UK – 3 December 2015

This week’s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including ITV News, Good Morning Britain, the FT, the Daily Express, the Daily Star, the Gloucestershire Echo and the Bournemouth Echo; lifestyle titles including  Marie Claire, Tatler, MATCH! and HELLO!; trade titles including  Management Today, Investment Week, Business Inside UK, and British Farmer and Grower; health and tech titles including Wareable and The Dentist; and more.

News & current affairs

• Kamal Ahmed is to become the BBC‘s new economics editor
• Allegra Stratton is to leave BBC Newsnight to join ITV News in the newly-created role of national editor
• Cordelia Jenkins has been appointed commissioning editor at FT Special Reports
• Tom Rawle has been appointed assistant news editor at the Daily Star Online
• Katherine Romero has been appointed online travel writer at the Express. She was previously a senior showbiz writer at Closer
• Sue Jameson has left her role as political editor at Good Morning Britain
• Dan Hobson has been appointed reporter at The Star
• Sophie Flowers has been appointed as head of content across the Gloucestershire Echo and Gloucester Citizen series. She was previously news editor at The Pharma Letter
• Steven Smith has left his role as chief reporter at the Bournemouth Echo
• Nigel Slater has been appointed editor at the Malvern Observer
• Victoria Oliphant has left her role as reporter at the Harrow Times
• Jeremy Clifford, editor of the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post, has been named as the first-ever group editor-in-chief at Johnson Press as part of a management shake-up

Fashion, lifestyle and entertainment

• Hannah Moore has been appointed acting executive fashion director at Marie Claire covering Tanya Philipson’s maternity leave
• Sophie Goodwin has been promoted from style editor to style director at Tatler
• Alexandra Wilby, inside entertainment editor and features writer at HELLO!, has returned from maternity leave
• Stephen Fishlock has been promoted from production editor to deputy editor at MATCH!
• Sue Omar has been appointed health and wellbeing columnist at Pride Magazine
• Emily Louise Overy has been appointed editor at Soul and Spirit
• Rachael Taylor has been appointed staff writer at Jewellery Editor
• Immediate Media has agreed the sale of GolfMagic and Visordown to Crash Media Group

Business and finance

• Adam Gale and Jack Torrance have been appointed web editors and Rebecca Smith web reporter at MT Management Today
• Laura Dew has been promoted from asset management correspondent to deputy news editor at Investment Week
• Cyrus Engineer has been appointed as front page editor at Business Insider UK. He was previously digital night news editor at the Daily Star and Express
• Sandra Micic has been appointed as reporter at MandateWire
• Victoria Wilkins has been promoted from deputy editor to acting editor of British Farmer and Grower and Horticulture following the departure of Emily Cole

Health, science and technology

• James Brodie has been appointed automotive and technology editor at The Week
• Erica Crompton has been appointed acting editor at Ophthalmology Times Europe
• Carlisle Baker-Jackson has been appointed web editor at LaboratoryNews. He was previously a junior reporter at Primary Care Today
• Michael Sawh has been appointed editor and Sophie Charara moved to features editor at Wareable

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