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February 10, 2005updated 22 Nov 2022 2:17pm

Newsquest appoints north-west publishers

By Press Gazette

Newsquest centres in the north-west of England have appointed two new publishers.

Derek
King is the new publisher at Newsquest Merseyside. He joins Newsquest
having gained experience at both the Nottingham Evening Post and
Express Newspapers.

King was deputy sales and marketing director for the Express Group before moving to Scotland as general manager.

Nuala O’Rourke takes up the same role at Messenger Newspapers in Cheshire.

O’Rourke
began her career at Newsquest as a sales representative on the
Messenger titles in Stockport and has worked for the company for 17
years. She was promoted to group sales manager for Messenger and
Merseyside in 2001, adding the Wirral Globe to her responsibilities. In
2002 she played a major part in the launch of the Lifestyle Magazine in
both centres and in 2004 was behind the launch of a third edition of
the magazine into Wilmslow.

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