Penny Mulvey
31 October 2024
The team at The Melbourne Anglican reluctantly farewelled our editor of the last three years, Elspeth Kernebone, in October.
Our loss is Anglican Overseas Aid’s gain. Ms Kernebone has accepted a position as Marketing and Communications Manager.
She has been a dedicated editor, teacher, writer, photographer, manager and change agent.
Learning her craft at the coal face, Ms Kernebone’s first journalistic job was with the Braidwood Times. From there she moved to the Bendigo Advertiser and had the opportunity to communicate breaking news as the COVID pandemic unfolded.
In Bendigo she learned that telling stories changes lives. Ms Kernebone reflected on the family of severely disabled baby Allie who was granted a NDIS plan after the paper drew attention to their wrongful rejection from the scheme.
She has always focused on building strong connections with the relevant audience. While in Bendigo, those connections enabled her to break the story on the RMIT Flight School moving to the city’s airfield.
In the time Ms Kernebone was at the helm of The Melbourne Anglican, its online reach grew to more than 260,000 website visits and over 60,000 Facebook readers, a remarkable increase of 808 per cent from the previous year.
As editor, she sought to ensure that The Melbourne Anglican told the stories of the people of the church. And looking at the magazine’s covers of the past year, it has done exactly that. Thank you Elspeth.
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