Glenn Dyer writes:


So what’s happening at Fairfax in Sydney, where there seems to have been a change of heart over who will be or won’t be writing the financial gossip columns in The Sydney Morning Herald and the Financial Review?

Several weeks ago I reported that Angus Grigg, who writes the Rear Window column in the AFR, was to be replaced by James Chessell, who had been filling in for Christine Lacy when she was away from the CBD column on the SMH.

Ms Lacy’s departure to the Nine Network as director of communications saw the CBD spot up for grabs. The chat from Fairfax was that James Chessell had resigned to go to the AFR because he and his partner, who’s also a journalist, had not wanted to work in the same area and she was planning to return to SMH finance.

Now reports from the SMH say Chessell wasn’t ever going, and that he’ll be Lacy’s permanent replacement on CBD. Just what happens at the AFR is unknown, but as late as last week they were expecting Chessell to be taking over from Angus Grigg.