{"id":81732,"date":"2015-10-15T12:17:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T12:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=81732&#038;preview_id=81732"},"modified":"2015-10-23T15:48:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T15:48:25","slug":"uk-15-october-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/uk-15-october-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"UK &#8211; 15 October 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This week\u2019s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including<\/strong><strong> the Financial Times, Independent, Metro, Times and more<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News &amp; Current Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The BBC&#8217;s <\/strong>director of television<strong> Danny Cohen <\/strong>has stepped down from his role<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stephen Fry\u00a0<\/strong>is to step down as presenter of<strong> BBC2\u2019s <\/strong>long-running QI and will be replaced by former News Quiz host, <strong>Sandi Toksvig, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2015\/oct\/14\/stephen-fry-step-down-presenter-bbc-qi?CMP=share_btn_tw\">Guardian<\/a> reports<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Brett Leppard <\/strong>has been appointed social media editor at <strong>co.uk. <\/strong>He was previously the deputy social media editor at the<strong> Independent<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sam Wallace <\/strong>has been appointed chief football writer at the<strong> Daily &amp; Sunday Telegraph. <\/strong>He was previously the chief football correspondent at the <strong>Independent<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>David Young <\/strong>has been promoted to Ireland editor at the<strong> Press Association<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Matt Wilson <\/strong>has been appointed West Bromwich Albion reporter at the<strong> Express &amp; Star<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Ricketts <\/strong>has resigned as the long-serving sports editor of\u00a0<strong>Worcester News. \u00a0<\/strong>Paul retires from a career\u00a0 in journalism that spans almost 50 years<\/li>\n<li><strong>Steven Brown <\/strong>has been appointed reporter at<strong> Watford Observer<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fashion, Lifestyle &amp; Entertainment<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lara Tutton <\/strong>has been appointed junior editorial assistant at the<strong> FT Weekend&#8217;s <\/strong>magazine,<strong> How to Spend It<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Natalie Hammond <\/strong>has been appointed fashion assistant at the<strong> Times<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Caitlin Jones <\/strong>has been appointed fashion assistant at <strong>Marie Claire<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Katherine Parkes <\/strong>has been appointed junior writer at<strong> Top of the Pops<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Miranda Thompson <\/strong>has been appointed junior commissioning editor at <strong>YOU magazine &#8211; Mail On Sunday<\/strong>. She was previously senior writer at <strong>Woman&#8217;s Weekly<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lizzy Dening <\/strong>has been promoted to senior features writer and acting web editor from her previous role of features writer at<strong> Yours <\/strong>magazine<\/li>\n<li><strong>CANDID magazine <\/strong>has appointed<strong> Annie Biziou <\/strong>lifestyle editor and<strong> Dominic Preston <\/strong>film editor<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rianna Fry <\/strong>has left her role as editor at<strong> Soul &amp; Spirit<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Immediate Media Co <\/strong>has launched<strong> Today\u2019s Quilter<\/strong>, a magazine on traditional quilting. The new title will be accompanied by a blog<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todaysquilter.com\/\">todaysquilter.com<\/a> <\/strong>and will be edited by<strong> Jenny Fox-Proverbs<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Olivia Slack <\/strong>has been appointed features writer for <strong>Guild News, Nail file<\/strong> and <strong>Irish Beauty<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Business &amp; Finance<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rebecca Shahoud<\/strong> has been appointed senior correspondent (law and regulation) at <strong>Professional Pensions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Amelia Schwanke <\/strong>has been appointed reporter at<strong> International Tax Review<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rebecca Jones<\/strong> has been promoted to deputy editor at <strong>Money Observer<\/strong>. She was previously funds writer at the title<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joshua Thurston <\/strong>has been appointed reporter at <strong>Citywire Wealth Manager<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Matt Mace <\/strong>has been appointed reporter at <strong>Edie<\/strong>.<strong>net<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Health, Science &amp; Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Imagine Publishing<\/strong> launches <strong>Gadget<\/strong>, a technology magazine which will go on sale from 22 October 2015<\/li>\n<li><strong>Katherine Byrne<\/strong> has been appointed smartphones editor at <strong>Expert Reviews<\/strong> and <strong>Computer Shopper<\/strong>. She was previously senior reporter at the titles<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alysia Judge<\/strong> has been appointed editor at <strong>com<\/strong>. She was previously news editor at <strong>POCKETGAMER.biz<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rosalie Starling<\/strong> has been promoted to assistant editor at <strong>Hydrocarbon Engineering<\/strong>. She was previously editorial assistant at the title<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Vuelio Blog<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Political-blogs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-81664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Political-blogs-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Political blogs\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/social-media-index\/top-10-uk-political-blogs\/\">Political Blogs UK Top 10<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/vuelio-blog-awards\/\">Announcing the inaugural Vuelio Blog Awards<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/journalist-spotlight-marc-walker-daily-star-sunday\/\">Journalist Spotlight: Marc Walker, Daily Star Sunday<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/overview-of-the-crisis-communications-webinar-with-kathryn-kelly\/\">Overview of the Crisis Communications Webinar with Kathryn Kelly<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/twitter-as-a-pr-platform\/\">Twitter as a PR Platform<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/spotlight-with-top-food-and-recipe-blogger-dominic-franks-belleau-kitchen\/\">Spotlight with food and recipe blogger Dominic Franks, Belleau Kitchen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/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:priyanka.dayal@vuelio.com\" target=\"_blank\"><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 Financial Times, Independent, Metro, Times and more News &amp; Current Affairs The BBC&#8217;s director of television Danny Cohen has stepped down from &#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":[5694,6689,7069,139,152],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81732"}],"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=81732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81732\/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=81732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}