Appointments
Owner of The Independent Evgeny Lebedev has revealed new editors for both The Independent and i.
The President of the International Federation of Journalists Jim Boumelha has been re-elected for a third term.
Local World has announced that Paul Burton has taken over the editorship of the Exeter Express & Echo.
Former Coventry Telegraph health reporter Warren Manger has landed a job on the Sunday Mirror features desk after being a finalist at the British Journalism Awards.
Newly appointed Independent on Sunday editor Lisa Markwell has pledged to maintain the paper’s independence amid moves to integrate all three Evgeny Lebedev-owned national titles.
Newsquest’s long-serving chief executive Paul Davidson is expected to retire later this year.
ITV News has confirmed that it is on the hunt for a new editor and that Deborah Turness is leaving to become president of New York-based NBC News.
She will leave in July after eight years as editor. She was both the youngest ever ITV News editor and also the first woman to hold that role.
The Times political reporter Anushka Asthana has moved to Sky News as political correspondent.
Guardian deputy editor and head of news Ian Katz has been recruited by the BBC as the new editor of Newsnight.
The Nottingham Post has appointed Mike Sassi as its new editor.
Local World has named award-winning journalist John Butterworth editor of the Black Country Bugle.
Even a cursory examination of Alison Kervin’s career credentials leaves a man consumed by inadequacy.
Telegraph Media Group has underlined its investment in online ahead of the launch of its metered paywall by signing up former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie as a columnist for Telegraph.co.uk.
MacKenzie was reputed to be paid £250,000 a year for his weekly Daily Mail column.
Mail on Sunday features editor Sian James is understood to have become the latest in a series of high-profile departures from the paper.
Regional publisher Local World today announced senior editorial shake-ups across three of its titles.
Alison Kervin has been appointed as sports editor of the Mail on Sunday.
The former editor the South Wales Evening Post has landed a new role promoting the country’s most famous poet.
Montgomerie, who is to step down as editor of the Tory website next month, told Press Gazette he wants to keep The Times’s comment pages as “diverse” as ever.
The deputy editor of the Shropshire Star is to leave the paper this week – days it was revealed that he had not been promoted to the editorship.
Peter Charlton is to stand down as editor of the Yorkshire Post after nine years in charge.
