{"id":101030,"date":"2017-03-16T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=101030&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=101030"},"modified":"2017-03-16T16:17:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T16:17:41","slug":"uk-16-march-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/uk-16-march-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"UK &#8211; 16 March 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 Southern Daily Echo, London Evening Standard, Herald (Plymouth), HELLO!, OK!, BRIDES, Digital Spy, Spear\u2019s, PCR and The Lawyer<\/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>Gordon Sutter has been named as the new editor at the <strong>Southern Daily Echo<\/strong>.\u00a0The role will also include being editor of the Echo&#8217;s sister titles, the <strong>Hampshire Chronicle<\/strong> and <strong>Romsey Advertiser<\/strong> and their related websites as well as a portfolio of free newspapers magazines and specials.\u00a0He replaces former editor Ian Murray who stepped down two weeks ago<\/li>\n<li><strong>South Hams Newspapers<\/strong> has appointed a new editor.\u00a0Stuart Nuttall, who was the group\u2019s deputy editor, will oversee the editorial content and production of the <strong>Kingsbridge &amp; Salcombe Gazette, Dartmouth Chronicle, Ivybridge &amp; South Brent Gazette, Totnes News and the Plympton, Plymstock &amp; Ivybridge News<\/strong>, plus three titles on behalf of the <strong>Totnes Times<\/strong> series, which includes the <strong>South Devon Times<\/strong> and <strong>Brixham News<\/strong>. He replaces Steve Harvey who retired at the beginning of March<\/li>\n<li>Craig Gibbons has been appointed editor at the <strong>Malvern Observer<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ben McGrail is to join <strong>ITV News West Country<\/strong> to take up a new role covering Somerset stories for ITV. Ben will be based in the ITV&#8217;s office in Wellington. Ben is currently a presenter at BBC Somerset<\/li>\n<li>Sean Morrison has been appointed online news reporter at the at the <strong>London Evening Standard<\/strong>. He was previously a reporter at the Croydon Guardian<\/li>\n<li>Miles O&#8217;Leary has been appointed deputy head of content at the <strong>Herald (Plymouth)<\/strong>. He was previously the political reporter at the News (Portsmouth)<\/li>\n<li>Jenny Desborough has been appointed Barnet reporter at the\u00a0<strong>Barnet &amp; Potters Bar Times<\/strong>, <strong>Hendon &amp; Finchley Times<\/strong> and <strong>Edgware &amp; Mill Hill Times<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Barry Rabbetts has left his role as executive editor at the <strong>Daily Mirror<\/strong> after 13 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>\u00a0L<\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">i<\/span>festyle<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chloe Best has been promoted to online lifestyle editor at <strong>HELLO!<\/strong> She was previously online writer at the website<\/li>\n<li>Grace Cain has been appointed editorial assistant at <strong>Smallish<\/strong> and the <strong>Exclusive<\/strong> magazine portfolio<\/li>\n<li>Josie Copson has been appointed acting editorial assistant at <strong>OK!<\/strong> She was previously a features intern at Cosmopolitan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Fashion &amp; Beauty<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Suzanne Sykes has been appointed creative director at <strong>Sunday Times Style<\/strong>. She is currently creative director at Elle and takes up her new role later in the year<\/li>\n<li>There have been a couple of changes at <strong>Miss Vogue<\/strong> and <strong>Vogue<\/strong>.\u00a0Naomi Pike has been promoted from digital editorial assistant to Miss Vogue editor and social media manager. She will be responsible for the editorial content across Miss Vogue, as well as coordinating the social media strategy and partnerships across the British Vogue social channels. Additionally, Naomi will continue to edit This Week In Pictures. Also Katie Berrington has been promoted from junior digital editor to arts and lifestyle editor. She will be responsible for all entertainment, arts, travel, interiors, food and music content on the site, as well as continuing to oversee the People &amp; Parties section<\/li>\n<li>Siomha Connolly has been appointed assistant editor at <strong>The Gloss<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Olivia de Courcy has been promoted to junior content editor at <strong>BRIDES<\/strong>. She was previously online content assistant at the title<\/li>\n<li>Anna Johnstone has been appointed PA to the editor at <strong>Glamour<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Arts &amp; Entertainment<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nicola Agius has been appointed entertainment editor at <strong>Digital Spy<\/strong>. She was previously a senior TV reporter at the Mirror Online<\/li>\n<li>Kirsty Hatcher has changed her role at <strong>OK!<\/strong> and is now acting entertainment editor at the title<\/li>\n<li>Maisie Skidmore has been promoted to digital editor at <strong>AnOther<\/strong>. She was previously the online deputy editor at the site<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Food &amp; Drink<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Holly Motion has been appointed news and online editor at <strong>Imbibe<\/strong>. She was previously a senior reporter at Drinks International<\/li>\n<li>Georgina Townshend has been appointed senior reporter at <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Morning Advertiser<\/strong>. She was previously a senior reporter at the Surrey Advertiser and getSurrey.co.uk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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>Scottish Business Insider has launched a new website <strong>insider.co.uk<\/strong> to accompany the magazine. The site will cover all the sectors that make up the Scottish base, from financial services to food and drink, from technology to tourism and from mergers to markets<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Jackson has been appointed head of editorial research at <strong>Spear&#8217;s<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Technology<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Matthew Bolton has been appointed editor at <strong>T3<\/strong>. He replaces former editor Rob Carney who left earlier in March<\/li>\n<li>Rob Horgan has been appointed deputy editor at <strong>PCR<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Motoring<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dave Stubbings has started in his role as Head of Social Media at <strong>DRIVETRIBE<\/strong>. He was previously social media editor at the Mirror<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Law<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Natasha Bernal has been appointed news editor at <strong>The Lawyer<\/strong> replacing Tabby Kinder who has now left the title<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Property<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tanya Ashreena has been appointed chief finance reporter at <strong>Property Week<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including Southern Daily Echo, London Evening Standard, Herald (Plymouth), HELLO!, OK!, BRIDES, Digital Spy, Spear\u2019s, PCR and The Lawyer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":312,"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\/101030"}],"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\/312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101032,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101030\/revisions\/101032"}],"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=101030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}