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- FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR, Page 16
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- This week TIME AUSTRALIA, the South Pacific edition we
- established with a Melbourne-based editorial staff in 1986,
- comes under the stewardship of a new editor, Michael Gawenda.
- Michael has been on a working visit to New York City for the
- past three weeks, helping edit articles for our other
- international editions and discussing South Pacific coverage
- plans with me and with Karsten Prager, the managing editor of
- TIME International. "Specifically, we want to widen coverage of
- the region by devoting more space to New Zealand and the
- emerging island nations in our area," Michael explains. "That
- will also allow us to place news about Australia in a more
- international context, which is one of TIME's great strengths."
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- During the past five years, TIME AUSTRALIA has gone from
- strength to strength, collecting a swag (as they say Down Under)
- of national journalism awards and increasing its circulation to
- 105,000. Michael, 44, is well equipped to continue this
- progress. A 1968 graduate in economics and politics from
- Melbourne's Monash University, he had a distinguished newspaper
- career in Australia and London before he joined TIME as a senior
- writer in February 1988. Eight months later, he won the Walkley
- Award, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize, with his
- first TIME cover story, an analysis of the debate over proposed
- Nazi war crimes trials in Australia. He became assistant editor
- of the edition in November 1989, while continuing to write
- articles and an occasional column called "Reflections."
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- Michael takes over from Jeff Penberthy, TIME AUSTRALIA's
- founding editor, who is stepping back at his own request to
- become Gawenda's principal deputy. Although Jeff will remain
- closely involved with TIME AUSTRALIA, helping conceive and edit
- stories, he intends to devote more time to a young family; his
- third and fourth children were born during his years at the
- editor's helm. Eventually, as Jeff told me a few months ago, the
- clasping and yelling at his knee every morning seemed to be
- drowning out all the other squeals for attention. "Michael has
- produced much of the edition's best work himself and shown the
- capacity to get the best out of others," Jeff says. "He will
- care brilliantly for an edition that I regard as another of my
- babies."
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- We are fortunate to have journalists of the quality of
- Jeff -- and now Michael -- in charge of our South Pacific
- edition.
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- -- Henry Muller
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