A regional daily reporter has been promoted to business editor at the title.
Ryan Crighton, left, has been appointed as business editor of The Press and Journal in Aberdeen, after working for the title for six years.
He joined the title as a trainee reporter in 2007 and has been chief reporter since 2010.
Editor Damian Bates said: “Ryan has proved himself to be a really strong reporter, able to dig out exclusive after exclusive in his time as chief reporter with The Press and Journal.
“We both agree that those skills are vital to take our business coverage to the next level and I know Ryan will bring a totally new dimension to the Business pages.”
Ryan has won a number of awards including being named Scotland’s Young Journalist of the Year in 2008 and winning DC Thomson’s Reporter of the Year title.