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Daily Sport loses editor ahead of relaunch |
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
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Dave Beevers, the editor of The Daily Sport, has quit the paper, with the news filtering out only a day after its bosses announced that the title would be redesigned and relaunched in an effort to attract more mainstream advertisers.
Beevers has been with the paper for the last 16 years, but, according to reports, is now set to take voluntary redundancy. Andrew Fickling, the chief executive of the Sport and sister publication The Sunday Sport, told How-Do that the company was due to release a statement regarding the development imminently.  Fickling His departure comes at a time of flux for the publication, which under Fickling’s leadership, is gradually evolving from a paper with an ‘adult’ reputation to a daily aimed more squarely at mainstream advertisers and the ‘lad’ market. This impression has been given further credence of late by the recruitment of Zoo founder Barry McIlheney, who, as editor-in-chief, was drafted in at a tier above Beevers (and Sunday Sport editor Nick Appleyard) in January of this year. Something to add? Then leave a comment below or email us now.
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