File 53: Australian Financial Review, 1974-1987

MLMSS 9894/Box 544

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1974-1987

9597911

Two files, the first file covers the period 1974-1980. The file contains memos to and from the editor, editor-in-chief, general manager and chairman about the Review. Some are complaints others refer to staffing and general day to day matters about the paper.
A guest list for the celebration in the company's auditorium of the 25th Anniversary of the paper in 1976.
Invitation to the Inaugural F.R. Luncheon, March 20, 1978.
A file February 1979 listing errors published in the paper during 1978 and 1979, the damage being done to the credibility of the paper and what is to be done to overcome the problem. A column headed "Corrections and Amplifications" was to be introduced.
Memos June-July 1979 dealing with policy for the paper, staff, advertising/editorial ratios, deadlines, supplements.
Small file of memos, copies of newspaper clippings, June/July 1979 "Criticisms of Financial Review".
Memo, November 1980, by M.V. Suich on the future of the Financial Review.
The second file covers the period 1981-1987. Copy of Executive Decisions, 1981, a study presented by the AFR.
1982 & 1984 Australian/Japan Economics Issues Symposiums. Copy of memo February 1983 to staff to participate in a one-day seminar to discuss the paper and its future.
Memos October 1983 and July 1984 on the setting up, and then closure of the F.R. Economic Policy Studies Unit

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