Economics and surfing: How Greg Hywood became the last CEO of Fairfax Media
As editor-in-chief of The Australian Financial Review in the mid-1990s, Greg Hywood travelled out to Sydney's south-west to attend the opening of the publisher's state-of-the-art printing presses on a 10.3-hectare site in Chullora.
This press plant, and its sister site in Melbourne, were the lifeblood of Fairfax, where the massive 400-page Saturday editions of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, were churned out, chock-full of advertising and job, cars and homes classifieds,
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