Appointments
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.
Former BSME Mark Boxer Award winner Andy Cowles is leaving IPC Media as part of a restructuring programme.
The Daily Mirror has announced the hire of Mail on Sunday TV columnist Ian Hyland.
Conservative Home editor Tim Montgomerie is standing down from his position to become editor of the comment pages of The Times next month.
Former Newsnight editor Peter Rippon is to take on the “significant challenge” of BBC Online Archive editor four months after he was forced to step aside over his role in the Jimmy Savile documentary scandal.
Daily Telegraph news editor Matthew Bayley is leaving the broadsheet to become head of specialist journalism at Sky News.
Jonathan Wall has repaced Adrian Van Klaveran as controller of BBC Radio 5.
The managing editor of The Independent, i, and The Evening Standard is set to become the next chairman of the London Press Club, the body has announced.
