UK – 19 May 2016

This week’s Media Updates covers moves and changes at news titles including City A.M., Mirror Online, Gardeners’ World Magazine, Cosmopolitan, House Beautiful, Yorkshire Post and MoneySavingExpert.com

News & current affairs

• Mark Sands has been appointed political reporter at City A.M. He was previously politics reporter at Money Marketing
• George Simpson has been appointed entertainment reporter and Anna Freeman has been appointed showbiz reporter at Express Online
• Joshua Haigh has been appointed showbiz reporter at Mirror Online. He was previously a showbiz reporter at The Sun
• Amy Cole has been appointed reporter at the Somerset County Gazette
• Ellie Cambridge has left her role as reporter at the Surrey Comet

Fashion, lifestyle and entertainment

• ABTA Magazine has been redesigned and has a new look which includes increased destination content, in-depth focus on travel-related companies and a new business travel section
• Kevin Smith has been appointed deputy editor at Gardeners’ World Magazine. He was previously a commissioning editor at the title between 2005-10 and for the last five years has been freelancing
• Hannah Nathanson has been appointed commissioning editor at Elle. She has previously been commissioning editor at ES Magazine and acting commissioning editor at Vogue
• Fiona Embleton has been appointed acting beauty editor at Cosmopolitan covering Cassie Powney’s maternity leave. Fiona was previously acting beauty editor at Fabulous
• Olivia Heath has been appointed website editor at House Beautiful. She was previously acting deputy web editor at Reveal. Additionally Amy Neason has been promoted to style assistant and features writer from her previous role as features assistant
• Lauren Page has been appointed entertainment reporter at Cumbria Live
• Lotte Brouwer has been appointed web content writer at Good Housekeeping on a 3 month contract
• Gabriella Minchella has been appointed fashion assistant at Red magazine

Business and finance 

• Gemma Tetlow has been appointed economics correspondent at the Financial Times. She was previously a programme director at the Institute of Fiscal Studies
• Angus Montgomery has left his role as editor at Design Week to join the Government Digital Service
• Duncan MacRae has been appointed editor and Georgia Sanders has been appointed content manager at Figaro Digital. Duncan was previously the chief editor at Tech Week Europe
• Faye Lipson has been appointed news reporter at MoneySavingExpert.com. She was previously deputy features editor at the Morning Star
• Mark Casci has been appointed business editor at the Yorkshire Post. He is currently head of content and takes up his new role in June
• Andrew Gold has been appointed editor at Skip Hire Magazine
•  Michael Holder has been appointed reporter at businessGreen. He was previously news editor at Air Quality News and senior reporter at letsrecycle.com

Health, science and technology

• Kirsty Styles has been appointed editor at NewStatesman Tech. She was previously a reporter at The Next Web
• Katyanna Quach has been appointed reporter at The Register