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AFR BOSS is avant-garde in every sense of the word. Launched in 2000, the magazine has an enviable reputation for access to Australian leaders and top business minds. From success to business blunders, design and organisational culture and new ways of thinking, AFR BOSS is an ideas catalyst. It's a magazine that provokes dialogue with leaders and high-achievers, as well as those aspiring for success and improvement.
With a focus on well-written, provocative and innovative reportage and commentary, and leading photography, each month the AFR BOSS team puts the emerging world of work and business under the microscope. The result is a magazine with a global perspective and a source of ideas and insights.
AFR BOSS is inserted in the Australian Financial Review on the second Friday of every month. You can also access a range of material on our site including interesting web links.
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Editor Narelle Hooper |
Art director Samantha Wright |
Web Producer Cassie Griffin |
Deputy editor Catherine Fox |
Designer Shireen Liversedge |
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Subeditors Deirdre Livolsi Rose-Anne Manns |
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Reporter Brad Hatch |
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Editorial assistant Hannah Tattersall |
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Contributing writer Fiona Smith |
NARELLE HOOPER
Narelle is the editor of AFR BOSS. She is a former senior writer with the Australian Financial Review and has been a contributor to AFR BOSS since 2002. Narelle has reported on Australian business and financial markets for more than 15 years. She previously worked as finance correspondent with ABC Radio's national current affairs programs AM and PM, and was a presenter of SBS TV's The Business Show. She was BRW's political correspondent based in the press gallery at Parliament House and is a former editor of BRW's prestigious Rich 200 List. Narelle grew up in country NSW and studied journalism at Canberra University. She recently completed a Masters of Management (Financial Management) at Macquarie Graduate School of Management and is slowly making her way through an MBA.
Email nhooper@afr.com.au
CATHERINE FOX
An award-winning journalist, Catherine is deputy editor of AFR BOSS magazine. She has held several positions at the AFR, including editor of marketing and Smart Money, and court reporter. Before she joined the newspaper in 1989, Catherine worked in financial marketing and consulting in Sydney and London. She has worked for a range of large and small organisations, including two of Australia's largest banks, a university and an advertising agency. In 2004 she co-authored a book with former AFR BOSS editor Helen Trinca called Better than Sex: How a whole generation got hooked on work (Random House), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Blake Dawson Waldron Business Book of the Year award. Catherine is currently writing another book on gender and work and often speaks on the topic at seminars and conferences. She writes a weekly column for the AFR newspaper on Tuesdays called Corporate Woman, and has a BA Communications (University of Technology, Sydney) and an MA Hons (University of New South Wales). She lives in Sydney with her husband and three daughters.
Email cfox@afr.com.au
BRAD HATCH
Brad joined the Australian Financial Review in 2002 and has an honours degree in economics from Sydney University. In 2005 he received the Bert Evans Fellowship in industrial relations scholarship and wrote a labour history dissertation that examined the work and family lives of men in post-war Australia. Brad has worked in financial markets and investment research and is completing studies at Sydney Law School. He writes the popular design column, Boss Space, and has a particular interest in social, cultural and business trends.
Email bhatch@afr.com.au
DEIRDRE LIVOLSI
Deirdre has a passion for media and ideas. She has worked across a wide variety of magazines for the last 15 years, with a two-year detour into book publishing. She was involved in the launch issue of the highly successful AFR Magazine, eventually becoming chief subeditor. Having also helped launch AFR BOSS in 2000, she spent two years as deputy editor of the AFR Magazine before moving permanently to AFR BOSS, where she writes and shares the magazine's production with colleague Rose-Anne Manns. She has a BA (Hons) from the University of Sydney and thinks meetings are an invention of the Devil.
Email dlivolsi@afr.com.au
ROSE-ANNE MANNS
Rose-Anne is a subeditor and also writes for AFR BOSS. She has 20 years experience as a writer, editor and publisher, mostly with HR and management publications. She launched the award-winning WorkplaceInfo subscription website for HR professionals. She has edited several specialist newsletters including Workforce, Discrimination Alert and HR Report. She works part-time at AFR BOSS, sharing the role of chief subeditor with Deirdre Livolsi. Rose-Anne also writes the monthly Boss Coach column, and teaches journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney. Email rmanns@afr.com.au
FIONA SMITH
Fiona is a regular contributor to AFR BOSS and editor of the Work Space section of the Australian Financial Review. She has been with the AFR for more than 10 years, as editor of Special Reports and also a writer covering the hotel, tourism and property industries. Previously, she worked at The Australian, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Manly Daily. She has a BA (Communications) and her first job was as editor of an ill-fated brass, pipe and concert band magazine.
Email fiona.smith@afr.com.au
HANNAH TATTERSALL
Hannah is the editorial assistant for AFR BOSS and the Australian Financial Review Magazine. Before joining the team in 2006, she worked at The Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh before returning to Australia to work at News Limited, community-based radio station FBi, and Dynamic Business magazine. She has a BA (Media and Communications) degree from Sydney University and is completing a MA in Journalism and Creative Writing at UTS.
Email htattersall@afr.com.au
SAMANTHA WRIGHT
Sam joined AFR BOSS in its second year and has had more than 20 years' experience as a magazine art director. She has worked on popular magazine titles including Cosmopolitan, Belle, Belle Entertaining, Live this and Design Series. Her experience brings a commercial design style to AFR BOSS, and she has a special focus on high-quality photography and imagery.
Email swright@afr.com.au
SHIREEN NOLAN
Shireen is the designer for AFR BOSS and the deputy art director for AFR magazine. She began her design career at deLuxe and Associates, the editorial designers who produced the original design for AFR BOSS and AFR magazine. Shireen has a diploma in graphic design.
CASSIE GRIFFIN
Cassie
joined the BOSS team as web producer in 2004. Prior to this she
has worked as a web producer for afr.com and has also worked as
a freelance web designer. She is currently completing a BA (informatics)
degree at the University of Sydney. Cassie lived in Singapore for
a number of years and is also bilingual (Mandarin).
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