Simon Crerar
Founding Editor, Buzzfeed Australia
Simon Crerar is a digital media consultant and co-founder of *PS Media, a local news startup going live in 2021.
He's been a journalist for 20+ years, beginning his career at The Sunday Times in London, where he reported the first dot com boom and bust, before covering entertainment for The Times.
In Australia he's reported for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and Far North Queensland’s mighty Cairns Post.
From 2013-19 Simon was founding editor and then GM of BuzzFeed Australia.
In 2020 he worked with five regional publishers around Australia on a nine month digital audience, engagement and revenue growth project, sponsored by Google News Initiative.
