Phil Radburn, acting managing director at York & County Press, is to retire at the end of June.
He has spent much of his life in newspapers, and joined Newsquest in 1989.
Since then he has held a number of senior positions within the group including regional managing director for Cheshire, Lancashire & Kendal, Midlands North, South and most recently, the whole of the Midlands.

A Hounslow teenager has scooped the top prize in a national competition for budding political journalists.
Jamie Stern-Weiner, (16), will have tea at 10 Downing Street after winning the Best Newspaper Article category in the Citizenship Foundation’s National Political Journalism Competition for his investigation into the media coverage of the humanitarian crisis in Haiti.
The Citizenship Foundation is an independent charity which aims to encourage people to engage in the wider community through education about the law, democracy and society. It focuses on developing young people’s citizenship skills, knowledge and understanding.

A Lancashire magazine edited by a former UCLan journalism student has expanded to cover other North West areas.
Chantelle Thorley has edited “Your Quarter” for the past year and following the success of the lifestyle magazine she is now in charge of editing the new Manchester and Cheshire editions. The former MA magazine student says she is delighted with the development of her role.

The Salisbury Journal is giving new bands the chance to find fame by teaming up with VirtualFestivals.com to launch talent contest Local Heroes.

Reporter Emma Davison became “deaf” for a day to investigate the topic of hearing loss for a feature on her paper, the Huddersfield Daily Examiner.
Laura Vickers at the Sutton Coldfield Observer also experienced life with the volume turned down for an Inside Story piece in her weekly.