{"id":75746,"date":"2015-04-30T13:37:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T12:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=75746&amp;preview_id=75746"},"modified":"2015-04-30T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T13:37:24","slug":"uk-30-april-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/uk-30-april-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"UK &#8211; 30 April 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>This week\u2019s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including<\/b><b> MailOnline and the Press Association; <\/b><b>fashion, lifestyle and entertainment titles including Brides magazine and The Country Living; business and finance changes at just-drinks and Airline Fleet Management; and health, science and technology changes at Digital Spy and SC Magazine<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>News &amp; Current Affairs<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Hayden Smith<\/b> has been appointed home affairs correspondent at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressassociation.com\/\"><b>Press Association<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Ben Clerkin<\/b> has been appointed UK associate editor (global) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\"><b>Mail Online<\/b><\/a>. He joins from the <b>Daily Telegraph<\/b> where he was deputy news editor<\/li>\n<li><b>Malcolm Warne, <\/b>the long standing editor of the<b> <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk\"><b>Darlington &amp; Stockton Times<\/b><\/a>, has stepped down from his post after 23 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Fashion, Lifestyle &amp; Entertainment<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Sarah Hourahane<\/b> has been appointed online content editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridesmagazine.co.uk\/\"><b>Brides<\/b><\/a> magazine<\/li>\n<li><b>Tom Chapman<\/b> has been appointed style editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/sosogay.co.uk\/\"><b>So So Gay<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Maria Bell<\/b> has been appointed acting editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sofeminine.co.uk\/\"><b>SoFeminine<\/b><\/a><b>,<\/b> covering for <b>Ursula Dewey&#8217;s<\/b> maternity leave<\/li>\n<li><b>Kitty Corrigan<\/b> has been appointed acting features editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.countryliving.co.uk\/\"><b>Country Living<\/b><\/a>, covering for <b>Ruth Chandler<\/b> while she is on maternity leave<\/li>\n<li><b>Cliff Joannou<\/b> has been appointed deputy editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/attitude.co.uk\"><b>Attitude Magazine<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcthomson.co.uk\">DC Thomson<\/a><\/b> has appointed <b>Gareth Whelan<\/b> editor-in-chief of its children\u2019s magazine portfolio, <b>Boys\u2019 Magazines<\/b><b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Business &amp; Finance<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Andy Morton<\/b> has been promoted to news and insights editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.just-drinks.com\/\"><b>just -drinks<\/b><\/a>. He was previously a reporter on the website<\/li>\n<li><b>Mary-Ann Baldwin <\/b>has stepped down as editor of<b> <\/b><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afm.aero\/\">Airline Fleet Management<\/a><\/b><b> <\/b>magazine<b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Health, Science &amp; Technology<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Jane McCallion<\/b> has been appointed senior staff writer at the websites <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/\"><b>IT PRO<\/b><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/\"><b>CloudPro<\/b><\/a>. She was previously a staff writer at <b>PC Pro<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Tom Reeve<\/b> has been appointed senior reporter at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmagazine.com\/\"><b>SC Magazine<\/b><\/a>. He was previously editor at <b>SecurityNewsDesk<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Stephen Harris <\/b>announced via Twitter that he<b> <\/b>has been appointed commissioning editor at<b> <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/uk\"><b>Conversation UK<\/b><\/a><b>, <\/b>covering science, technology and health<\/p>\n<p><b>Matt Hill<\/b> has been appointed deputy editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hearst.co.uk\"><b>Digital Spy<\/b><\/a>. He was previously editor at <b>T3 <\/b>and<b> Gizmodo UK<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Cision Blog<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/social-media-index\/luxury-travel-blogs-uk-top-10-cision\/\"><b>Luxury Travel Blog UK Top 10<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Making plans for the bank holiday weekend? Make them BIG with tips from UK\u2019s top 10 luxury travel blogs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/introducing-cisions-inaugural-social-pr-study-2015\/\"><b>Introducing Cision\u2019s inaugural \u2018Social PR Study 2015\u2032<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PRs ignoring you on social media? Almost 40 per cent of PRs never respond to media requests made on social media &#8211; just one of the eye-popping findings from Cision\u2019s latest research, conducted in association with Canterbury Christ Church University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/are-prs-less-dependent-on-journalists-because-of-social-media\/\"><b>Are PRs less dependent on journalists because of social media?<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0Cision UK\u2019s Social PR Study 2015, \u00a0the majority of PRs are happy with their relationship with media professionals yet nearly half of all respondents said that they are less reliant on journalists because of social media. A further 34% of PRs agreed outright that journalists were no longer as important to them because of social media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/uk-pr-gets-mojo-back-as-fee-incomes-cross-1bn-mark-prweek-top-150-pr-consultancies\/\"><b>UK PR gets \u2018mojo\u2019 back as fee incomes cross \u00a31bn mark: PRWeek Top 150 PR consultancies<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The UK PR industry has got its \u2018mojo\u2019 back, concludes PRWeek after a study showed that fee incomes earned by top agencies crossed the \u00a31bn mark in 2014, a 10% increase from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Top 150\u00a0PR consultancies list, which ranks agencies according to fee income, found that when adjusted for inflation, the real growth in 2014 was nearly double the real growth for 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/blogger-spotlight-kristina-suzanne\/\"><b>Blogger Spotlight: Kristina Suzanne<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interview with\u00a0Kristina Suzanne, a lifestyle blogger. Kristina spoke to us about what it takes to start a blog, how she measures the success of her site and the five best practices that bloggers should follow for better outreach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/blogger-spotlight-heather-nixon-of-beauty-and-nothingness\/\"><b>Blogger Spotlight: Heather Nixon, Of Beauty and Nothingness<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interview with\u00a0Heather Nixon, author of the beauty, lifestyle and fashion blog,\u00a0Of Beauty and Nothingness. Heather spoke to us about her blog\u2019s design, working with brand marketers and the five best practices every PR should follow for better blogger outreach<\/p>\n<p><b>If you have any media changes let us know on Twitter\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Media_Updates\"><b>@Media_Updates<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0or you can email\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"mailto:marketing.uk@cision.com\"><b>Priyanka Dayal<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including MailOnline and the Press Association; fashion, lifestyle and entertainment titles including Brides magazine and The Country Living; business and finance changes at just-drinks &#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":[152,3391,5694,6689,139],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75746"}],"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=75746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75746\/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=75746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}