A regional daily deputy editor is to take charge of a weekly sister title to cover its editor’s maternity leave.
Mel West was appointed editor of the Lincolnshire Echo earlier this year after her predecessor Steven Fletcher became publisher of the Local World-owned title.
However Mel is due to go on maternity leave in the spring and Steve has now announced that Charles Walker, currently deputy editor of the Nottingham Post, will take up the reins during her absence.
Charles was appointed deputy editor of the Post by the late Mel Cook in 2012 and has continued in the role under the current editor, Mike Sassi.
In an announcement to staff this week, Steven said: “I have worked closely with Charlie for many years, and know he will fit in very well here.
“Charlie is currently deputy editor at the Post, and Mike Sassi has kindly agreed that he can be seconded to us until Mel returns.”
Charles joined the Nottingham Post in 2003 as the health correspondent and became the paper’s political editor in 2006.
As a reporter on the Post he won a number of awards and was twice named Specialist Journalist of the Year, once as health correspondent and once as political editor.
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I thought Loco World were handing editing duties to their readers via Facebook?
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Loco World can’t even run a web publishing system at the moment…as those of us banging our heads on our keyboard and laughing at witless explanatory e-mails from our HQ ‘leaders’ know only too well!!
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interesting Just Sayin – wheredyahearthat?
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“Mike Sassi has kindly agreed that he can be seconded…” would seemingly translate to “We’re robbing Peter to pay Paul with no actual extra cover being employed across the group for potentially lengthy maternity absences.”
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