Mr Grubb replaces Mike Sassi as editor, and faces the challenge of increasing the newspaper's circulation.
He started his career as a trainee reporter on the Buckingham Advertiser and later moved to the Gloucester Citizen as assistant news editor, working up the ranks to deputy news editor and then head of content. But it was not until he moved to the Scunthorpe Telegraph that he got his 'first editor’s chair', he told journalism.co.uk.
He studied english and history at the College of Ripon and York St John and later trained at the Westminster Press Training Centre in Hastings.
His advice to any journalist is: "Never be afraid of failure. [US basketball player] Michael Jordan said: 'I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot… and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that’s precisely why I succeed...'."
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