A weekly newspaper editor has moved to a new role on the transformation team of regional publisher Local World.
North Devon Journal editor Chloe Hubbard, left, will be seconded to the transformation team from 8 April, which is looking at new content ideas across the publisher’s titles.
In the role, she will run and develop the new Familybook and Famous Faces channels which will be launched by the publisher, working alongside designers and developers to ensure all content and commercial opportunities are exploited.
The company now plans to appoint an acting editor for the Journal to cover Chloe’s secondment.
Chloe said: “I’m really excited about being part of the transformation team. This is an excellent opportunity to be part of something truly creative and ground breaking.”
The Familybook channel will be an online announcement site, while Famous Faces will feature celebrity news and gossip.
Mark Sainsbury, managing director of Cornwall and Devon Media, said: “The North Devon Journal will miss Chloe enormously.
However her strengths in online and social media will add greatly to the transformation team.”
Chloe was named as editor at the Journal in March last year, stepping up from being chief reporter, and since then she has been named Woman of the Future in Arts, Media and Culture in an annual awards scheme held by Caspian Media.
Three Local World newspaper centres – Derby, Cambridge and Exeter – are heading the transformation project for the publisher to explore new content ideas.
Others who have joined the transformation team include Exeter Express and Echo editor Andy Phelan, who has been replaced by acting editor Paul Burtin during his secondment.
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Re-inventing the wheel!
Didn’t Northcliffe Electronic Publishing once work out of Derby too, producing award-winning announcements websites and the Lasting Tribute memorial pages?
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Bit bizarre that Local World appears to be ‘betting the farm’ on two online channels already being done superbly by major players elsewhere. Can’t see where the revenue model is for this at all – it’s a national sales game and the ‘local’ in Local World says it all. What can we expect next, Local World seconds another editor to come up with a circular, transportation assistance device as its own take on the wheel?
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Amazing they still have all these spare editors they have to shift around.
”are heading the transformation project for the publisher to explore new content ideas.” Hmmmmm, you’d think that the new content ideas would be in place.
Still, these are the voyagers of the Starship LocalWord, exploring new content ideas and civilisations, boldy going where no newspaper group has been before.
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Hmmmmmm FamilyBook and Famous Faces. Do you think someone in Local World maybe has a bit of a Facebook obession?
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