Brand Republic
 
Edition:
UK |
Asia
 
Digital jobs

Jobs

Find over 3000 jobs
 

Directory

 

Gordon's Republic

Top slot 

Comments:0   Add your comment
More odd medialand appointments with IPC's Tim Brooks named as managing director of The Guardian.
Brooks is managing director of the men's unit at IPC Ignite!. It had been thought that after Carolyn McCall was promoted to chief executive of the Guardian Media Group, her job would go to commercial director Stuart Taylor.

But no, in comes Brooks with his wealth of magazine experience, but no experience of newspapers.

Not unlike Brooks's former IPC boss Sly Bailey, who left the chief executive job at the magazine publisher, to take the top job at Trinity Mirror.

Or more recently Stevie Spring, who made the leap from outdoor firm Clear Channel to magazine publisher Future.

My guess is that Stuart Taylor probably won't be long for the world of Guardian Newspapers, having seemingly lost out to an outsider.

It makes something of a break for The Guardian, which has promoted internally candidates over the years, including McCall, who joined the newspaper group 20 years ago as a planner before rising through the ranks.

No more it seems. The Guardian has cast around outside its ranks and hired no doubt the best man for the job.

Brooks has spent his last six years at IPC and before that he had nine years at Emap, but is maybe best known in the media industry for founding Media Week, which is now owned by Haymaket.

The good news is he might have written the odd newspaper story along the way.
Published Aug 23 2006, 04:52 PM by Gordon Macmillan

Comments

No Comments
 
To comment on this post you have to be logged in

 

About this blog

Gordon's Republic

Brand Republic's daily blog on digital, media and plenty in between.
 

About the author

Gordon Macmillan

Blogging for:

Gordon's Republic

Member since: 03 Jun 2008

Last login: 26 Nov 2009

Total Posts: 1,621

 
 
 
 

Tags

 

Syndication