{"id":72277,"date":"2015-01-22T15:32:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T14:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=72277&#038;preview_id=72277"},"modified":"2019-03-01T18:17:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T17:17:13","slug":"uk-22-january-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/uk-22-january-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"UK &#8211; 22 January 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This week\u2019s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including ITV and Sky News; fashion, lifestyle and entertainment titles including Women\u2019s Health, Good Housekeeping and The Sun; business and finance changes at The Lawyer and Legal Week; Health, Science &amp; Technology changes at MacUser.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>News &amp; Current Affairs<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/\">ITV<\/a><\/b> News has promoted <b>Tim Singleton<\/b> to deputy editor, alongside his present duties as director of newsgathering. Currently responsible for all home and foreign newsgathering operations, Singleton will work closely with editor <b>Geoff Hill<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>Business affairs editor\u00a0<strong>Zanny Minton Beddoes<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed\u00a0editor of the\u00a0<strong>Economist<\/strong>. She succeeds\u00a0<strong>John\u00a0Micklethwait<\/strong>, who has held the role for nine years, The Guardian reported<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/\">Sky News\u00a0<\/a>has appointed Kirsty Good as editor of its Business Unit.\u00a0She is joining Sky News from the BBC where she is currently assistant editor of the Economics &amp; Business Unit at Media City<\/p>\n<p>Following the\u00a0return\u00a0of Gillian Tett as US managing editor of<b> <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/aboutus.ft.com\/\"><b>The Financial Times<\/b><\/a><b>, <\/b>the publication has announced a string of senior editorial appointments to its US bureaux. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/aboutus.ft.com\/2015\/01\/20\/%E2%80%8Bfinancial-times-ramps-up-us-presence-with-a-string-of-senior-editorial-appointments\/#axzz3PMHovmKA\"><b>full list of appointments here<\/b><\/a><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Siobhan Kennedy<\/b> has been appointed business editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/\"><b>Channel 4 News<\/b><\/a>. She has been the programme\u2019s business correspondent for six years and takes up the post immediately.<\/p>\n<p><b>Gemma Davidson<\/b> has been appointed reporter at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk\/Home\/\"><b>Maidenhead Advertiser<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Katie Bond<\/b> has left her role of news editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk\/\"><b>Swindon Advertiser<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Sebastian Murphy-Bates<\/b> has been appointed reporter at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archant.co.uk\/brands\/region\/London\/\"><b>Archant\u2019s<\/b><\/a> newspaper titles including <b>Docklands &amp; East London Advertiser, Newham Recorder <\/b>and<b> Barking and Dagenham Post<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Business &amp; Finance<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><b>Tabby Kinder<\/b> has been appointed reporter at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelawyer.com\/\"><b>The Lawyer<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Nick Jackson<\/b> has been appointed deputy editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/northwest\"><b>TheBusinessDesk.com<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Hannah Uttley<\/b> has been appointed senior reporter at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortgagesolutions.co.uk\/\"><b>Mortgage Solutions<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Katherine Smale<\/b> has been appointed technical reporter at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nce.co.uk\/\"><b>New Civil Engineer<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Vern Pitt<\/b> has been appointed news editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legalweek.com\/\"><b>Legal Week<\/b><\/a>. He was previously senior reporter at <b>Building <\/b>magazine<\/p>\n<p><b>Stephen Powney<\/b> has been appointed group editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ttjonline.com\/\"><b>TTJ<\/b><\/a> and sister magazine <b>Wood Based Panels International (WBPI).<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Fashion, Lifestyle &amp; Entertainment<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Amy Lewis <\/b>has been promoted to deputy web editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodhousekeeping.co.uk\/\"><b>Good Housekeeping<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Dennis Publishing <\/b>has announced that after 18 years<b> <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bizarremagazine\"><b>Bizarre Magazine<\/b><\/a><b> <\/b>will cease publication following this month\u2019s issue<\/p>\n<p><b>Amelia Jones <\/b>has been promoted to junior writer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenshealthmag.co.uk\/\"><b>Women\u2019s Health<\/b><\/a>. She was previously editorial assistant at the magazine<br \/>\nGemma Calvert has left her role as celebrity acting assistant editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/fabulous\/\"><b>Fabulous \u2013 The Sun<\/b><\/a><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Sarah Cohen <\/b>has been promoted to beauty editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/blackhairmagazine.co.uk\/\"><b>Blackhair<\/b><\/a> magazine. She continues her previous role as hair and beauty writer for <b>Hair <\/b>magazine<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Amy Brookbanks <\/b>has been promoted to showbiz content editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowmagazine.co.uk\/\"><b>Now<\/b><\/a> magazine. She was previously acting showbiz editor<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Romy van den Broeke <\/b>has been appointed editor of<b> <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/zest-media.com\/magazines-2\"><b>Zest Media\u2019s Absolutely<\/b><\/a><b> <\/b>magazine titles including <b>Absolutely West, Absolutely Chiswick <\/b>and<b> Absolutely Richmond. <\/b>She will continue as editor of<b> Absolutely Battersea &amp; Clapham, Absolutely Putney &amp; Wandsworth <\/b>and<b> Absolutely Wimbledon<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Sue Herdman<\/b> has been appointed as the new editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceramicreview.com\/\"><b>Ceramic Review<\/b><\/a>. She replaces <b>Julian Champkin<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Health, Science &amp; Technology<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Dennis Publishing<\/b> has announced the closure of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macuser.co.uk\/\"><b>MacUser<\/b><\/a><b> <\/b>magazine after nearly 30 years<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Cision Blog<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/social-media-index\/top-10-uk-health-blogs\/\"><b>Football Blogs UK Top 10<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch up on all the transfer news with CisionUK&#8217;s Top 10 football blogs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/the-guardian-is-most-popular-newspaper-site-on-twitter-homemade-pet-food-most-tweeted-story-in-2014\/\"><b>Guardian tops UK newspaper sites on Twitter; pet food video most popular story<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Guardian tops the list of the most popular UK newspaper sites on Twitter followed by The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, according to a study. The most tweeted newspaper story of 2014 is a story that appeared in the Daily Mail on a YouTube TV show that teaches dog-owners how to make homemade pet food.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/good-outreach-is-about-being-a-good-fit-says-laura-zito-six-out-of-ten\/\"><b>\u2018Good outreach is about being a good fit\u2019 says Laura Zito, six out of ten<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spotlight with\u00a0Laura Zito, editor of\u00a0six out of ten, an online travel and lifestyle magazine on, what sets her website apart from a travel blog, best practices for PRs and bloggers, popular posts and what it takes to go viral<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/becki-enright-a-travel-blog-with-a-conscience\/\">Becki Enright: A travel blog with a conscience<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blogger Spotlight with\u00a0Becki Enright, a British Press award winning travel blogger, freelance writer and travel PR consultant at\u00a0Borders of Adventure\u00a0and Becki Enright Comms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you have any media changes let us know on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Media_Updates\">@Media_Updates<\/a>\u00a0or you can email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:marketing.uk@cision.com\">Priyanka Dayal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including ITV and Sky News; fashion, lifestyle and entertainment titles including Women\u2019s Health, Good Housekeeping and The Sun; business and finance changes at The &#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":[6689,6763,6925,6926,139,152,3381,3529,4019],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72277"}],"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=72277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121285,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72277\/revisions\/121285"}],"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=72277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}