Nicked

Here's a loss to BBC News: Nick Sutton, currently billed as Executive News Editor (Digital) is off to Sky News as Head of Digital Output.

Nick first went fully digital in 2016, elevated from editorship of The World At One/The World This Weekend, to the first Editor, BBC News Mobile and Online. He'd joined the Today programme as a researcher, more or less straight from a BSc in Economics (Government) at the LSE in 1997. He rose to editor of The World At One in 2010. In 2015 he raised concerns inside the BBC about Alan Yentob phoning presenter Ed Stourton about Kids Company issues ahead of a broadcast.

Nick started tweeting screengrabs of the front pages of the national newspapers in early 2011, with the hashtag #tomorrowspaperstoday "just to see what happened". The papers send the BBC (and others) pdfs from around 8pm. It still runs, with a rota, and is attracting over 16m impressions a month.

Despite his radio background, Nick was a great supporter of "vertical video", which, over time, has taken a number of pops from this blog. He claims it's getting traction in the States. Personally, this writer still believes it will go the way of Cinerama and 8mm movies.