UK – 12 November 2015

This week’s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including BBC News, the FT, Buzzfeed UK, Daily Telegraph, and more.

News & Current Affairs

• Mark Frankel has been appointed social media editor for BBC News
• David Pilling has been appointed Africa editor at the FT, while retaining his role as associate editor. Beijing bureau chief Jamil Anderlini replaces Pilling as Asia editor
• Alicia Melville-Smith has been appointed breaking news reporter/homepage editor at Buzzfeed UK
• Bethan Holt has been appointed acting fashion features editor at the Daily Telegraph, covering Sophie de Rosee’s maternity leave
• Emma O’Neill has been appointed multimedia reporter at The Scotsman
• Jack Pusey has been appointed online showbiz reporter at the Daily Star
• Charlie Frost has been appointed on-screen journalist at ITV News Channel TV
• Sophie Grubb has been appointed Abingdon reporter at the Oxford Mail
• Florence Snead has been appointed education reporter at the Cambridge News
• Sam Greenway has been appointed reporter at the Worcester News
• Robert Taylor has left the Inverness Courier where he had been editor
• David Young has been appointed Ireland editor at the Press Association

Fashion, lifestyle and entertainment

• Holly Brooke-Smith has been appointed deputy editor at Great British Food. She joins from BBC Good Food where she was feature writer
• Guy Cocker has been appointed global editor in chief of Stuff. Cocker has edited GameSpot, the UK’s biggest video games website, having launched it four years ago, while he also launched CNET
• Nathalie Marquez-Courtney, previously editor at Image, Interiors and Living, has announced via her blog that she has left the publication
• Maybelle Morgan has been appointed junior content editor at the ASOS website
• Emily Nash has been appointed royal correspondent at HELLO! She was previously a news reporter at The Sun
• Gabriella Dyson has been appointed editorial assistant at The English Garden

Business and finance

• David Hobbs has been appointed digital editor at Third Sector. He was previously executive editor at AOL Huffington Post Media Group and most recently had been freelancing at ITV News
• Noli Dinkovski has been appointed associate editor at Food Manufacture
• Moa Aarenstrup has been appointed reporter at Mortgage Solutions and its Your Mortgage website
• Karin Wasteson has been appointed senior reporter at Portfolio Advisor
• Clare Pennington has been appointed editor Agri Investor

Health, science and technology

• Craig Chapple, previously deputy editor at Develop, has now left the publication to go freelance
• HSJ has relaunched its website to create a more responsive and social experience for readers – while also promising fewer adverts.

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