PA managing director Tony Watson is to retire after 17 years with the UK’s leading news agency.
Watson leaves in March, bringing to an end a 42-year career in media during which edited the Yorkshire Post for 13 years and also worked in TV.
Watson joined PA in 2003 and was made managing director in 2008, a year after joining the board of parent company PA Group – going on to become its longest serving member.
A PA Group spokesperson said Watson had “shown unwavering commitment to maintaining PA’s position as one of the industry’s most respected news media brands”.
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“He has been the driving force behind the ongoing transformation of the agency into a digitally-focused, multi-platform news and information business,” they added.
Watson will now work with PA Media Group chief executive Clive Marshall to begin a search for his successor.
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