UK – 24 September 2015

This week’s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including the Sunday Herald, Metro, City A.M. the Times, Grazia and more.

News & Current Affairs

• Katie Hopkins has resigned from the Sun to join Mail Online
• BuzzFeed plans to expand its UK editorial team by 50% hiring 14 new staff as it forays into more localised news coverage, The Guardian reports
• Richard Walker, editor of the Sunday Herald and The National, and Tony Carlin, the editor of the Evening Times, have stepped down from their positions at the Glasgow-based news titles. Richard Walker will become a consultant editor at The National
• Ashitha Nagesh has been appointed online news reporter at the Metro
• Stephen Pullinger has left his role as tourism correspondent at Eastern Daily Press
• The Eastbourne Gazette is relaunching as a weekly title in a broadsheet format
• Dean Jones has left his role as reporter at North Wales Pioneer

Fashion, Lifestyle & Entertainment

• Laura Donaldson has been appointed editorial assistant at Heat. She was previously acting editorial assistant at Grazia
• Krystle Brady has been appointed deputy fashion and beauty editor at Top of the Pops and Girl Talk magazines
• Laura Crombie has been appointed content editor at Real Homes
• Andrew Cumner-Price has been appointed online editor for OutdoorFitness, Running Fitness and triradar.com. He was previously managing editor at Fishing News
• Stef Bottinelli has been appointed digital editor at ybw.com
• Lauren O’Callaghan has been appointed entertainment editor at gamesradar
• Georgia Farquharson has been appointed junior online writer at New!
• Archant’s Country Smallholding magazine are celebrating the title’s 40th birthday with a bumper 128-page issue and a redesign
• Gary Heatly has been appointed  web editor at The SCRUM
• Kate Gray has been appointed video producer at Gamespot UK

Business & Finance

• Simon English has been appointed deputy business editor at the Times. He was previously city editor at The Sun
• Ravender Sembhy has been appointed news editor at City A.M. He was previously business editor at the International Business Times
• Priyanka Mogul has been appointed breaking news reporter at the International Business Times UK
• Faith Glasgow has been appointed editor at Money Observer. She was previously managing editor at the publication
• Jessica Fino has been appointed online writer at Economia

Health, Science & Technology

• Charlotte Henry has been appointed reporter at Computer Business Review where she will be covering cyber security and financial technology
• Jade Fell has been appointed assistant features editor at Engineering and Technology

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