Ian Griffin, 32, is The Sentinel’s new business editor. He takes over from David Elks who has moved across to become an editor on the title’s web site.
Griffin
He was formerly the business correspondent at the Leicester Mercury for the past six years having previously worked at the Heartland Evening News in Nuneaton and the Loughborough Echo weekly.
He started his career at the Ashby and Coalville Times weekly in 1996.
He is “looking forward to his new role because the Sentinel's readership area, North Staffordshire and South Cheshire, has a rich variety of businesses, with some cracking names such as Bentley Motors, JCB, Michelin, Waterford Wedgwood and the telecoms businesses which used to make up the Caudwell Group.
“I've joined the newspaper at an exciting time for North Staffordshire, with a multi-billion pound regeneration programme underway at the same time as the area's world famous ceramics companies are coming to the end of a traumatic shake-up as they try to hold their own in the face of Far Eastern competition.
“The patch has also a great mix of urban and rural businesses. There are many similarities with my former patch in Leicestershire, which was primarily associated with textiles, another industry in decline in the UK. But this patch is quite unique in my view. The heart of the patch is Stoke-on-Trent, but it’s actually made up of six separate towns: Hanley, Burslem, Longton, Fenton, Tunstall and Stoke itself. There’s a lot of rivalry between the centres which makes for interesting news.”
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