A senior sports journalist on a regional daily is to return to his former paper as editor, it was announced yesterday.
Keith Perry, currently football editor at the Birmingham Mail, has been appointed the new editor of Trinity Mirror stablemate the Coventry Telegraph.
It marks a swift return to Coventry for Keith, left, who was sports editor at the paper until taking up the Birmingham role last October.
He succeeds Alun Thorne in the editor’s chair at the Telegraph folllowing his departure last autumn for a PR role.
Said Keith: “I am delighted to be returning to the Coventry Telegraph as editor. I know that it is a very talented newsroom and I am looking forward to working with the team there to accelerate our audience growth.
“I will be sad to leave the Birmingham Mail, but the football department is now well placed to build on the success we have achieved in the last few months.”
Trinity Mirror Midlands editor-in-chief Marc Reeves said: “We had a very strong field of candidates for one of the plum jobs in the regional media, but Keith is the person we need to take the Telegraph’s growth to new levels.
“He has the drive and vision to keep the Telegraph at the centre of people’s lives in Coventry. I’m really looking forward to working with him in his new role.”
As well as the Mail, Keith has previously worked for the Derby Telegraph, Leicester Mercury, Sunday Mercury and freelanced for The Sun, Daily Mail and Daily Express.
He takes up his new role on Monday 2 February.
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An excellent appointment, and very well deserved.
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Plumb job?
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Will be interesting to see if he can get it up to the standard it was at before Les Reid left.
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Oh come on. We’re seriously not going to turn this into a Les Reid platform are we?
Let it go!
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Congrats Keith. A great newspaper deserves another great editor.
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Former football editor. Watch the grammar! Good luck though.
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