Rostrum Communications - A London PR Company

Long-standing Rostrum client OB10 was featured in The Times e.Money supplement this week.  Amazing coverage – we’ve picked the highlight as their case study with Aviva.

Associated Newspapers has announced it is considering whether to close the London Lite. 

The publisher has entered a period of consultation over the future of the paper. It is a loss making title and could face closure after the market was considerably altered last month.

News International’s thelondonpaper was closed in September and subsequently the decision was made by owners of the London Evening Standard to launch it as a free title.

Ryan

Mortgage Solutions
Barney McCarthy starts today as the new Editor of Mortgage Solutions. He replaces Jamie Obertelli who joins Inside Housing as Business Reporter. Editorial responsibility for Your Mortgage and Your Money reverts to Paula John.

Professional Pensions
Jenna Towler has been promoted to News Editor of Professional Pensions. Jenna has worked on the Incisive Media title for three years and was previously Senior UK Pensions Correspondent.

Source: Gorkana

Ryan

This piece rocks.  We’ve been working on it for months and it was a real team effort.  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/borrowing/article6867890.ece.    

We’re gearing up for Rostrum’s first ever appearance at The Marketing Forum this week.  Nick and I will be spending 2 days on a big boat sailing around the Channel, pitching 40+ marketing managers from a range of companies and sectors.

Everyone I’ve spoken  to about it says it’s a rewarding – if draining – experience, so we’re hoping to come back with some nice shiny new clients and contacts from the event!

-          Mark

The London Evening Standard will be distributed for free for the first time today. The circulation will increase from 250,000 to 600,000 copies a day. -Ryan

Financial Mail on Sunday
Joanne Hart, who edits the Midas column in the Financial Mail on Sunday and online at Thisismoney.co.uk, is moving offices. Until 1st December.

Sunday Express
Heath Aston has now left his position as Business Correspondent at the Sunday Express. Emma Vickers will be returning from maternity leave on Thursday, 22nd October to reprise her old role as Retail & Property Correspondent.

Exchange Traded Funds
Emma Dunkley has been appointed Deputy Editor of Exchange Traded Funds.

Global Pensions
Raquel Pichardo has been appointed Deputy Editor of Global Pensions. She was previously Senior International Pensions Correspondent.

Inside Global Banking
Karina Robinson, formerly Senior Editor of The Banker, the Financial Times‘ global banking magazine, and Banking Columnist for the International Herald Tribune, has now launched her new blog, Karina’s Column: Inside Global Banking (www.insideglobalbanking.com).

It explores global banking, economic and political themes through opinion and interviews with VIPs ranging from EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy to Standard Chartered’s CEO Peter Sands and the FSA’s Hector Sants. Regular blog alerts go out to the 1,000-plus top contacts gathered in her 20-year career as a journalist, including CEOs, finance ministers and central bank governors.

The blog also appear on the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) website and on Bloomberg’s terminal service.

Investors Chronicle
Moira O’Neill, Personal Finance Editor at Investors Chronicle, is now on maternity leave. Maike Currie is Acting Personal Finance Editor while Moira is away.

Source: Gorkana

Ryan

Computing
Nicola Brittain has joined Computing this week as News & Analysis Editor, responsible for all news and analysis content in print and online. Her most recent post was Facilities and Technology Editor at Broadcast magazine.

Pensions Week
James Redgrave has been appointed Senior Reporter at Pensions Week. His job entails providing detailed coverage of the institutional pensions industry and he reports to Editor David Rowley. James was previously a Senior Reporter for Investment Week and before that a Reporter on Financial Adviser.

Investment Adviser
Tanya Powley has joined Investment Adviser as Senior Reporter. Tanya has just returned from Sydney, Australia, where she worked at the Australian Financial Review and its sister magazine Asset, covering the retail finance industries.

John Kenchington is also joining Investment Adviser as Reporter on 2nd November. He joins from City AM.

Financial Director
Melanie Stern is now Editor of Financial Director following Andrew Sawers’ departure.

EuroWeek
Katie Llanos-Small and Natalie Feary have joined EuroWeek as Reporters. Katie is covering emerging market bonds. Natalie, who replaces Molly Guinness, will cover niche currencies, the Swiss Franc market and senior bank debt.

Sarah White, who until now has been Loans Editor at the magazine, will be moving over to cover the Western European corporate bond market as Corporate Bonds Editor. Nina Flitman, who has been covering that beat, will now cover the Western European loans market, along with Tessa Wilkie, who also covers leveraged loans and restructuring.

Paul Wallace replaces Sarah as Loans Editor and will run EuroWeek’s daily loans service as well as covering the Western European loans market with Nina and Tessa.

Source: Gorkana

Really nice piece for management consulting client Maxxim in this month’s edition of Human Resources.  It looks at the role of the corporate centre (head office, to us Brits) and how that has an impact on what HR is able to achieve.  Read more here…

- Mark

Financial Times
Sharlene Goff has now started as Retail Banking Correspondent. Sharlene, who was previously Deputy Personal Finance Editor, replaces Jane Croft.

Investment Week / Professional Adviser
Joanna Faith has been appointed Features Editor for Investment Week and Professional Adviser.  Joanna was previously Editor at Euromoney’s International Tax Review. 

Money Marketing
Lee Jones and Nicola York have swapped roles at the newspaper. Lee, who was formerly Mortgage Reporter, has taken up the role of Features Writer covering all areas of the financial advice sector. Nicola will now be covering mortgages as well as continuing her role as Politics Reporter.

Source: Gorkana

Ryan