Allison Brodie is leaving her job as senior reporter on Media Week to join Channel Five as a publicist for factual and features programming.

She began her career as a reporter for DC Thomson and joined Media Week three years ago as a reporter.

She said: “I am delighted to be joning Five at such an exciting time in its development and I am really looking forward to the new challenges that the role will bring.”

Brodie starts her new job at the end of the month.