days.

Canning, who spent nine years writing about advertising and marketing for The Australian’s Media section, and eight years before that editing AdBrief, has accepted redundancy. Mumbrella understands that he leaves The Australian on good terms. The Australian’s media section is also about to get a new editor with Nick Tabakoff due to return to replace Stephen Brook who moves into a writing role.

Today also marks Tim Addington’s last day as editor of B&T magazine after nearly four years at the helm. He will head up communications for creative agency The Works.

And media and marketing writer Julian Lee took redundancy from the Sydney Morning Herald a week ago.

Sydney Morning Herald media writer Julian Lee is among a raft of redundancies felt at publishing giant Fairfax this week.

Lee, who returned to the Herald only seven months ago, announced his departure from the title yesterday on Twitter.

Before rejoining the Herald, Lee had a short stint as deputy editor of fellow Fairfax title The National Times. He was marketing editor of The Herald between 2004 and 2011.

Lee is now considering his next move.

Fairfax announced the axing of 1,900 jobs in June, along the introduction of paywalls for online content.

Jane Huxley, the well regarded CEO and Publisher of Fairfax Digital is to leave the company, the Smh is reporting.

According to the Smh’s Julian Lee, Huxley’s role has disappeared in a restructuring and she will leave the company at the end of the month.

Instead there will be a “chief product officer” spanning both print and digital.

A statement from Fairfax said:

Jane Huxley has decided to leave Fairfax. She will leave her current position at the end of May but will continue to work on a number of strategic projects for the Metro Media and Marketplaces divisions until June 30.

Metro Media CEO, Jack Matthews, today announced the creation of a new role, Chief Product Officer, which will span product development across all Metro Media platforms.

Matthews said: “Of course Jane would be completely capable of assuming this role and would unquestionably do an outstanding job. Unfortunately,...

Former Macquarie Radio Network CEO Angela Clark has joined the ABC as one of a series of major changes revealed by the national broadcaster today.

Clark will be director of innovation at the ABC. Meanwhile Bruce Belsham, previously editor of abc.net.au, has been promoted to head of current affairs in the ABC’s news division.

Abigail Thomas, head of strategic development at ABC innovation, is leaving to work for Deloitte Online Consulting.

Ian Carroll, the ABC’s previous director of innovation, died in August.

Their appointments come as The Sydney Morning Herald’s Julian Lee reports that Jim Spigelman is to be named as the organisation’s new chairman.

Most recently Clark was CEO of hyperlocal news startup streetcorner.com.au. She was previously reported as the 75% owner of Streetcorner. At the time of posting it was unclear whether she still retains an interest in the organisation although...