A veteran journalist who edited several daily and weekly titles before going on to lead a local TV station for five years has landed a new role with a PR agency.

Nigel Wareing was editor of Belfast daily the News Letter from 2006-7 before going on to head-up the now-defunct Manchester TV station Channel M.

Now he has joined Oldham-based agency Cornerstone Design and Marketing as a PR copywriter alongside former colleague Gill Potts.

The pair, pictured below, worked together at the Tameside-based Advertiser Group of Newspapers in the 1990s and later at the Manchester Evening News in the early noughties.

As well as editing the News Letter, Nigel was editor-in-chief of the then Guardian Media Group’s weekly newspapers in Tameside and south Manchester between 1999 and 2006.

More recently he has worked in internal communications at the John Lewis Partnership, editing the retailer’s staff and business magazines and websites at its stores in Cheadle and Trafford.

Said Nigel: “I am delighted to be a part of the Cornerstone success story. I have achieved a lot in my long career, but this client-focused opportunity gives me the chance to add to the breadth of my experience.

“I look forward to working with Cornerstone’s large and diverse client base, using my experience to provide them with the best possible PR service.”

Nigel replaces Robbie MacDonald, who left the agency after four years to work in the BBC-funded Local Democracy Reporting Service.

Founded in 2007 by David Wadsworth, Cornerstone now employs 22 people and is on course for an annual turnover of £1.2m in 2021.