Telegraph Media Group has announced the appointment of Hugh Dougherty as news editor for the Sunday Telegraph.
Dougherty was previously deputy news editor at the Daily Mail and before that news editor at the Evening Standard
Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, Ian MacGregor, said in a release that he was “delighted” that Dougherty would be helping to set the news agenda at the Sunday paper, describing him as a “superb news editor”.
The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) has today brought out its revised figures for national newspaper circulation in the UK, reducing the headline circulations of titles including the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and Financial Times in the light of an investigation into ‘bulk copies’ distributed by Dawson Media Direct, for the London Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday and Sunday Telegraph.
The UK newspaper circulation body revised the figures because audit trails for ‘bulks’ did not comply with ABC rules.
A brief summary of today’s ABC results:
A more in-depth analysis of these results is available on Guardian.co.uk.
Editorial outsourcing firm Pagemasters has announced a partnership with the Canadian Press to provide a range of production services, including design, sub-editing and headline writing, to titles in the US and Canada.
The new division, Pagemasters North America, will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Canadian Press, which already provides pagination services to Canadian daily newspapers including The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star.
The move by Australian Associated Press (AAP), the national news agency of Australia, which owns the editing company, follows a contract with Telegraph Media Group announced in January to provide sub-editing services for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph’s weekend supplements.
In a previous article in The Sunday Morning Herald, Pagemasters managing director Bruce Davidson commented on how useful a time zone difference is for the editing process: “The Telegraph can deliver pages at the end of their day, and when they come in the next morning we have completed the work.”
In today’s release, Davidson said: “The launch of Pagemasters North America is a major development and I believe one which has the potential to lead to significant changes in the editorial production model for US and Canadian newspapers.
“We will be heavily involved with The Canadian Press in setting up editorial production centres in North America, working closely with newspaper publishers as they grapple with the radical changes sweeping the industry.”
Neville Hobson flags up the Sunday Telegraph and Mail on Sunday’s reporting of Twitter. “Unfortunately, both papers have done it in a way that demonstrates the journalists’ (and their editors’) utter lack of understanding of the social and business drivers underpinning much of the growth in use of Twitter,” Hobson writes.
Guy Ruddle has been appointed as the Telegraph‘s new head of visuals, according to a release from the publisher.
In his new role, Ruddle will oversee both the pictures department and Telegraph TV, which have recently been combined.
He will be responsible for all visual content across the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk and will report to deputy editor Tony Gallagher.
Weekend editor of the Daily Telegraph, Jon Stock, is also set to take on some new digital responsibilities. Named as the new head of lifestyle, he will be tasked with developing digital content in the site’s lifestyle channel.
The Telegraph has moved further towards its vision of a fully integrated newsroom with a raft of promotions, new arrivals and a newly integrated Science team.
Integrated desks contribute to both titles and the web site, The Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk, and so far business, sport, foreign and comment desks have been reshaped to fit the new mould.
The integrated science team will be headed up by Daily Telegraph science editor Roger Highfield and Sunday Telegraph science correspondent Richard Gray, with Professor Steve Jones continuing to contribute. The team will be assisted by Kate Devlin.
The changes follow the abrupt departure of Nic Fleming, Daily Telegraph science correspondent, two weeks ago.
Following the significant number of departures from the Telegraph sports desk last month, former Times sports feature writer Alison Kervin is joining as chief sports interviewer. She replaces star interviewer Sue Mott.
Other changes include Stephen Adams’ promotion to arts correspondent, replacing Nigel Reynolds who was axed last month.
The Daily Telegraph has also appointed former Press Association chief reporter John Bingham to take a senior reporting role.
Further changes are expected as the integration policy continues to roll out.
There has been talk of strike action over management decisions to axe staff members, which included the Telegraph Media Group’s decision to remove the entire reader relations desk as well as individual journalists over the last few months.
Sunday Telegraph editor Patience Wheatcroft resigned in September 2007, reportedly over the integration strategy.