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Entertainment Daily
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ITN
MailOnline
PA Media
PAM Insight
Perspective Publishing
Sifted
STV
Sunday Express
The TLS
Freelance Update - Claire Coleman
Freelance Update - Hannah Westwater
Freelance Update - Sophie Wilkinson


Archant
Connor Southwell (@cjsouthwell1902) has been promoted to Chief Norwich City Reporter at Archant, working across the Eastern Daily Press, Eastern Daily News and The Pink Un. Connor can continue to be reached at the same email address.

BuzzFeed UK
BuzzFeed UK has announced Homam Ayaso as the Creative Director for food brand Tasty in the UK. Homam runs popular Instagram account The Gastronaut and has cooked alongside Gordon Ramsay, Raymond Wong and Bjorn Shen.

Convenience Store
Sarah Britton (@sarah_l_britton) is now Deputy Editor at the trade title Convenience Store. Sarah, who was previously Senior Features Writer, focuses on confectionary and soft drinks.

Entertainment Daily
Nancy Brown (@missn_brown) has been promoted to Associate Editor at Entertainment Daily. Nancy has worked for the title since 2019, most recently as Features Editor.

The Guardian
Emine Sinmaz (@emine_sinmaz) has started a Senior Reporter role at The Guardian. She was previously a Reporter at the Daily Mail, where she worked for over ten years.

ITN
Rachel Corp has been appointed as ITN’s new Chief Executive Officer. Rachel is currently Editor of ITV News, produced by ITN, where she has overall responsibility for the vision, strategy and direction for all of ITV’s award-winning national news programmes and digital output, as well as overseeing ITV News London, ITV News-produced Tonight programme episodes, current affairs series On Assignment, and special live programmes such as General Elections and Royal events. Rachel will take up her new role on September 1st, with current CEO Deborah Turness continuing to lead the organisation until then.

MailOnline
Codie Bullen (@bullencodie) recently joined MailOnline as a Showbusiness Reporter. Codie previously freelanced for the BBC and can now be reached at her new email address.

PA Media
Holly Williams has been promoted to Business Editor at PA Media. Holly joined the agency in 2007 and in 2010 was promoted to Deputy City Editor.
Additionally, Henry Saker-Clark has been promoted from City Reporter to Deputy Business Editor after three years at PA.

PAM Insight
Andrew ‘CJ’ Brown has joined PAM Insight as a Journalist to work on fundtruffle. He has previously held senior risk roles at JP Morgan Chase and RBS.

Perspective Publishing
Ross Henry Law is a new Senior Reporter working across the FSTech, Retail Tech and National Technology titles at Perspective Publishing. Having formerly served as reporter for Captive Review, the leading publication for the captive insurance industry, he is now setting his sights on the tech landscape. With a lifelong passion for technology since picking up his first copy of Stuff magazine around the age of 13, Ross is nowadays interested in hearing from financial institutions, FinTechs, retailers, e-commerce players and technology companies. He will be covering a broad range of tech including AI, data, VR, e-commerce, payments, digital transformation, cryptocurrency, NFTs, cybersecurity, and the metaverse.

Sifted
Tom Nugent (@tjnugent92) has been appointed Digital Editor at Sifted. Tom joins the team from BusinessBecause, where he was Deputy Editor.

STV
James Delaney (@_jamesdelaney) has joined STV as a Digital Journalist working on the STV News team. James, previously a Sports Writer at Edinburgh Live, would like to hear about any news with a Scottish focus.

Sunday Express
David Williamson has been promoted to Political Editor at the Sunday Express. David joined the title in early 2019 as Deputy Political Editor and prior that was Political Editor for the Western Mail and Wales Online.

The TLS
Pablo Scheffer (@scheffer_pablo) has been promoted from Trainee Journalist to Assistant Editor at The TLS. Pablo will initially be commissioning reviews related to medieval studies, as well as doing production work.

Freelance Update - Claire Coleman
Freelance features journalist, Claire Coleman has moved house. Please contact her via email for her new address for samples, press releases and deliveries.

Freelance Update - Hannah Westwater
Hannah Westwater (@hannahjtw) has left her Reporter role at The Big Issue to go freelance. She will be covering both news and features, primarily on social affairs and inequalities. Hannah can be reached via email.

Freelance Update - Sophie Wilkinson
Sophie Wilkinson has returned to freelance journalism after a year as Senior Researcher at The Center for Countering Digital Hate where she researched online misinformation and identity-based hate. She is open to commissions and tips for news, features, investigations, copywriting, research and broadcasting across a breadth of topics such as politics and policy, women’s rights, entertainment and culture, health and lifestyle.

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