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Oct. 07, 1991: From The Managing Editor
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Oct. 07, 1991 Defusing the Nuclear Threat
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR, Page 16
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<p> This week TIME AUSTRALIA, the South Pacific edition we
established with a Melbourne-based editorial staff in 1986,
comes under the stewardship of a new editor, Michael Gawenda.
Michael has been on a working visit to New York City for the
past three weeks, helping edit articles for our other
international editions and discussing South Pacific coverage
plans with me and with Karsten Prager, the managing editor of
TIME International. "Specifically, we want to widen coverage of
the region by devoting more space to New Zealand and the
emerging island nations in our area," Michael explains. "That
will also allow us to place news about Australia in a more
international context, which is one of TIME's great strengths."
</p>
<p> During the past five years, TIME AUSTRALIA has gone from
strength to strength, collecting a swag (as they say Down Under)
of national journalism awards and increasing its circulation to
105,000. Michael, 44, is well equipped to continue this
progress. A 1968 graduate in economics and politics from
Melbourne's Monash University, he had a distinguished newspaper
career in Australia and London before he joined TIME as a senior
writer in February 1988. Eight months later, he won the Walkley
Award, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize, with his
first TIME cover story, an analysis of the debate over proposed
Nazi war crimes trials in Australia. He became assistant editor
of the edition in November 1989, while continuing to write
articles and an occasional column called "Reflections."
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<p> Michael takes over from Jeff Penberthy, TIME AUSTRALIA's
founding editor, who is stepping back at his own request to
become Gawenda's principal deputy. Although Jeff will remain
closely involved with TIME AUSTRALIA, helping conceive and edit
stories, he intends to devote more time to a young family; his
third and fourth children were born during his years at the
editor's helm. Eventually, as Jeff told me a few months ago, the
clasping and yelling at his knee every morning seemed to be
drowning out all the other squeals for attention. "Michael has
produced much of the edition's best work himself and shown the
capacity to get the best out of others," Jeff says. "He will
care brilliantly for an edition that I regard as another of my
babies."
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<p> We are fortunate to have journalists of the quality of
Jeff--and now Michael--in charge of our South Pacific
edition.
</p>
<p>-- Henry Muller
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