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Daily Mail promotes Leatham to deputy science editor

Xantha Leatham

The Daily Mail has tapped Xantha Leatham to serve as deputy science editor, where she will cover scientific development and research. Recently, Leatham was a news reporter.

She joined the Daily Mail in September 2016. Before that, she was a journalist at Deadline News. Her wrote on courts, quirky case studies, politics and celebrities; she also contributed to human-interest and picture stories.

Leatham has a bachelor’s degree from Lancaster University and a M.A. from the University of Sheffield.

You can congratulate Leatham via Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

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