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Shape-Shifting at the Times of London

by Zoe Strimpel
Thu, 10 Jan 2008 at 1:29 PM

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And so the great organ that is the Times of London changes shape again. Not in the way that it did three years ago, when the paper went from broadsheet to tabloid. No, it was announced today that the much-anticipated shuffling around of senior staff following the December appointment of the new editor, the 38-year-old (and hunky) James Harding, has come to pass.

There is a new deputy editor: Keith Blackmore, formerly an associate editor who got his start on the sports desk. Ben Preston, who has been deputy editor for about a decade and whose father was editor of the Guardian, will become editor of the international editions of the Times. The paper, one little knows, has separate editions in Poland, Dubai, and Japan. And the foreign editor, Roland Watson, becomes head of news, while the diplomatic editor, Richard Beeston, becomes foreign editor.

So it's the beginning of a new era under wunderkind Harding, who speaks Japanese and Mandarin fluently, and was at the Times for just over 16 months (as business editor) before landing the top job.

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