Gillian Phillips is leaving Times Newspapers to become director of editorial legal services at Guardian News & Media.
Phillips will join the Guardian, Observer and Guardian.co.uk publisher in May after nearly nine years at Times Newspapers. She replaces Nuala Cosgrove, who has left GNM to take up a post with media regulator Ofcom.
The part-time employment judge will lead GNM’s in-house editorial legal team and report to Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian
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