Jonathan Grun, editor of the Press Association, has been appointed to the Editors’ Code of Practice Committee, which reviews the voluntary code of standards overseen by the Press Complaints Commission.

He was nominated by the Newspaper Publishers Association to replace PA Group chief executive Paul Potts, who resigned from the committee after giving up his role as the agency’s editor-in-chief.

Jonathan, (52), joined PA, the national news agency, as a reporter in 1979 and has been editor since 2000.

He is based in its multimedia newsroom in London, overseeing a service which runs over 100,000 words a day on the main news wire alone, together with pictures, video and interactive graphics.

He started working as a reporter while still at school, covering sport for a news agency in Cardiff.

Code committee Chairman Les Hinton, Executive Chairman of News International, said: “We thank Paul for his wise counsel, and welcome in his place Jonathan Grun, whose experience of both the national and regional newspaper scene will be invaluable. The Committee relies totally on the quality of its members, which remains of the highest level.”

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