UK – 12 May 2016

This week’s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including Financial Times, Daily Mail, Hull Daily Mail, The Grocer, Image Interiors & Living, Eat Healthy, Crumbs Devon and techradar

News & current affairs

• Paul Chadwick has been appointed global readers’ editor at the Guardian overseeing the readers’ complaints from Guardian US and Guardian Australia. Also at the paper, Ruth Maclean has been appointed West Africa correspondent. She was previously a journalist at The Times
• Alex Barker has been appointed as Brussels bureau chief at the Financial Times. He was previously the European diplomatic editor at the publication
• David Powles has been appointed editor at the Norwich Evening News
• Linzi Watson has been appointed editor at the Lennox Herald. She was previously a reporter at the Evening Times
• Hannah Robinson has been appointed content curator at the Hull Daily Mail
• Julian Scully has been appointed reporter at the Western Telegraph
•  Gina Bebbington has left her role as chief reporter at the Northwich Guardian

Fashion, lifestyle and entertainment

• Dinah Turner has been appointed style editor at the Daily Mail. She was previously style editor at the Daily Mirror
• Catriona Gray has been promoted to commissioning editor at Harper’s Bazaar and TOWN&COUNTRY. She was previously deputy features editor at these titles
• Jezebel Mansell has been appointed editor at MODERN SPA MAGAZINE
• Susan Clark has been appointed editor at Crumbs Devon magazine
• Natalie Brown has been appointed editor at fqmagazine
• Tara Corristine has been appointed deputy editor at Image Interiors & Living
•  Nell Block has been appointed the deputy editor of the website WHO WHAT WEAR. She was previously the online fashion and beauty editor at Red
• George Berridge has been appointed digital journalist at the TLS Times Literary Supplement. He was previously the social media manager at The Sun
• Leah Cassady has been appointed features writer at Staffordshire Life
• Jennifer Meredith has been appointed staff writer at Hair magazine
• Rachael Funnell has been appointed editorial assistant at The English Garden. She replaces Gabriella Dyson who has now left the title
• Mariana Cerqueira has been appointed editorial assistant at Eat Healthy magazine

Business and finance

• Future Plc has agreed to acquire the assets of Blaze Publishing with completion due shortly. It means Future will take control over Blaze Publishing’s shooting and music sector titles including Gun Trade News and Acoustic Magazine
• Helen Thomas has been appointed business editor at BBC Newsnight. She is currently European editor at the Wall Street Journal’s ‘Heard on the Street’ column
• MVH Media have appointed Steven Jones as group editor across FOOD FRANCHISE and QuickBite magazines
• Rayhan Rafiq-Omar has been appointed proptech editor at property industry eye
• Nicholas Robinson has been promoted to food and drink editor at the Publican’s Morning Advertiser
• Beth Gault has been appointed food and drink reporter at The Grocer
• Joanna Kao has been appointed data visualization journalist at the Financial Times

Health, science and technology

• Mark Brown has left his role as editor at POCKET GAMER. Glen Fox will now be in charge of the site
• Brendan Griffiths has been appointed staff writer at techradar