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CEO Mike Sneesby quits Nine Entertainment
Just weeks after copping a massive backlash for lashing out at striking journalists, Mike Sneesby has called it quits as chief executive of Nine Entertainment.
He will also give up his board seat, with September 30 to mark his final day at the publisher and broadcaster.
Mr Sneesby became a target of ridicule ahead of the Paris Olympic Games when hundreds of striking journalists within the media group’s publishing division walked off the job for five days over a protracted pay dispute.
An email sent from the French capital at the time to union members said he was “profoundly disappointed” at the action which came “on the eve of one of the biggest news events on the planet”..
Staff from WA Today, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the Australian Financial Review and The Brisbane Times were among those who walked off the job and heavily disrupted Nine’s coverage of the first few days of the Olympics.
On Thursday, Nine said Mr Sneesby and the board considered now the right time for a transition of leadership “to take Nine into the next phase of its strategic transformation”.
Chief finance and strategy officer Matt Stanton will be appointed acting chief executive from October 1 while Nine starts the search for a replacement.
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