Nathalie Thomas, currently Chief Business Correspondent at The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday, has been appointed Business Reporter at the Telegraph Media Group. She will cover leisure and transport for the business department, taking over from Alistair Osborne, who is now leading the department’s features and investigations. A start date is still to be confirmed.

James Ashton has started as City Editor at the London Evening Standard this week.

Jonathon Savill has been appointed Editor at Altitudes Arabia.

Regardless of whether the News of the World is your sort of newspaper, until recent days it has been a highly valuable asset. Add together the paper’s 168-year history, its track record of breaking major stories (particularly through investigative journalism) and its huge success in attracting major advertisers, and you have a something that was surely worth preserving. (Perhaps the most striking fact about the News of the World is that it had a greater number of ABC1 readers than that other Murdoch title, The Sunday Times.) News International’s decision to axe the paper rather than take the steps necessary to redeem it has caught the world on the hop; this was surely part of the Murdoch family’s motivation – the masters of newsprint have indeed, if temporarily, reset the news agenda. However, as a case study in crisis management, the decision seems a disaster. (more…)

Many executives remain uncertain how to handle themselves in a media interview. Here are 80:20’s top 10 tips for successful media encounters. (more…)