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New digital editor to oversee newspapers' websites

Luke JacobsA new digital development editor has appointed to oversee the websites of three Kent newspapers.

Luke Jacobs will take up the role at Local World subsidiary Kent Regional News and Media (KRNM) on Monday, where he will head the teams responsible for the website of the Canterbury Times, Maidstone and Medway News and Ashford Herald.

Luke, pictured left, joins KRNM from its sister division, the  Essex Chronicle Media Group, where he had held the position of digital publisher for the Essex Chronicle and Brentwood Gazette since March 2013.

Before that he had served as a reporter for Archant London, before holding chief reporter and web editor positions at newspapers in London and Surrey.

Richard, Karn, managing director of the South East businesses for Local World, said: “Luke has worked closely with the editorial team in Essex to ensure that digital publishing is at the heart of our overall service to readers in the county.

“We are delighted to be able to provide him with a new challenge to develop his career and an opportunity to shape our future portfolio across Kent.

“We wish him well for the future and the challenge of building on the solid platform he has created in Essex and Hertfordshire is now under way.”

Luke’s new role will see him target “significant growth in audience use and engagement as well as exploring creative ways in which to reflect back the successes of online content into print”.

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  • January 28, 2015 at 9:32 am
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    Congratulations to Luke on this new role. Fine journalist in both print and online.

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  • January 28, 2015 at 11:15 am
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    Congratulations Luke, thoroughly well-deserved.

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  • January 28, 2015 at 12:04 pm
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    “reflect back the successes of online content into print”. Anyone any idea what this jargon means? But good luck to this young man.

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  • January 28, 2015 at 12:50 pm
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    Webbedfeet – I think it means running a story across KRNM newspapers about how the video of a cat from Maidstone chasing a felt mouse on a stick went viral and was watched by 3 billion people!

    Possibly on the front page with a headline like ‘Kent kitty’s online antics go viral worldwide!’ In fact it might be worth saving all but the second word of that headline to use again?

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  • January 28, 2015 at 5:44 pm
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    Thanks ,Confused. I am now equipped to survive in the modern multi-media world, also known as fantasyland.

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