Eric Beecher

Who is Eric Beecher?

Eric Beecher is an Australian journalist, editor and media proprietor. He was editor of the Sydney Morning Herald for four years and for three years was editor-in-chief of the Herald and Weekly Times group.

In 1990, he founded Text Media, which he sold to Fairfax Media in 2003 for $66 million.He purchased Crikey in 2005 for $1 million from its founder Stephen Mayne, a former Liberal staffer, now a local council politician. He is a shareholder in Australian Independent Business Media, publisher of the online magazines Business Spectator and Eureka Report. In 2007, he received a Walkley Award for journalistic leadership.