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Daily Sport editor Dave Beevers won’t be replaced |
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Friday, 29 February 2008 |
Dave Beevers, who left his job as editor of the Daily Sport yesterday will not be replaced in the immediate term the company has said.
The editor in chief of the Daily and Sunday papers, Barry McIlheney, will oversee day to day editing of the title. McIlheney joined the company in January this year.
Beevers had been with the paper for 16 years – the last eight as editor. With the fundamental changes taking place within the two newspapers, it is believed he felt it was time to move on “pursue other projects.”
Sport Newspapers managing director Andrew Fickling said: “I would like to thank Dave for his great service to Sport Newspapers, and particularly for his contribution to our plans for the relaunch. We wish him well in the future.”
The position of Sunday Sport editor Nick Appleyard is unaffected by the restructure.
Separately the publisher has also announced that award-winning newspaper designer Julian Bovis is to advise the papers on design issues. He joins from the Daily Telegraph and has also worked at the Daily Star.
At the Daily Telegraph, Bovis was responsible for creating front pages including the Boxing Day edition of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami (which won him an award) and the 2005 front page celebrating London's winning bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics. His work on the 7 July 2005 London Bombings won the Daily Telegraph the European Newspaper Design Award for news coverage.
The Sport newspapers are presently undergoing a number of changes and in April the new design is expected to be unveiled.
The first changes, as flagged up by How-Do last year, will be seen on Monday (3 March) as the content is rejigged around the paper with adult advertising being placed within a dedicated supplement towards the back of the paper.
The first indications that Sport Newspapers had plans to entirely overhaul its publishing proposition came last summer when it was announced that James Brown would be joining the company as a consultant editor in chief. Brown rose to priminence initlaly as editor of lads mag Loaded.
In a separate move, the company has appointed Propeller Communications in London to handle the company’s media relations on an interim basis. The account was previously with Brazen in Manchester. Blue Banana and Blue Monkey, both of Manchester, still work with the company on respectively research and sales promotion projects.
Sport Newspapers employs over 100 people at its Manchester head office.
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