Jimmy Leach to leave digital role at Independent
Leach will take up new post with Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2010
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The Independent's editorial director for digital is to step down next year it was confirmed yesterday.
Jimmy Leach will leave the paper for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, where he will become head of digital engagement.
Leach, who was appointed as digital director at the Independent in June last year, has overseen the title's launch of a mobile website , iGoogle gadget and a political wire service with Tweetminster .
Prior to joining the Independent, Leach worked as head of digital communications for Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and for the Guardian's online team.
Leach will take up the new role in February.
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Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist, a contributor to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, co-founder of The Society of Freelance Journalists and the former editor of Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
