From March 2020 to 2021, during his tenure, it increased its weekday readership by 14%,[5] and its Sunday readership by 28%,[5] though some have argued that it has gone in a more tabloid direction under his leadership,[6] and the staff has been reduced.[6]
In April 2024, De Caglie was appointed Seven West Media's director of news and current affairs and editor-in-chief.[7]
In 2020, De Ceglie won a Walkley Award for Headline, Caption or Hook, in the category of all media, for his "You only had one JobKeeper" line.[1] Prior to this, he had already received two Walkleys.[1] Additionally, he serves as a trustee of the Channel 7 Telethon trust,[8] a charitable organisation owned by Seven West Media (which also in turn owns WAN).
^ ab"Australian Newspaper Readership, 12 months to March 2021". Roy Morgan. March 2021. Archived from the original on 26 January 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2021. The West Australian Mar 2020 - Readership (000's): 292 | Mar 2021 - Readership (000's) - 339 | "West Australian Saturday [The Weekend West] | Mar 2020 - Readership (000's): 387 | Mar 2021 - Readership (000's) - 409" | "Sunday Times | Mar 2020 - Readership (000's): 284 Mar 2021 - Readership (000's) - 394"
^Craig McPherson steps down from Seven, successor named Mumbrella 29 April 2024
^"About". Telethon 7. Seven West Media. Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2021. Anthony De Ceglie | Trustee | Anthony De Ceglie is the Editor in Chief of West Australian Newspapers. Before taking up this role in 2019, he was the deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph in Sydney and spent time on secondment to New York as part of News Corp's international development program. He has won multiple Walkley Awards and his first jobs were at rural newspapers in Collie and Mandurah before joining The Sunday Times and PerthNow where he was deputy editor.
