Nine’s communications director the latest out the door

Nine’s top communications and public relations executive has been made redundant one week into acting chief executive Matt Stanton’s tenure and ahead of the imminent public release of the independent report into cultural issues at the media company.Victoria Buchan will leave Nine at the end of November after Stanton, the company’s former chief strategy and financial officer, deemed her position surplus to requirements. Nine is currently searching for a new regulatory lead after those matters were previously led by former chair Peter Costello.Nine’s top communications executive Victoria Buchan will depart after nearly 15 years.Credit: Joe Armao“Today Vic and I have agreed terms for her to leave the business as we go about restructuring the corporate roles to create a much-needed Regulatory specialist lead for the business,” Stanton said in an internal note on Monday.Her departure is the latest in a growing line of exits at the media company that owns the Nine Network,…