Eric Beecher

Eric Beecher is a former editor-in-chief of the Herald & Weekly Times and editor of the Sydney Morning Herald. He has worked as a journalist on The Age, the Sunday Times and the Observer in the UK, and the Washington Post.

In 1985, at 33, he became the youngest editor of the Sydney Morning Herald before being approached by Rupert Murdoch to become editor-in-chief of the Melbourne Herald and Weekly Times newspaper group.

Eric was one of the founders of The Text Media Group.