UK – 13 November 2014
This week’s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including the Mail on Sunday, Wired and Local World; fashion, lifestyle and entertainment titles including FHM, OK! and Glamour; business and finance changes at PR Week, Car Dealer and The Business Travel Magazine and Health, Science & Technology changes at the Taylor & Francis Group
Also, find out what’s new on Cision’s blog including the Top 10 Toy Blogs in the UK, social media marketing tips and interviews with Steve Lipscombe, MD at RONIN Marketing, Susan Renner, author of the Luxury Columnist blog and Emma Copland, author of Emma Inks.
News & Current Affairs
- Celebrated sports journalist Patrick Collins is to retire after a career stretching back almost 50 years. Collins, now 70, announced his decision on the Sports Journalists’ Association website. He has written for the Mail on Sunday since its launch in 1982
- Film director Christopher Nolan to guest-edit Wired magazine for the December issue, The Guardian reported
- Stefan Bartlett has been appointed editor of Archant Herts & Cambs’ three weekly newspapers including the Hunts Post, Dunmow Broadcast and Saffron Walden Reporter. He starts his new role on 8 December
- Steve Anglesey has been appointed digital content director for Local World
- Aynsley Davidson has been appointed editor at The Harwich and Manningtree Standard. Aynsley succeeds Andrew Bennett in the role
Fashion, Lifestyle & Entertainment
- Fiona Ward has been appointed as editorial assistant at PRO Hair & Beauty
- The inaugural issue of Platinum Resident magazine launched on November 6
- Daisy Deane has been appointed as fashion editor at FHM, while Carlotta Constant has been promoted to deputy fashion editor from her previous position of fashion coordinator at the publication
- Kelby McNally has been appointed digital news editor at OK! Magazine
- Freddie Patmore has been appointed knitting assistant at Woman’s Weekly
- Rob Hodgetts has been appointed as the new editor at GolfMagic
- Anna Shepard has been appointed acting features editor at Glamour magazine covering Claire Matthiae’s maternity leave
- Practical Motorhome has launched a new-look, fully responsive website www.practicalmotorhome.com, which is mobile and tablet enabled
Business & Finance
- Sophia Taha has been appointed North West editor of Bdaily
- John Harrington has been appointed deputy editor at PR Week
- Colin Channon has been appointed as the new editor at the Car Dealer
- Andy Hoskins has been appointed editor at The Business Travel Magazine
- Sarah Aston has been appointed reporter at Civil Service World
Health, Science & Technology
- Lilian Anekwe has been named as the new editor for the Pharmafocus and Pharmafile brands. She joins the publishing team in December from The BMJ
- Informa Healthcare’s portfolio of 180 journals is to be managed by the Taylor & Francis Group from January 2015
Cision Blog
Making your Christmas lists? Get a head start with the kids with Cision UK’s Top 10 Toy Blogs
What Makes Some Social Media Marketing Campaigns So Successful?
What is social media marketing? How does it tie in with other branding activities? How can marketers make sure their social strategy is in sync with the overall brand objective and in line with business outcomes?
‘We don’t do PR without social media, it is what PR has become’ Steve Lipscombe, RONIN Marketing
Steve Lipscombe, managing director of creative communications agency RONIN Marketing, spoke to Cision about the changing nature of marketing campaigns and the role social media plays
Blogger Outreach: Luxury Columnist
Speedy Spotlight with Susan Renner, author of the Luxury Columnist, a blog on luxury lifestyle and living.
Blogger Outreach: Emma Inks, a London lifestyle and travel blog
Emma Copland, author of Emma Inks, spoke to Cision about what made her brave about blogging, using her blog as a platform to address ‘real’ issues and the best practices PR should follow
If you have any media changes let us know on Twitter @Media_Updates or you can email Priyanka Dayal
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