Media Moves

Bauer Media Group announces new role for Forrest

Stuart Forrest

Stuart Forrest will join Bauer Media Group as global SEO director of its publishing business. He will begin on June 12.

Bauer Media reports:

“In his new role at Bauer Media Group, he will be responsible for technical SEO, creating effective and harmonised ways of working regarding SEO actions in UK and Germany including supporting our content strategy and portfolio for audience growth through organic traffic.

“Forrest will be based in London and work closely with both Charlie Calton-Watson, Chief Digital Officer in the UK and Chief Innovation Officer Inga Leister in Germany.”

Commenting on his appointment, Forrest said:

“I’m pleased and excited to be joining Bauer at what’s clearly a key moment in its digital transformation journey. My whole career has been in media, and I’ve always enjoyed working closely with content, technology and commercial teams to reach and engage consumers with world class quality content. Bauer’s brands have a deserved reputation for quality, and this is an excellent platform from which to grow our digital audiences. I’m looking forward to working with Bauer’s teams to realise what I see as enormous growth potential.”

He will join from Future, where he recently served as senior VP, audience and marketing. He has also worked at Immediate Media Co. and Haymarket Media Group.

Forrest has a B.A. from the University of Essex.

You can congratulate Forrest on Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

Recent Posts

Bisnow seeks a commercial real estate reporter

Bisnow is the commercial real estate industry's leading, vertically integrated B2B media platform, covering North…

6 hours ago

Oden, former WSJ editor in Washington, dies at 85

Henry Oden, a former editor for The Wall Street Journal in Washington, died April 15…

8 hours ago

NY Times names Schmidt its European biz editor

New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following on Tuesday: I’m thrilled to announce…

8 hours ago

San Francisco Standard hires D’Onfro as a biz reporter

The San Francisco Standard has hired Jillian D'Onfro as a business reporter. She will start May 20.…

10 hours ago

Business Insider to begin search for new editor in chief

Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng sent out the following to the staff on Tuesday: Team,…

10 hours ago

Chiappa to cover health care for Politico in Europe

Politico Europe reporter Claudia Chiappa is now covering health care. She previously was a breaking news reporter.…

10 hours ago