MEDIA RELEASE PR37066
Australian Associated Press CEO To Step Down In New Year
SYDNEY, Nov. 12 /Medianet International-AsiaNet/ --
Australian Associated Press announced today that Chief Executive Officer Clive Marshall will leave the
company at the end of January 2010 following his appointment as Chief Executive Officer of the Press
Association Group in London.
Michael Gill, the Chairman of AAP, said Clive Marshall had transformed the business into a dynamic,
customer-focused and diversified media group with a growing reputation worldwide.
"Clive fostered the essential news focus of our agency and managed the business smoothly into some well-
suited diversification," Mr Gill said.
"While Clive will be missed, his efforts and management have built in AAP a team of executives that we are
confident will provide strong leadership in the years ahead.
"We certainly wish Clive well in his new - or perhaps renewed - challenge," Mr Gill said.
Clive Marshall said: "It has been my privilege to head up AAP for the past nine years. During that time, the
company has gone through an extraordinary period of change. We have significantly strengthened and
developed our news and information services whilst broadening and diversifying our revenues through a
number of stand-alone commercial businesses including Pagemasters, MediaNet and Newscentre.
"It is testimony to the skill, commitment and dedication of our employees that Australian Associated Press is
now recognised by its peers as one of the world's leading news agencies.
"I am particularly proud of the success of our page production business Pagemasters. In the past seven
years Pagemasters has grown from a company employing 30 people providing TV listings to Australian
newspapers, to one which today employs over 140 people and produces 4500 editorial and data pages each
week for newspapers in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Pagemasters is receiving enquiries
for its services from newspaper publishers around the world."
Mr Marshall joined AAP in 2001 having originally spent eight years at the PA Group in a number of senior
roles. He was appointed a director of the PA Group in 2000.
About Australian Associated Press (AAP)
Founded in 1935, AAP is the national news agency of Australia employing more than 600 people. It provides
a comprehensive domestic and international news service to the Australian media, business sectors and
beyond - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
In addition to the news agency, AAP's businesses include Pagemasters, the page production outsourcing
service; Newscentre, the news monitoring and media intelligence company; and MediaNet, Australia's largest
distributor of corporate news releases. Virtually all of Australia's newspaper, broadcast and digital media
About PA Group
PA Group owns the Press Association the national news agency of the UK and Ireland.
For over 140 years, the Press Association's network of journalists has been gathering news and information
for the media. Today the company supplies everything from breaking news and showbiz interviews to real-time
sports results and weather forecasts. Other PA Group companies include international weather forecasting
business MeteoGroup and CNW Group, Canada's leading news distribution company.
PA Group employs almost 1500 people. Its headquarters are in London, UK with major operations centres in
Yorkshire, England and Mangalore and Puna, India.
PA Group Limited is a private company with 27 shareholders, including Associated Newspaper Holdings
For more information contact:
Michael Gill
Chairman
Australian Associated Press
+61 (0) 2 9322 8701
SOURCE: AAP
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