The Times hires Hickson as assistant news picture editor

The Times has tapped Alex Hickson to serve as an assistant news picture editor. Recently, he served as a deputy picture editor at The Independent. Before that, Hickson held the posts of picture researcher, senior picture researcher and assistant picture editor at Metro.co.uk. He also reported for Northern & Shell in London. Hickson has a […]

The Times hires Hughes as homepage reporter

Seren Hughes has joined The Times as a homepage reporter. Recently, she was at MyLondon, where she was a reporter and senior reporter. There, Hughes covered breaking news, crime, housing, health, the cost of living crisis and local issues. She was a multimedia journalism trainee at News Associates. Hughes graduated from the University of York. […]

Marshall joins The Times as assistant news editor

The Times has tapped Francesca Marshall to serve as an assistant news editor. She joined from The Telegraph, where she recently served as acting weekend news editor. During her more than five years at The Telegraph, Marshall held the posts of content editor, news reporter, night news editor, assistant news editor and morning news editor. […]

Scotland’s Times, Sunday Times may merge

The following excerpt was sent out from dailybusinessgroup.co.uk: News UK is proposing to turn The Times Scotland and Sunday Times Scotland into a single seven-day operation in a move that may have implications for jobs. The Times and Sunday Times newsrooms in London currently share certain desks, including travel, property and sport, and have journalists working across both titles. The merging of operations followed a […]

The Times appoints Richardson homepage editor

The Times has tapped Julia Richardson to serve as a homepage editor. Recently, she served as an associate head of features at News UK. Previously, Richardson worked at The Times from April 2016 to November 2017 as a commissioning editor. She was a digital features editor at The Sun. Richardson graduated from the University of […]

Fish to join The Times of London as retail editor

The Times of London has hired Isabella Fish as a retail editor. Fish will begin in January. Since January 2019, Fish has been with Drapers, most recently serving as deputy editor. She also held the posts of news reporter, deputy news editor, acting news editor and news editor. She interned at and was a news […]

Addison swaps London’s Times for Evening Standard

The Evening Standard has appointed Harriet Addison features director. Addison joined from The Times, where she worked for more than 14 years. Her roles at The Times included editorial assistant, Saturday Times editorial assistant, weekend commissioning editor, weekend assistant editor, and recently, deputy editor – Weekend. Addison has a B.A. from the University of Leeds. […]

Bello swaps the Times for the NY Times

Ademola Bello has joined The New York Times’ newsroom development and support team as an editor for training and support, based in London. Recently, Bello was a data and interactive journalist at The Times and Sunday Times. As per the Times: “His work will cover a broad range of NDS projects including rolling out training […]

Gallagher named editor of The Times

The following excerpt has been sent out: Tony Gallagher has been named as the new editor of The Times, replacing John Witherow who stood down yesterday to become chairman of Times Newspapers. Gallagher, 58, who has served as deputy editor since 2020, has started in the role with immediate effect. It marks his third national newspaper editing job. He led The Daily […]

Mead to join “Times Money” as deputy money editor

Holly Mead, deputy consumer editor at The Sun, will join “Times Money,” which is from The Times and The Sunday Times, as deputy money editor. Mead begins in September. Previously, she was at Morningstar, where she worked as a senior editor and editorial manager, EMEA. She worked as a money reporter for the Sunday Times […]