{"id":79543,"date":"2015-08-27T13:54:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T13:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=79543&#038;preview_id=79543"},"modified":"2015-08-27T14:51:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T14:51:06","slug":"uk-27-august-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/uk-27-august-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"UK &#8211; 27 August 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This week\u2019s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including<\/strong><strong> The Sunday Times, Daily Star, Sky News <\/strong><strong>; fashion, lifestyle and entertainment titles including Marie Claire, Yours and woman&amp;home and business and finance changes at Legal Week and Mining Journal. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News &amp; Current Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mark <\/strong>Palmer has been appointed Scottish rugby correspondent at<strong> The Sunday Times. <\/strong>The publication has also appointed<strong> Michael Glackin <\/strong>as Scottish business correspondent<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marc Walker<\/strong> has been promoted to deputy news editor at <strong>Daily Star Sunday<\/strong>. He was previously a reporter at the <strong>Daily Star<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Joey Jones<\/strong>, deputy political editor at <strong>Sky News<\/strong>, has announced via Twitter that he will now be leaving the company after 16 years<\/li>\n<li><b>Annabelle Dickson<\/b>, political editor for <strong>Eastern Daily Press<\/strong> and <strong>East Anglian Daily Times<\/strong>,\u00a0has been promoted to\u00a0the newly-created role of group political editor at <b>Archant<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bill Tanner<\/strong> has left his role as senior reporter at <strong>Hereford Times<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Pippa Allen-Kinross <\/strong>and <strong>Ben Weich <\/strong>have both been appointed reporters at <strong>Epsom Guardian<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Donald Martin <\/strong>has been appointed head of publishing for consumer entertainment at<strong> DC Thomson. <\/strong>He was previously editor-in-chief of<strong> DC Thomson Newspapers<\/strong>, editor of the<strong> Sunday Post <\/strong>and the<strong> Weekly News. Neil O\u2019Brien, <\/strong>who has held the position of head of publishing since 2012, is leaving the company to take up a new post as publisher for a London-based specialist firm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jane Kirby<\/strong>, health editor at the <strong>Press Association<\/strong>, has now returned from maternity leave. Meanwhile, <strong>Neil Lancefield<\/strong> has been appointed transport correspondent at the service<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark White<\/strong> has been appointed news and sports reporter at <strong>Lancashire Evening Post<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fashion, Lifestyle &amp; Entertainment<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sophie Tighe <\/strong>has been appointed digital news and features editor at <strong>Marie Claire <\/strong>and<strong> Charlotte Clark <\/strong>has been appointed beauty assistant at the publication<\/li>\n<li><strong>Katharine Wootton<\/strong> has been promoted to news writer from her previous position of editorial assistant at <strong>Yours <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Charlie Bell<\/strong> has been appointed acting deputy fashion editor covering <strong>Aja Wallis&#8217;<\/strong> maternity leave at <strong>Reveal<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sara Huntington<\/strong> has been appointed commissioning editor at <strong>Simply Crochet<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Luba Gadjourov<\/strong> has been appointed assistant digital food editor at <strong>woman&amp;home<\/strong> and <strong>goodtoknow<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ali Plumb<\/strong> has been appointed entertainment reporter at <strong>Digital Spy<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mary Forester<\/strong> has been appointed web editor at <strong>Hairdressers Journal International<\/strong>. She replaces <strong>Rachael Gibson<\/strong> in this role<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Business &amp; Finance<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ruth Green<\/strong> has been appointed multimedia journalist at <strong>IBA Global Insight<\/strong>. She was previously features editor at the <strong>Mining Journal<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kiran Stacey<\/strong> has been named energy correspondent at the <strong>Financial Times<\/strong>. He is currently political correspondent at the title<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rachel Boagey<\/strong> has been appointed assistant editor at <strong>Professional Engineering<\/strong>. She was previously at <strong>Automotive World<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark Allen Group (MAG) <\/strong>is to acquire the 124 year old\u00a0<strong>Optician<\/strong>, from <strong>Reed Business<\/strong> <strong>Information (RBI).<\/strong> The deal is due to complete in September 2015<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rose Walker <\/strong>has been appointed as reporter at <strong>Legal Week<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cision Blog<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-79538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FB-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"FB\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/social-media-index\/top-10-uk-pr-blogs\/\">PR Blogs UK Top 10<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/neville-hobson-on-why-he-is-still-number-1\/\">Neville Hobson on why he\u2019s still #1<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/what-facebooks-donate-now-button-means-for-charity-comms\/\">What Facebook\u2019s Donate Now button means for Charity Comms<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/how-long-should-brands-sit-on-a-crisis\/\">How Long Should Brands Sit On A Crisis?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/news-uk-hosts-news-academy-summer-school-for-20-aspiring-journalists\/\">News UK hosts News Academy Summer School for 20 aspiring journalists<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/me-myself-travel\/\">TAKE 5 with a ME MYSELF &amp; Travel\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you have any media changes let us know on Twitter\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Media_Updates\"><strong>@Media_Updates<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0or you can email\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:marketing.uk@cision.com\"><strong>Priyanka Dayal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including The Sunday Times, Daily Star, Sky News ; fashion, lifestyle and entertainment titles including Marie Claire, Yours and woman&amp;home and business and finance &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":78803,"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":[139,152,5694,6689,7069],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79543"}],"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=79543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}