Australian Press Council Industry Members

Dave Braithwaite (Nine Metro Publishing)

Dave Braithwaite is the Head of Editorial Operations for Nine’s Metro Publishing, with extensive experience in newspaper, digital and cross-platform journalism. Previously, he held positions of Head of Video at Fairfax, Digital Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald and Online News Editor of The Age.

Dave is a digital content and strategy specialist who has also worked as an Executive Producer for Digital News and Current Affairs at the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), and then Managing Editor, Online, overseeing digital content across the network.

Lachlan Heywood (Daily Mail Australia)

Lachlan Heywood is executive editor of Daily Mail Australia, with more than 20 years of experience in newspaper and digital publishing. He is a former editor of Queensland’s The Courier-Mail and The Townsville Bulletin as well as a former deputy editor of The Sunday Mail.

As a young reporter, Lachlan spent several years at regional dailies and also worked as a political reporter for News Corp in the Canberra press gallery. During his tenure at The Courier Mail, Lachlan delivered rapid growth in digital subscribers and audience. Until recently, he was a member of the Queensland Premier’s Special Taskforce on Domestic and Family Violence. Lachlan joined Daily Mail Australia in late 2017.

Matthew Ricketson (Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance)

Matthew Ricketson is an academic and journalist, appointed in 2009 as the Inaugural Professor of Journalism at the University of Canberra. From mid-2006 to early 2009, he was Media and Communications Editor for The Age. Matthew has worked at The Australian, Time Australia magazine and The Sunday Herald, among other publications.

He was appointed by the federal government in 2011 to assist the Finkelstein Inquiry into the Media and Media Regulation. He is a chief investigator on two Australian Research Council projects investigating the impact of mass redundancies on Australian newsrooms and the reinvention of journalism. He is the author of three books and editor of two, and he is President of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia. Glenn Stanaway (News Corp Australia) Glenn Stanaway is National Executive Editor for News Corp Australia. Previously, he held the posts of Executive Editor of News Corp’s Sunday newspapers; Executive Editor, Deputy Editor and Digital Editor of The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph; Executive Editor (Olympics) of The Daily Telegraph; Assistant Editor and Chief-of-Staff of The Daily Telegraph. Glenn has also been News Corp’s European Bureau Chief and Parliamentary Bureau Chief in Canberra, and The Courier-Mail’s Canberra political correspondent. He has also been an editor at the China Daily in Beijing.

Erik Jensen (small publisher representative)

Erik Jensen is the founding editor of The Saturday Paper and editor-in-chief of Schwartz Media. He has previously worked at The Sydney Morning Herald, where he won the Walkley Award for Young Print Journalist of the Year and the United Nations Association of Australia’s Media Peace Award. His first book, Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen, won the Nib Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Walkley Book Award and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. A film of the book, for which he co- wrote the screenplay, won The Age Critics Prize at the Melbourne International Film Festival. He is also the author of On Kate Jennings and Quarterly Essay 74: The Prosperity Gospel. Erik was appointed as a small publisher Member of Press Council in August 2019.

(Brian) Hartley Higgins (Country Press Australia)

(Brian) Hartley Higgins was appointed as representative for Country Press Australia on 11 December 2020. Hartley Higgins is chairman and managing director of Provincial Press Group, a fourth generation regional and special interest publisher. Provincial Press Group publishes regional, rural and special interest newspapers in Victoria and New South Wales, and industry wine, viticulture, forests and timber journals in South Australia. Hartley is a former director of a Lloyds insurance broking and risk management firm, the regional broadcaster 3NE/Edge FM, and digital property portal realestateview.com.au His special interests are regional development, tourism and snow sports. Qualifying and an Associate of the Australian Insurance Institute, he is a former Fellow of the Australian Insurance Brokers Association and Fellow of the Institute of Directors of Australia. He is a past president and current a director of the Victorian Country Press Association Ltd. Vacant (Community Newspapers Australia)

Vacant (HT& E, formerly APN News & Media) .

Vacant (Are Media previously Bauer Media)

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