The strange marriage between industry magazines, ProPrint and Australian Printer, fails to entice editorial staff to remain with the title.
Well-respected media types, Steve Kiernan, former ProPrint editor and Nick Bendel, journalist, will not be making the trek from North Sydney to Parramatta following the magazine merger. Kiernan is understood to have transferred with Haymarket title, CRN, to Nextmedia in the original buyout of Haymarket titles, while Bendel is just not going to work alongside former rivals at AP.
The defections bring to an end the trajectory of ProPrint as a fierce monthly rival of AP over 20 years. Originally founded and published by Don Elliott of Agency Printing, from now on it will be published in tandem with its former nemesis, according to the publishers.
Well-known industry identity, Carmen Ciappara, will continue as the advertising coordinator for ProPrint in its new guise.