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Guardian appoints Washington Post digital executive Caroline Little

Little will become a special adviser to the Guardian's US team
Posted by Laura Oliver at 23/07/08

BBC names Erik Huggers as Future Media & Technology controller

Former Microsoft executive will replace outgoing chief Ashley Highfield
Posted by Laura Oliver at 18/07/08

Telegraph axes casuals, creates 40 new editorial jobs

A raft of new full and part-time positions will be created despite recent cutbacks by the group
Posted by Laura Oliver at 14/07/08

Oliver Luft leaves Journalism.co.uk

News editor to take up reporting post with MediaGuardian
Posted by Laura Oliver at 11/07/08

Mail Online names Simon Schnieders as search strategy head

Schnieders has been appointed as search engine optimization manager by the site
Posted by Laura Oliver at 11/07/08

Future shuffles staff for relaunch of totalfilm.com

Aubrey Day will also oversee Total Film compact print edition launch in August
Posted by Oliver Luft at 09/07/08

Digital CEO Andy Hart leaves Associated Newspapers

Hart parts company after six years with the publisher, because of 'organisational changes'
Posted by Laura Oliver at 08/07/08

Michael Pelosi named as new Newspaper Society president

Northcliffe Media director takes over from Russell Whitehair
Posted by Joel Gunter at 02/07/08

Johnston Press online executive John Bradshaw to retire

Bradshaw, who set up the publisher's digital division, will retire on Friday
Posted by Laura Oliver at 24/06/08

BBC's social media guru Robin Hamman leaves

Head of the BBC's blog network to become a social media consultant with Headshift
Posted by Laura Oliver at 19/06/08

Liveblogging has digital recruitment potential, says RBI user content specialist

CoveritLive and liveblogging tools could offer recruits and employees an insight into new digital roles, says Andrew Rogers
Posted by Laura Oliver at 13/06/08

Daily Record promotes assistant editor Ewan Watt to new digital role

Watt is named digital editorial director for the Daily Record, Scottish Sunday Mail and Business7
Posted by Laura Oliver at 12/06/08

Guardian appoints cross-platform heads for integration push

Guardian News and Media has named five editorial heads for national news, international news, sport, business and consumer
Posted by Laura Oliver at 11/06/08

Ex-CNET UK director Tom Bureau joins Magicalia

Bureau's appointment is first in a series of digital hires for the magazine publisher
Posted by Laura Oliver at 11/06/08

Cosmopolitan names Chris Deary as online community manager

Deary joins the Hearst Digital title from MYSun, where he was community executive
Posted by Laura Oliver at 27/05/08

FT.com appoints Rob Grimshaw as new managing director

Appointment follows quickly after the departure of senior digital executive Ien Cheng to Google Europe
Posted by Oliver Luft at 21/05/08

Tia Dunn joins Hachette Filipacchi's online division

Dunn appointed as multimedia editor to oversee video across Elleuk.com and Sugarscape.com brands
Posted by Clare Fisher at 15/05/08

Trinity Mirror Regionals appoints new head of multimedia

David Higgerson, assistant editor (digital) of the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo, to take on the role
Posted by Oliver Luft at 25/04/08

Current appoints UK director of new media

Rebekah Billingsley joins the peer-to-peer news network from Bauer, where she launched Heatworld.com
Posted by Laura Oliver at 24/04/08

ProPublica bolsters editorial team with five appointments

The investigative reporting website appoints Eric Umansky, Susan White, Sheri Fink, Christina Jewett,Abrahm Lustgarten and Joaquin Sapien
Posted by Laura Oliver at 16/04/08

Hachette Filipacchi appoints Anna Jones as acting digital director

Head of marketing Jones takes control of editorial teams on the publisher's digital titles
Posted by Laura Oliver at 15/04/08

BBC digital boss Ashley Highfield to lead Project Kangaroo

Highfield leaves his post as director of future media and technology to head up the on-demand video project Kangaroo
Posted by Laura Oliver at 14/04/08

Telegraph appoints new head of community and rebuilds blogs

Iain Martin named new head of comment and community, while newspaper announces blogs and My Telegraph platforms will be rebuilt
Posted by Laura Oliver at 11/04/08

Glasgow Herald creates group multimedia editor role

Evening Times picture editor John Young is first appointee to the new position of group multimedia editor
Posted by Cathy Relf at 09/04/08

Trinity's Business7 expands with recruitment website

Business7, the free weekly newspaper and website, has launched an online recruitment and job advertising website for the business industry in Scotland
Posted by Laura Oliver at 04/04/08

Guardian names Damian Carrington as environment website editor

Carrington, interactive editor at the Financial Times, named editor of soon-to-be revamped environment site
Posted by Laura Oliver at 03/04/08

Trinity Mirror Regionals appoints Chris Bunyan as digital director

Bunyan will join publisher from Virgin Media to lead growth of regional web titles
Posted by Laura Oliver at 31/03/08

Trinity's Scottish division hires digital journalism team

Nine journalists will be recruited to work solely online for Trinity's Scottish division - Scottish and Universal Newspapers
Posted by Laura Oliver at 17/03/08

Hearst digital names Sara Stephenson as publisher of online titles

Stephenson will oversee two Hearst websites - handbag.com and allaboutyou.com
Posted by Laura Oliver at 28/02/08

Archant paper in talks over plans to merge staff on two regionals

Proposals exist for a merger of reporting staff at the Ipswich Evening Star and East Anglian Daily Times as part of a cost-cutting exercise
Posted by Laura Oliver at 27/02/08

Scott Trust expands bursary scheme with online journalism element

Scheme extended from six to ten places with new awards for broadcast journalism and technology courses
Posted by Oliver Luft at 20/02/08

Haymarket names Joe Minihane as online news editor of Stuff.tv

Future Publishing's Joe Minihane joins rival publication Stuff.tv as online news editor
Posted by Laura Oliver at 18/02/08

Johnston Press appoints former AOL head to digital strategy role

Lori Cunningham, former vice president of strategy with AOL UK, joins Johnston Press as digital strategy director
Posted by Laura Oliver at 15/02/08

Trinity names Mike Hill as new editor of South Wales Echo

Former head of multimedia for Trinity Mirror Regionals Mike Hill has been appointed editor of the South Wales Echo
Posted by Laura Oliver at 14/02/08

Times Mobile appoints Brigid Callaghan as its new editor

Brigid Callaghan becomes editor of Times Mobile
Posted by Nick Bowring at 13/02/08

Telegraph names former AOL man as marketing director

Barry Flanigan will take up his new cross-platform role for Telegraph Media Group in March
Posted by Laura Oliver at 29/01/08

Georgie Russell joins ITN On as political correspondent

Russell replaces recently retired veteran Peter Murphy across online and radio platforms
Posted by Laura Oliver at 28/01/08

Trinity Mirror buys The Career Engineer Limited for £1.9m

Trinity Mirror acquires the engineering jobs website
Posted by Laura Oliver at 15/01/08

Guardian hiring editor ahead of major revamp of environment website

New editor will be tasked with making the site ‘the leading source of environmental news, comment and advice on the internet’
Posted by Oliver Luft at 14/01/08

Former Scotsman.com general manager named head of new media at SMG

Alistair Brown appointed head of new media by SMG with responsibility for STV website
Posted by Laura Oliver at 08/01/08

Sun Online assistant editor joins ITV.com

Mark Webber will be joined at ITV by Kate Bradshaw, IMG's director of new media production
Posted by Oliver Luft at 08/01/08

News of The World appoints Tim Allan as digital sports editor

The newspaper's deputy sports editor will take up his new role in the New Year
Posted by Oliver Luft at 10/12/07

Handbag.com's Tracey Lea Sayer to leave for NoTW magazine

The fashion director will join the Sunday paper in the New Year
Posted by Oliver Luft at 07/12/07

NUJ report into multimedia highlights 'great concerns' amongst journalists

Three quarters of respondents reported that integration has brought increased workloads
Posted by Oliver Luft at 06/12/07

Ruth Brownlee named new director of AOP

New appointee to take up her role at the end of January, next year
Posted by Oliver Luft at 05/12/07

IPC Media appoints handbag.com's Alicen Stenner to digital role

Stenner will take up her new role as digital director at IPC Southbank in February
Posted by Laura Oliver at 04/12/07

Future boosts film portfolio with new group publisher

Simon Maxwell promoted to newly created role across Future's online and print film titles
Posted by Laura Oliver at 21/11/07

Guardian appoints two technology directors for 24/7 news push

Outside appointee Mike Bracken and current GNM IT director Andy Beale to take up new roles ahead of the Guardian’s planned move to new headquarters
Posted by Oliver Luft at 14/11/07

FT.com appoints first head of video

Former Reuters Video editor Richard Edgar joins FT.com
Posted by Laura Oliver at 12/11/07

PA appoints special correspondent to boost multimedia political coverage

Group appoints Telegraph's former political editor George Jones for more diverse online coverage
Posted by Laura Oliver at 19/10/07