UK – 19 February 2015
This week’s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including The Telegraph, Huffington Post UK and BBC Radio; fashion, lifestyle and entertainment titles including Marie Claire, Men’s Fitness and woman&home; business and finance changes at The Drum and IBT UK and Health, Science & Technology changes at T3 and ComputerWeekly.com
News & Current Affairs
- Peter Oborne has resigned as chief political commentator of The Telegraph
- Paul Waugh has announced via Twitter that he will be joining the Huffington Post UK as executive editor, Politics, after the general election.
- Paul Forde has been appointed deputy editor at BBC Radio Wales
- Annie Mac has been appointed as the new presenter of Radio 1’s weekday evening new music show
- Benjamin Lee has been appointed digital contributing editor of film at the Guardian. He was previously online editor at ShortList.com
- Newsquest Media Group has appointed Diarmuid Macdonagh acting editor of the Dorset Echo and Andy Martin acting editor at the Daily Echo in Bournemouth. Diarmuid and Andy are temporarily replacing Toby Granville, who has been promoted to the role of group editorial development director for a secondment, which will initially be for 12 months
- Hertfordshire Mercury has appointed Gaby Bissett as a reporter. Gaby will be covering East Herts
- Derek Bish as been appointed deputy group sports editor at MNA Media’s Express & Star and Shropshire Star newspapers. He was previously sports editor at Bury Free Press, Haverhill Echo, Newmarket Journal, Suffolk Free Press and Diss Express
Fashion, Lifestyle & Entertainment
- Madeleine Spencer has been promoted to beauty writer at Marie Claire. She was previously beauty assistant at the magazine
- Golf Monthly is launching a free digital monthly magazine titled What’s In the Bag
- Frances Wasem has been appointed acting entertainment director at Red magazine
- Joel Snape has been appointed acting editor at Men’s Fitness. He replaces Nick Hutchings who has now left the title
- Catherine Hales has been appointed acting editor at Zest Media’s Absolutely East, Absolutely North by NorthWest and Absolutely City & Angel covering Helen Baron who is now on maternity leave. Catherine remains as editor of Absolutely South East, Absolutely Dulwich, Absolutely Greenwich & Blackheath and Absolutely Bromley & Chislehurst
- Coral Rickard has been appointed acting digital lifestyle editor at woman&home
- Abi Harman has been appointed editorial assistant at At Home magazine
- Dazed magazine has appointed Aimee Cliff as music editor and Trey Taylor has been appointed film editor
- Immediate Media Co, has launched Simply Sewing. The magazine which hit newsstands on 12 February, is priced at £5.99
Business & Finance
- Kevin Whitlock has been appointed editor at Wholesale News. He replaces outgoing editor Lisa Moore who will continue to contribute to the magazine as consultant editor
- Elsa Buchanan has been appointed foreign news reporter at International Business Times UK covering general international news with a focus on Latin America
- The Drum has promoted online editor Stephen Lepitak to the position of editor, taking over from Gordon Young who is moving to the post of editor-in-chief
- Incisive Media has announced the appointment of Lee Hartt as the group publishing director of the risk management and trading technology groups of brands
Health, Science & Technology
- James Peckham has been appointed phones & tablets writer at T3. He was previously a staff writer at Know Your Mobile
- Caroline Donnelly has been appointed datacentre & cloud editor at ComputerWeekly.com
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