Julia Breen has been appointed business editor at The Northern Echo.
The 26-year-old has worked at the newspaper for more than three years and had been deputy business editor for the past six months.
She succeeds Mike Parker, who is now a public relations officer with the North East Chamber of Commerce in Durham.

A debate on the impact that a change in format can have on newspaper circulation figures is being held on Monday, November 8 at the Stationers’ Hall in London.
Organised by the Stationers’ Livery Company, the panel will include Robert Thomson of The Times, Simon Kelner of The Independent, Alan Rusbridger of The Guardian and Kenny Campbell of Metro. It will be chaired by Jenni Murray, presenter of Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.
Tickets cost £20 each and are available on 020 7246 0988.

Archant Anglia’s Jobs title is continuing to grow, with the pick-up publications now covering the whole of Cambridgeshire.
The third edition, North Cambs Jobs, has just been launched, and along with South Cambs Jobs, and Essex Jobs the weekly magazines now cover an area stretching from Stamford and Peterborough down to Chelmsford in Essex, even reaching parts of Cambridgeshire where the group’s newspapers do not.

North Wales Weekly News readers have been thanked for helping to secure a £482,000 grant which will allows St David’s Hospice to expand its vital work.
A vigorous campaign by the newspaper helped convice the Welsh Assembly, which approved the grant, of the hospice’s financial viability after it prompted an increase in public contributions.

More than 3,000 signatures demanding 16 Derby post offices are saved from closure have been presented to the city council.
Four separate petitions were handed to the council’s scrutiny management commission, including those collected via coupons in the Derby Evening Telegraph and on its website.

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