Media scions get training on jobs
Bryant Stokes appointed executive assistant
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Last week, Bryant Stokes, the 22-year-old son of Seven Network owner and former part-owner of MGM Kerry Stokes was appointed executive assistant to David Aspinall, managing director of Seven's Melbourne station.
"He has joined me to learn about the TV business," Aspinall tells an Oz newspaper. "He is getting an all-round education about the business."
That's a path that's paying off for 28-year-old Andrew Gordon, who, after 10 years in various jobs at WIN Corp., was recently appointed to the newly created position of deputy chair of the rural TV and radio group belonging to his father, Bruce Gordon, Paramount's former international president.
It's a similar path to the one followed by James Packer, who went on to take over the reins of his father Kerry's Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd., which controls Oz's biggest TV web and magazine publishing house and has interests in Oz feevee and America's New Regency.
Of course, Oz is where News Corp. heir apparent Lachlan Murdoch got his start, at one of Rupert Murdoch's regional publishing houses, before taking the helm of News Australia in Sydney and overseeing the newspaper, music, television and film interests of News Australia. He now also commutes to New York to look after News Corp.'s American publishing interests.
Even Ireland's Tony O'Reilly thought Oz was a good place to groom his son Cameron, who started at a small rural O'Reilly operation, before the Irish conglom's Oz offshoot APN New & Media, which runs Oz's largest regional publishers and radio web, as well as advertising and feevee interests.
Last week, the 35-year-old ended his stint at APN to take some time out in France.
