{"id":71640,"date":"2014-12-18T14:36:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T13:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=71640&amp;preview_id=71640"},"modified":"2014-12-18T14:36:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T14:36:24","slug":"uk-18-december-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/uk-18-december-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"UK &#8211; 18 December 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This week\u2019s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including the BBC, The Sun and The Huffington Post; fashion, lifestyle and entertainment titles including Digital Spy and Spindle; business and finance changes at Construction News and Ground Engineering; Health, Science &amp; Technology changes at Healthy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News &amp; Current Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kate McCann<\/strong> is to join <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/\"><strong>The Sun<\/strong><\/a> as Whitehall correspondent in January. She is currently politics reporter at <strong>City A.M<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Allan Little<\/strong>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/\"><strong>BBC<\/strong><\/a> reporter who covered the first Gulf War and the Rwandan genocide, has announced he will leave the BBC at the end of 2014<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mehdi Hasan<\/strong> is to leave his position of political director at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/\">Huffington Post<\/a> to take on a new role at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/\"><strong>Al Jazeera English<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nigel Pauley<\/strong> has been appointed acting TV editor at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/\"><strong>Sunday Mirror<\/strong><\/a>, covering <strong>Emma Pryer<\/strong>\u2019s maternity leave<\/li>\n<li><strong>Damian Kavanagh<\/strong>, BBC Controller of Daytime, and current BBC Three Project Lead has been confirmed as BBC Three Digital Controller, starting in January. <strong>Jo Street<\/strong>, Commissioning Editor Daytime, will take on the role of Acting Controller Daytime while recruitment for this position takes place<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ynyr Williams<\/strong> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radiocymru\"><strong>BBC Radio Cymru<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s new Deputy Editor. He starts his new role in the new year after seven years as series producer of Pobol y Cwm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Duncan Hooper<\/strong>, currently UK News and Sport Managing Editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\"><strong>MSN UK<\/strong><\/a>, has announced on Twitter that he is to leave the website to join <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/\"><strong>Euronews<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Business &amp; Finance<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gavriel Hollander<\/strong> has been appointed news editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnplus.co.uk\/\"><strong>Construction News<\/strong><\/a>. He was previously news editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legalweek.com\/\"><strong>Legal Week<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nadine Buddoo<\/strong> has been appointed deputy editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groundengineering.co.uk\/\">Ground Engineering<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>SpecFinish<\/strong> magazine is relocating to new offices from 2 January 2015. The new address is: Althorpe Enterprise Hub, Althorpe Street, Leamington Spa, CV31 2GB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fashion, Lifestyle &amp; Entertainment<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lucy Thackray<\/strong> has been appointed commissioning editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesundaytimes.co.uk\/sto\/public\/travel_magazine\/\"><strong>Sunday Times Travel Magazine<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Catherine Hudson<\/strong> has been promoted to beauty &amp; fashion editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.immediate.co.uk\/brands\/prima-baby-pregnancy\/\"><strong>Prima Baby &amp; Pregnancy<\/strong><\/a> and to content editor at <a href=\"juniormagazine.co.uk\"><strong>juniormagazine.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hunter Skipworth<\/strong> has left his role as technology editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.co.uk\/\"><strong>Digital Spy<\/strong><\/a>. From the 5th Jan he will be the editor of the website <a href=\"evo.co.uk\"><strong>evo.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jocksandnerds.com\/\"><strong>Jocks and Nerds<\/strong><\/a>, the style and culture men\u2019s quarterly, has launched a website focusing on news, diary updates and video interviews, as well as consumer and product-led information for readers<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eliza Frost<\/strong> has been appointed as online editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/spindlemagazine.com\/\"><strong>Spindle<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Wales Arts Review<\/strong> has announced its closure via a post on its Facebook page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Health, Science &amp; Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthy-magazine.co.uk\/\"><strong>Healthy<\/strong><\/a>, the health and wellbeing magazine published for Holland &amp; Barrett by content marketing agency The River Group, is set to launch on newsstands nationwide in the UK and Republic of Ireland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/social-media-index\/top-50-uk-blogs\/\"><b>The Top 50\u00a0UK Blogs<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our annual list of Britain&#8217;s leading blogs &#8211; see who\u2019s up, who\u2019s down, and who\u2019s knocked Guido off top spot.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/advent-calendar-2014\/\">#JingleBlogs Advent Calendar<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Week Three of Cision\u2019s #JingleBlogs advent calendar, with the country\u2019s top political, travel and street art bloggers in the spotlight. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any media changes let us know on Twitter\u00a0<a title=\"Media Updates on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Media_Updates\" target=\"_blank\"><b>@Media_Updates<\/b><\/a>\u00a0or you can email\u00a0<a title=\"Marketing\" href=\"mailto:marketing.uk@cision.com\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Priyanka Dayal<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including the BBC, The Sun and The Huffington Post; fashion, lifestyle and entertainment titles including Digital Spy and Spindle; business and finance changes at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"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":[6926,139,152,3381,3529,4019,6689,6763,6925],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71640"}],"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\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71640\/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=71640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}