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People Moving 09/03/11 – Press & Media

People Moving 09/03/11 – Press & Media

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People Moving 02/03/11 – Press & Media

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People Moving 23/02/11 – Press & Media

People Moving 23/02/11 – Press & Media

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People Moving 09/02/11 – Press & Media

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People Moving 26/01/10 – Press and Media

Take A Break, the UK’s top-selling women’s weekly, is set to name Rebecca Fleming as its new editor. Fleming, who joined the mag as a features writer in 1998 and went on to become editor of Bella, takes over from the departed John Dale. (Source: Press Gazette)

The News of the World’s free magazine, Fabulous, has promoted Joely Carey and Rachel Richardson to the roles of editorial director and assistant editor respectively. (Source: Press Gazette)

Aberdeen Evening Express editor Damian Bates has left to take the same position at the Press and Journal, one of the UK’s oldest papers. (Source: Press Gazette)

Buzz, the Sun’s new TV magazine, has hired Terri White as its new editor. She previously occupied the same title at Shortlist, the weekly free magazine. (Source: Press Gazette)

The Health Reporting Training project (HearRT), a new international health journalism course set up by the Athens-based Institure of Preventiive Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Health, has hired British university lecturer Dr John Lister. (Source: journalism.co.uk)

Paul Cooney has been made managing director of Capital Radio Scotland. The former Radio Clyde MD will be tasked with leading the station’s team. (Source: The Drum)

Laura Tannenbaum has been appointed brand marketing manager for Absolute Radio. She moves from her position as marketing manager at the Sun. (Source: Media Week)

John Furbisher has stepped down from his role as editor of the Sheffield Star. He leaves after just over a year in the role, amongst a shake-up at the paper’s publisher Johnston Press. (Source: Press Gazette)

Football pundit Andy Gray has been sacked by Sky after a media storm over alleged sexist comments concerning a female referee assistant and a Sky Sports colleague. (Source: The Guardian)

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People Moving 19/01/10 – Press and Media

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People moving 22/12/10 – Press and Media

The Daily Mirror has promoted Jason Beattie to political editor. He replaces Bob Roberts who is taking up a senior role with Labour leader Ed Miliband’s communications team. (Source: Press Gazette)

The BBC has appointed Zai Bennett, previously director of digital channels and acquisitions, as controller of BBC3. (Source: MediaGuardian)

AOL has signed up X Factor judge Dannii Minogue as a contributing editor to its ‘glossy’ women’s website MyDaily.com. It has also made Noel Penzer, who has worked with Minogue before, its vice-president of business development in Europe. He moves from Warner Music Group. (Source: BrandRepublic)

Heat magazine editor Sam Delaney has stepped down to work on a book and a new television show for the US cable TV channel Comedy Central. Heat’s executive editor, Lucie Cave, will stand in for Delany until a replacement is found. (Source: MediaGuardian)

Carine Roitfeld, the eminent editor of French Vogue magazine, is resigning after 10 years in the role “to do something different”. (Source: MediaGuardian)

The Wall Street Journal Europe has replaced its editor, Patience Wheatroft, with the Daily Telegraph’s Tracy Corrigan. (Source: BrandRepublic)

Conde Nast has appointed Kate Reardon as editor of Tatler magazine. She moves over from sister title Vanity Fair, where she was contributing editor for 11 years. (Source: MediaGuardian)

Entertainment news website Digital Spy has recruited David Moynihan from NME.com to be its editor. (Source: MediaGuardian)

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People moving 15/12/10 – Press & Media

Louise Benson has been appointed director of the Edinburgh international television festival. She joins from Emap, where she was media events director. She starts in January, replacing Amy Brown. (Source: MediaGuardian)

George Entwistle is to stand in as BBC Vision director, while the Corporation looks for a long-term replacement to Jana Bennett. Entwistle is a contender for the permanent position. (Source: MediaGuardian)

Shelagh Fogarty is to leave her role as presenter of BBC Radio 5′s breakfast show. She is moving to replace Gabby Logan on the afternoon show. (Source: MediaGuardian)

Ian Clark is leaving News International following the failure of the company’s digital experiment Project Alesia. Clark was heading-up the UK version of Alesia, but will now leave after 10 years of service at News International. (Source: Brand Republic)

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"The Daily Mail is being far too modest… the runaway success of the website owes very little to piggy-backing on 'the strengths of the newspaper'."


The Media Blog‘s Will Sturgeon credits Mail Online’s picture desk as the “engine room” of its booming growth after comScore named it the world’s biggest newspaper site.


(Source: The Media Blog)