{"id":69738,"date":"2014-10-16T12:50:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T11:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=69738&amp;preview_id=69738"},"modified":"2014-10-16T12:50:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T12:50:25","slug":"uk-16-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/uk-16-october-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"UK &#8211; 16 October 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>This week\u2019s Media Updates covers changes at news titles including BuzzFeed UK, Evening Telegraph, The Guardian and Oxford Mail; fashion, lifestyle and entertainment titles including Wedding Magazine, Radio Times, and Curvaceous; business and finance changes at The Economist and Which? Travel , and Health, Science &amp; Technology changes at The Guardian. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Also, find out what\u2019s new on Cision\u2019s blog including the Top 10 Film Blogs, an interview with style blogger Karen Smith and results from the latest IPA Bellwether Report on UK marketing budget trends.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>News &amp; Current Affairs<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Jamie Ross<\/b> has been appointed political reporter at <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/?country=uk\">BuzzFeed UK<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Dawn Morrison<\/b> has been appointed deputy news editor at the<b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk\/\">Evening Telegraph<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>David Wolf<\/b> has been appointed commissioning editor of <b>The Guardian\u2019s <\/b>Long Reads section<\/li>\n<li><b>Ben Wilkinson<\/b> has left his role as crime reporter at the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/\">Oxford Mail<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Richard Bowyer<\/b>, editor of<b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokesentinel.co.uk\/\">The Sentinel<\/a><\/b>, has stepped down after 15 months at the helm<\/li>\n<li><b>Martin Tideswell<\/b>, deputy editor of <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokesentinel.co.uk\/\">The Sentinel<\/a><\/b>, \u00a0has now been promoted to editor-in-chief, with responsibility for the <b>Leek Post &amp; Times<\/b> and <b>Staffordshire Newsletter<\/b> titles, effective from October 18<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Fashion, Lifestyle &amp; Entertainment<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weddingandweddingflowers.co.uk\/\">Wedding\/Wedding Flowers &amp; Accessories<\/a> <\/b>has appointed<b> Marcia Moody <\/b>as deputy editor of the magazine titles<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.immediate.co.uk\/\">Immediate Media Co<\/a>.<\/b> has appointed <b>Stuart Forrest<\/b>\u00a0as\u00a0digital publisher, working initially on <b>Radio Times\u2019<\/b> digital portfolio. Stuart was previously publishing director for <b>Haymarket <\/b>Consumer Media<\/li>\n<li><b>Nakita Banger<\/b> has been appointed fashion editor and <b>Natasha Chilon<\/b> has been appointed celebrity news editor at <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curvaceousinc.com\/\">Curvaceous Inc<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Business &amp; Finance<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Mark Johnson <\/b>has been appointed South-East Asia correspondent of<b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/\">The Economist<\/a> <\/b>and will be based in Singapore<b>. <\/b>Mark was previously the Britain correspondent at the publication<\/li>\n<li><b>Jill Starley-Grainger<\/b> has been appointed editor of <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.which.co.uk\/publications\/magazines\/which-travel\/\">Which? Travel<\/a><\/b>. Jill was previously the commissioning editor of <b>The Sunday Times\u2019 Travel<\/b> <b>Magazine<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Health, Science &amp; Technology<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Charles Arthur<\/b> will be leaving his role as technology editor at <b>The Guardian<\/b>. He will continue to write for the paper on an ongoing contractual basis<\/li>\n<li><b>Nate Lanxon<\/b>, editor of <b>WIRED.co.uk<\/b>, will edit <b>Ars Technica UK<\/b> when it launches in Britain in 2015, he announced on his <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.natelanxon.com\/nates-blog\/i-will-become-editor-in-chief-of-ars-technica-as-it-launches-in-britain\">blog<\/a><\/b><b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Cision Blog<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/social-media-index\/film-blogs-uk-top-10\/\"><b>Film Blogs UK Top 10<\/b><\/a><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Taking a cue from the BFI London Film Festival, Cision UK brings you the Top 10 film blogs!<\/p>\n<p><b><a title=\"Permanent Link: Bellwether Report: UK firms raise marketing spends\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/good-news-for-comms-as-uk-firms-raise-marketing-spends\/\">Bellwether Report: UK firms raise marketing spends<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s good news for the communications industry as UK firms raise marketing spends, albeit marginally for PR budgets.<\/p>\n<p>The Q3 2014 IPA Bellwether Report, published today, revealed that marketing budgets were revised up for the eighth consecutive quarter, and to the third highest level in the survey\u2019s history, as companies remain bullish about the business outlook<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/twitter-reacts-as-cision-and-vocus-unite-under-the-cision-brand\/\">Twitter reacts as Cision and Vocus unite under the Cision brand<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Cision and Vocus have officially combined under the Cision brand and (we\u2019re happy to report) the news has been welcomed by the global PR and communications industry. Social media has been buzzing with the news so we\u2019ve gathered some key reactions (including a Simpsons meme and a Beyonce mention)\u00a0that sums up the overall sentiment behind the merger<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/calling-all-prs-listen-to-vicki-day-on-best-practices-for-effective-blogger-outreach\/\">Why one influential lifestyle blogger thinks PRs need to change their approach to blogger outreach<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The nature of blogging has changed -What started out as real-life encounters and experiences have now got price tags attached to words and references. Join lifestyle blogger Vicki Day for a 30-minute webinar as she explains why<b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.gotomeeting.com\/register\/523076897\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018PRs need to change their attitude towards bloggers\u2019<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/blogger-outreach-style-sunrise\/\">Blogger Outreach: Style Sunrise<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speedy Spotlight with\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Karen Smith<\/span>, author of the style blog,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Style Sunrise<\/span>. She spoke to us about the mix of topics that make up her blog, the best practices for bloggers working with PR and hitting the 1,000 follower milestone on Bloglovin\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you have any media changes let us know on Twitter\u00a0<\/strong><a title=\"Media Updates on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Media_Updates\" target=\"_blank\"><b>@Media_Updates<\/b><\/a><strong>\u00a0or you can email\u00a0<\/strong><a title=\"Marketing\" href=\"mailto:marketing.uk@cision.com\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Priyanka Dayal<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Media Updates covers changes at news titles including BuzzFeed UK, Evening Telegraph, The Guardian and Oxford Mail; fashion, lifestyle and entertainment titles including Wedding Magazine, Radio Times, and Curvaceous; business and finance changes &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":64746,"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":[139,151,152,2881,2883,4236,4400,5222,6689,6763],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69738"}],"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\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}