The sacked editor-in-chief of Fairfax Media's The Age newspaper is believed to have been offered a job as an editor-at-large with the media company.
Fairfax sources today said chief executive David Kirk had told staff that the company's management had offered Andrew Jaspan the Melbourne-based job.
It is unknown whether Mr Jaspan has accepted.
The Englishman was sacked from his position at The Age last Wednesday in the wake of Fairfax announcing it was cutting 550 jobs across the company.
But Fairfax said it was talking to Mr Jaspan about how his skills and expertise could be used elsewhere within the company.
Fairfax publishes The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Financial Review, among other regional and suburban mastheads in Australia and New Zealand.
Mr Jaspan came to The Age as editor-in-chief in October 2004, after five years as editor of Scotland's Sunday Herald, a newspaper he founded after leaving London's Fleet Street press.
Fairfax management could not be contacted to confirm the report.
