Mark Pownall

Mark Pownall has around three decades of media experience, predominantly in business media in Perth, with a foray to the financial centre of London in the early 1990s.

Mark has a vast body of work available through the archives of Business News, including news articles and features on many subjects. He has written a regular column for Business News since he joined as Editor in 2000 and has also been a key part of the Mark My Words podcast duo with Mark Beyer since 2014. On stage Mark has interviewed many of the state's business leaders.

For most of his time at Business News Mark ran the content operations of the business and was integral to the implementation of all the company’s digital products – the twice daily email newsletters, weekly podcasts, deals database and the Data & Insights subscriber database and search engine.

In early 2017 he became CEO of Business News, a role he had for nearly three years before transitioning to his last executive position as Director of Strategy & Innovation, where he was responsible for digital transformation and new product development, including the rollout of a new subscriber-only remuneration platform.

Mark’s media career started with sports reporting while he studied for a Commerce degree at the University of Western Australia. He followed that with a post-graduate qualification in English at Curtin University.

 

Budget blues
Opinion

Budget blues

By Mark Pownall

IT’S budget time again, and this year it’s the rare double – two electioneering budgets for the long-suffering citizens of Western Australia to analyse.

11 May 2004
Horgan fights to get WET
Opinion

Horgan fights to get WET

By Mark Pownall

IN the political world it’s called being ‘on message’, and few people have managed to be as singularly focused on such an objective as Denis Horgan, arguably WA’s leading wine entrepreneur, who has unfailingly hammered

04 May 2004
Immigration makes good business sense
Opinion

Immigration makes good business sense

By Mark Pownall

I DON’T mean to bore regular readers with an endless repetition of my views on a select group of topics but I have to write a brief note to reiterate a point I have made several times about immigration.

27 Apr 2004
Palandri sets May float date

Palandri sets May float date

By Mark Pownall

MARGARET River-based winemaker Palandri has confirmed a May 13 listing on London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market, which will result in new investors taking up to 30 per cent of the comp

13 Apr 2004
Thorpe shows true worth
Opinion

Thorpe shows true worth

By Mark Pownall

NO matter what anyone says about young people today or the litigious nature of our society, every now and then something turns all that sour stuff on its head.

30 Mar 2004
The story behind Alinta’s spin
Opinion

The story behind Alinta’s spin

By Mark Pownall

I WAS quite staggered this week to find that Alinta’s general manager of corporate communications David Franklyn had quit over his former employer’s $1.69 billion bid to buy the Australian and New Zealand assets of Duke Energy.

23 Mar 2004
Exporting solutions

Exporting solutions

By Mark Pownall

A VITAL component in the establishment of export markets is promoting products and services at overseas exhibitions – but the heavy price of this process has led one Perth-based company to offer a way to make this investment more cost effective. Previous

23 Mar 2004
FTA is far from flawed
Opinion

FTA is far from flawed

By Mark Pownall

I HAVE been doing as much analysis of the free trade agreement with the US as possible and I simply can’t understand the objections that are arising from vested interests around the country, led by sugar growers.

09 Mar 2004
E&T savours growth

E&T savours growth

By Mark Pownall

PERHAPS growing a wine business is a bit like consuming a good red – you have to take the time to savour the taste.

02 Mar 2004

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