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Amazon has hired Alex Hole as its advertising sales director. Hole was previously a digital executive at News International. (Source: Media Week)

Telegraph Media Group has switched Mike Allen, who has been with the publisher since 2008, to the new role of head of Olympic sales. (Source: Media Week)

Nick Emery has risen to the position of chief exec at Mindshare Worldwide, after previous incumbent Dominic Proctor took on the new role of president of WPP’s GroupM. (Source: Media Week)

M&C Saatchi has hired Jeff Brooks from Euro RSCG New York to spearhead the revival of its New York office, which merged with its Los Angeles office in 2008. (Source: Brand Republic)

A reshuffle of Yahoo Europe’s top brass has seen the departures of James Tipple, vice-president for marketing, and Andrew Cocker, marketing director. Robert Bridge, former business-to-business marketing director, has been promoted to the role of senior director and head of marketing for the region. (Source: Brand Republic)

Npower has hired Debbie Britton as its director of customer marketing, with a mandate to “rebuild trust” in the brand. She was previously marketing director at insurer Axa UK. (Source: Brand Republic)

Richard Desmond’s Health Lottery has appointed Andrew Kliman for the newly created position of head of communications. He joins the organisation from Dr Foster Intelligence. (Source: Brand Republic)

The COI’s former deputy chief executive, Peter Buchanan, has joined HMDG as a consulting director. (Source: Brand Republic)

The UK and Ireland branch of MTV Networks has brought in Jo Bacon as its vice-president of marketing, creative and publicity. (Source: Brand Republic)

Saatchi & Saatchi has promoted Leigh Thomas, its head of account management, to UK managing director, replacing Sydney-bound Michael Rebelo. (Source: Brand Republic)

MediaCom UK has filled its vacant chief operating officer role with the appointment of Josh Krichefski from the company’s European branch. (Source: Brand Republic)

Nick Clegg has hired his sixth, and final, special adviser in the form of Veena Hudson. She will use her experience as Monitor’s head of media and stakeholder relations to create better links to Whitehall departments. (Source: Brand Republic)

Mindshare has hired Nick Adams as its new head of digital development, which it hopes will boost its digital output. (Source: Brand Republic)

Virgin Atlantic has hired Joy Doyle to the role of international PR manager. Doyle joins from National Express, where she was head of media. (Source: Brand Republic)

MPG Media Contacts has hired Hamid Habib to take on the position of managing partner. He will head Catalyst, its new strategy and research unit. (Source: Brand Republic)

News Corporation’s senior comms professional Matthew Anderson – widely known as James Murdoch’s right hand man – has left to “pursue other opportunities”. All of News Corp’s senior comms team have now reportedly left since the phone hacking crisis. (Source: Brand Republic)

Michael Wolff, the biographer of Rupert Murdoch, is to join the Guardian as a columnist. He will write about tech, media, publishing and politics. (Source: MediaGuardian)

Bauer Media has hired Dilupa Nanayakkara from News International to take on the role of account director for some of its radio stations. (Source: Media Week)

Future Publishing has hired Nick King from News International to become its digital commercial director. He will start on 6 February. (Source: Media Week)

Future has also appointed Keith Walker from IPC, to take on the role of head of audience development for its game and film online properties. (Source: Media Week)

Johann Hari has declined the opportunity to return to the Independent as a columnist following his suspension for plagiarism, saying that the “unimpeachably decent people” that stood by him at the paper should not have to take any flack for his mistakes. (Source: The Drum)

Tom Curley will retire from his positions of president and chief executive of the Associated Press when a successor is found later this year. The former USA Today president joined AP in 2003 and oversaw its expansion into “critical hotspots” including North Korea and Pakistan and lead its transformation into a multimedia digital news organisation. (Source: Press Gazette)

Telegraph Media Group has promoted Charles Starmer-Smith to head of travel, replacing Graham Boynton. (Source: Press Gazette)

Tony Horne has landed his own show on Sundays for UTV Media, which will air across Wire FM, Tower FM and Wish FM from 5 February. (Source: Press Gazette)

Restaurant chain Nandos has hired Cian McKenna-Charley to take up the role of head of brand comms. (Source: PR Week)

Molly Hooper-Aldridge is moving from Slam PR, the company she helped found, to become global CEO at M&C Saatchi PR. (Source: PR Week)

O2′s head of PR, Nicola Green, has been promoted to the role of director of comms and reputation for Telefónica UK. (Source: PR Week)

Alcohol Concern has recruited Emily Robinson to the role of director of fundraising and campaigns. (Source: PR Week)

Jenny Grey has been handed the role of executive director for Government communication on a permanent basis. (Source: PR Week)

BP has hired George Trefgarne to the role of director of external affairs. (Source: PR Week)

Global tobacco company Philip Morris International has appointed Julie Soderlund to the role of director of regulatory comms. (Source: PR Week)

Nichola Sharpe is leaving her role as external comms director of Lastminute.com, to an unspecified new role. (Source: PR Week)

Adrian Read, UK publicist for Lady GaGa, is leaving the Darling Department to start his own consultancy, Inside/Out. He will take GaGa’s business with him. (Source: PR Week)

Nintendo UK has lost its marketing director Dawn Paine, as she leaves to join Universal Pictures UK to take on the role of vice-president of marketing. (Source: PR Week)

Innocent Drinks is losing its marketing director, Thomas Delabriere, as he plans to leave in the coming weeks. He’ll be replaced by Douglas Lamont. (Source: Brand Republic)

News International has lost two sales executives. Michael Craig has left his role of agency account director and Dickie Smith is set to depart from his role as senior strategy executive. (Source: Brand Republic)

Clear Channel Outdoor has promoted William Eccleshare to the new role of chief executive of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings. (Source: Brand Republic)

Dan Levitt has left his role as head of strategy for Mail Newspapers. He is set to leave in the coming months. (Source: Brand Republic)

Carl Read has joined Channel 4, taking on the role of digital lead. He moves from MEC, where he was head of digital strategy. (Source: Brand Republic)

Sainsbury’s has hired Sarah Warby as its new marketing director. (Source: Brand Republic)

JCDecaux has hired James Roles to the position of director of client development. (Source: Brand Republic)

Jon Elsom has joined the agency Bray Leino, taking up the role of executive creative director. (Source: Brand Republic)

ACE, the insurance group, has hired Darragh Gray to take up the role of director of comms and marketing for the Europe, Middle East and North Africa regions. (Source: PR Week)

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Jerry Yang has resigned from his role on Yahoo’s company board, after 16 years of service. One of the co-founders of the service, Yang’s last few years as chief executive were mired with  less-than-sensible decision making, including turning down a near-£30bn takeover offer from Microsoft in 2008. (Source: The Guardian)

Richard Deverell is leaving his role as a BBC executive to join Ofcom. Deverell, who spent 20 years at the Corporation, will join Ofcom’s strategy and economic department as a director. (Source: The Guardian)

The BBC has hired its first science editor, in the form of David Shukman. The newly-created role is a result of an independent review into the Corporation’s science coverage. Shukman has been a long-serving correspondent for the BBC. (Source: The Guardian)

ITV has given specialist editor roles to two of its journalists. James Mates will take on the role of ITV News Europe editor, and Penny Marshall will become social affairs editor. (Source: Press Gazette)

Jimmy Leach has joined Portland to help bolster its online corporate reputation exercise. Leach moves from his role as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s head of digital diplomacy. (Source: PR Week)

Tony Blair has lost the services of his political director, Matthew Doyle. He has worked with Blair since 2005, and leaves his role now to pursue other opportunities. (Source: PR Week)

In other Tony Blair related news, his former spokesman, Godric Smith, has taken up a role overseeing the Government’s media relations operation for the Olympics. He will take charge of a 100-strong temporary press office during the event. (Source: PR Week)

Newgate PR has hired Martin Greig to the role of associate director. A senior producer on BBC Radio 4′s Today programme, Greig will join the agency in March. (Source: PR Week)

Sally Irvine has joined Chandler Chicco Agency to take up a role on its senior leadership team. She moves from Novartis, where she was a comms director. (Source: PR Week)

Richard Medley has been hired by Nexus PR to become its new managing director. Currently holding the same role at Spider PR, Medley will take up his new role at the beginning of February. (Source: PR Week)

Game and Gamestation have lost their head of UK PR. Neil Ashurst has left the role to become head of consumer brands for the film and entertainment PR agency Romley Davies. (Source: PR Week)