ACP followed, in February 1958, with the launch of "The Observer", an "intellectual magazine" where Horne was editor and Packer was his boss. Packer allowed Horne to hire various contributors including Bruce Beresford, Peter Coleman, Robert Hughes, Barry Humphries, and James McAuley. Packer was later the talent manager for Humphries. In 1958 Packer had hired Francis James of Anglican Press to print "The Observer" but after three years and a run of "broken deadlines, overcharges, misprints, slow deliveries" Horne and Packer had taken that job away.