{"id":100237,"date":"2017-02-16T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=100237&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=100237"},"modified":"2017-02-16T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T14:57:26","slug":"uk-16-february-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/uk-16-february-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"UK &#8211; 16 February 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Media-Updates-New-Featured.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99500 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Media-Updates-New-Featured.jpg\" alt=\"Media-Updates-New-Featured\" width=\"760\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Media-Updates-New-Featured.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Media-Updates-New-Featured-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Media-Updates-New-Featured-705x264.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Media-Updates-New-Featured-450x169.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Media-Updates-New-Featured-500x188.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This week\u2019s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including Daily Mirror, Scottish Sun, Daily Express, Reading Chronicle, Romford Recorder, Gardens Illustrated, Men\u2019s Running, REFINERY29, FourFourTwo and Professional Engineering<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><strong>News &amp; current affairs<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A number of new editorial appointments have been made across Archant&#8217;s London and Hertfordshire portfolios:\u00a0Lindsay Jones has been appointed editor of the <strong>Romford Recorder<\/strong>, <strong>Ilford Recorder<\/strong> and <strong>Wanstead and Woodford Recorder<\/strong> portfolio, and will also be responsible for news-based specialist publications and products. Lorraine King becomes editor of the <strong>Barking &amp; Dagenham Post<\/strong>, <strong>Newham Recorder<\/strong> and <strong>Docklands &amp; East London Advertiser<\/strong> portfolio.\u00a0Beth Wyatt has also been appointed senior news feature writer across the Barking-based titles.\u00a0In Hertfordshire, Nick Gill has become editor of <strong>The Comet<\/strong> and <strong>Royston Crow<\/strong> portfolio, and Nina Morgan takes on the role of editor of the <strong>Herts Advertiser<\/strong> and <strong>Welwyn Hatfield Times<\/strong> portfolio<\/li>\n<li>Samantha Harman has been appointed group editor for Newsquest Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. Currently deputy editor at the Dorset Echo, Samantha will take responsibility for the <strong>Reading Chronicle<\/strong>, the <strong>Bucks Free Press<\/strong>, <strong>Slough Observer<\/strong> and <strong>Bracknell News<\/strong> and\u00a0digital platforms. Samantha will take up her role on 6 March<\/li>\n<li>Newsquest launched the <strong>Lewes &amp; South Coast Argus<\/strong> on 9 February. The free title will be published every Thursday and follows on from the launch of the Mid Sussex Argus in January<\/li>\n<li>Alex Wellman has been appointed deputy digital news editor at <strong>Sun Online<\/strong>. He was previously assistant news editor at the Daily Mirror<\/li>\n<li>Richard Wheatstone has been promoted to assistant news editor at the <strong>Daily Mirror<\/strong>. He was previously chief online reporter at the title<\/li>\n<li>Jake Murtagh has been appointed sports news editor at <strong>Mirror Online<\/strong>. He was previously a sports reporter at the Daily Mirror<\/li>\n<li>Aidan Scott has been appointed online sports reporter at the <strong>Scottish Sun<\/strong>. He was previously a reporter at the SWNS<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Elizabeth Archer has been appointed women&#8217;s feature writer at the<strong> Daily Express<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Shona Gossip has been appointed news editor at the <strong>Press and Journal (Aberdeen)<\/strong>. She was previously assistant news editor at the title<\/li>\n<li>James Slack has left his role as political editor at the <strong>Daily Mail<\/strong> to take up a new role as\u00a0Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s official spokesman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><strong>Fashion, lifestyle and entertainment<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lucy Bellamy has been appointed editor at <strong>Gardens Illustrated<\/strong>. She takes up her new role in March.\u00a0Lucy joins Gardens Illustrated from Bauer Media where she was a member of the launch team and Gardening Editor at Modern Gardens<\/li>\n<li>Wesley Doyle has been appointed editor at <strong>Men&#8217;s Running<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tom Rowley has been appointed editor at <strong>Healthy For Men<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tim Auld has been appointed acting deputy editor at the Financial Times&#8217; <strong>How To Spend It<\/strong> magazine<\/li>\n<li>George Garner has been appointed deputy editor at <strong>Music Week<\/strong>. He was previously deputy editor at Kerrang!<\/li>\n<li>Susie Coen has been appointed showbiz reporter at the <strong>Daily Mail<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Joe Brewin has been promoted to UK digital editor at <strong>FourFourTwo<\/strong>. He was previously digital features editor at the title<\/li>\n<li>Jane McGuire has been appointed digital editor at <strong>Mother&amp;Baby<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There have been a couple of changes on The Resident portfolio. Madeleine Howell has been named assistant editor and will be working on south London titles <strong>SW Resident<\/strong>, <strong>The Guide Resident<\/strong> and <strong>Living South Resident<\/strong> as well as writing London-wide features across the portfolio and online. She is keen to hear about south London stories, including celebrity interview opportunities, arts and culture, homes and interiors, food and travel. Also, Bethan Andrews\u00a0has been named assistant editor, working on flagship title <strong>The Resident<\/strong> and <strong>The Hill Resident<\/strong>.\u00a0Bethan was previously editorial assistant and features writer at the titles<\/li>\n<li>Henry Tobias Jones has been promoted to features editor at <strong>Gentleman&#8217;s Journal<\/strong>. He was previously a features writer at the title<\/li>\n<li>Georgia Murray has been appointed fashion and beauty writer at <strong>REFINERY29<\/strong>. She was previously a junior writer at ASOS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><strong>Business and finance<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jon Kennard has been appointed editor at <strong>TJ Online<\/strong>. Debbie Carter is now editor in chief at <strong>TJ Training Journal<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Sophie Knight has been appointed digital features editor at <strong>PARKERS<\/strong>. She was previously web editor at Mother&amp;Baby<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Link has been appointed assistant editor at <strong>Digital Textile<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Jocelyn Timperley has been appointed policy writer at <strong>CarbonBrief<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><strong>Health, science and technology<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ian Dean has been appointed editor at the <strong>Official Playstation Magazine<\/strong>. He replaces former editor Matthew Pellett who has now left the title<\/li>\n<li>Sarah-Jane Lampe has been appointed editor at <strong>New Pathways<\/strong> magazine<\/li>\n<li>Katia Moskvitch has been appointed chief editor at <strong>Professional Engineering<\/strong>. Katia was previously technology editor at Engineering &amp; Technology<\/li>\n<li>Kevan Christie has been appointed health correspondent at <strong>The Scotsman<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including Daily Mirror, Scottish Sun, Daily Express, Reading Chronicle, Romford Recorder, Gardens Illustrated, Men\u2019s Running, REFINERY29, FourFourTwo and Professional Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":99505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100243,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100237\/revisions\/100243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}