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Skyport launches website
Skyport Heathrow has launched a website. www.skyport-heathrow.co.uk is fully interactive and targeted at all airport staff past and present. It covers all the news and views of airport staff from charity fundraising events to personal achievements and gives them the opportunity to have their say about everything that’s going on at the airport.

Trafford Metro News to relaunch as two titles
MEN Media has announced that The Trafford Metro News will relaunch as two new newspapers from next Thursday. The Sale & Altrincham Advertiser and The Stretford & Urmston Advertiser will replace the Manchester-based Metro News as a result of editorial restructuring of the MEN Media business over the summer.

Sally Huggett starts as editor in chief for The LIME Magazine
Sally Huggett BSc Dip He RN has recently taken up the position of editor in chief for The LIME Magazine for parents of children with special needs. Her team of regular writers includes Dr Susan Ashley PhD, Dr Jackie Marquette PhD, Ian Jordan, Mark Brown and Munira Adenwalla.

Catherine Dawes joins BBC Gardeners’ World magazine as features co-ordinator
Catherine Dawes has been appointed to the new role of features co-ordinator at BBC Worldwide‘s BBC Gardeners’ World magazine. Dawes started at the publication this Monday (11 October).

The Focus is a chance for freelance journalist members of www.journalistdirectory.com to tell colleagues, editors and PRs (in our separate newsletter from www.featuresexec.com) a bit more about their work and experience. If you’d like to take part email us on news@dwpub.com.

This week (pictured, right): Anne Wollenberg

What do you write about?

Film, music, work and careers, design and the creative industries, and social and political issues, with bits of education, finance, food, TV and media thrown in. You’ll usually find me covering a very eclectic mix of topics – in the last few weeks it’s been Twix bars, the Beatles, magazine design, Nick Clegg, domestic violence and pop stars’ degrees, among other things.

Where are we likely to see your work?

The Guardian and Guardian.co.uk, Virgin Media, DVD & Blu-ray Review, Cue Entertainment, TheSite.org and Computer Arts Projects magazine. Other recent clients have included The Musician, Disability Now and the Independent. Over my freelance career I’ve written for everyone from the Telegraph to Film4 to Pay magazine – what can I say, I get around.

What’s the most memorable work you’ve done?

I have a rare sleep disorder and wrote a feature on it for the Indy in 2008. Two years on, I still get emails thanking me for writing it (there’s not much other material on the subject). People often say it helped explain things to friends or family, which is great. On a more frivolous note, I very much enjoyed interviewing Simon Pegg recently, having long been a fan of his work (particularly Spaced).

How would you pay the bills if you weren’t a journalist?

I’d be a creative writing teacher or a lecturer of some sort. I’d actually love to learn to use creative writing for therapeutic purposes, but there aren’t very many courses in this and I can’t find any in London. Otherwise, I’d open a bookshop and/or teashop.

If we gave you £1,000, how would you spend it?

On a trip to Japan or Canada – my boyfriend lived in Canada for a bit and we plan to go over there at some point, stay with various friends and take the Toronto-Vancouver train.

What books are on your bedside table, magazines in your bag, or blogs on your screen?

I’m reading Naïve. Super by Erlend Loe – next on my list is Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart. My favourite magazines are a (possibly odd) mix of women’s glossies – e.g. Glamour, US Elle – and independent film mags like Little White Lies. Plus I just signed up for Stack Magazines, where you get a different independent mag in the post every month. Blog-wise, I read various media, film, food and craft blogs, plus Slushpile Hell and Clients From Hell are consistently hilarious and Rare Bird Finds turns up some cool online goodies.

Get in touch with this journalist via the Freelance Journalist Directory: www.journalistdirectory.com/journalist/XXTAT/Anne-Wollenberg/

IPC sells Caravan to Warners Group Publications
IPC has completed its sale of Caravan to Warners Group Publications. The deal sees Warners acquire the brand – previously part of the IPC Inspire portfolio – with immediate effect. There will be no interruption to the publishing schedule of the title.

Yorkshire weekly revamps
The Brighouse Echo has changed from a broadsheet to a tabloid format. The first tabloid issue was published last Thursday (7 October) with a run of 56 pages instead of the previous 24-28 pages. The Yorkshire weekly has also undergone a redesign and displays a new masthead.

WheresGoodtoEat.com launches
WheresGoodtoEat.com has launched online. The interactive website features reviews on eating establishments throughout the country.

Further changes at IPC media
IPC have announced the sale of Model Collector and Stamp Magazine to MyHobbyStore. The move is part of a review of IPC Media’s niche and specialist titles. MyHobbyStore also publishes RCM&E, Model Engineer, Model Boats and Good Woodworking.

motherswhowork.co.uk launches new career change blog
motherswhowork.co.uk has launched a new career change blog in time for the website’s third birthday.

New look Classic FM magazine launches
Classic FM magazine has revealed a redesign this month.

Verve magazine launched
Bright Publishing has launched Verve (www.vervemag.co.uk), a free travel, lifestyle and technology publication.

 Editor appointed at IMT
Irish Medical Times has appointed Dara Gantly as editor. IMT is published weekly by MPI Media.

Future launches Tap!
Future Publishing has announced the launch of Tap! The iPhone and iPad Magazine, available simultaneously across multiple platforms in print, digital and online versions, alongside a paid-for iPhone app.

Bardgett Media press agency relaunches
Graham Bardgett has relaunched his Bardgett Media press agency operation as a correspondent on defence and international affairs.

Office Products International (OPI) appoints Felicity Francis as editor
Felicity Francis will join Office Products International (OPI) magazine as editor on 18 October, replacing Stephen White who has taken up a new position with ITP in Dubai.

Smart Gorillas launched
The London-based online publication Smart Gorillas has now officially launched. Producing news and analysis articles on mobile content ecosystems, the site can be viewed at www.smartgorillas.com.

Editor takes early retirement at The Weekly News
David Burness will be taking early retirement from DC Thomson‘s The Weekly News at the end of this month, after 39 years with the publisher. Donald Martin, editor of The Sunday Post, will be taking over the dual role of editor from 1 November.

The Focus is a chance for freelance journalist members of www.journalistdirectory.com to tell colleagues, editors and PRs (in our separate newsletter from www.featuresexec.com) a bit more about their work and experience. If you’d like to take part email us on news@dwpub.com.

This week (pictured, right): Alistair Dabbs

What do you write about?

General computing but I specialise in digital imaging and and publishing technology. Digital imaging means computer displays, printers, cameras, projectors, scanners, touchscreens and the like. Publishing technology covers the fields of prepress, graphic design, content management, editorial production, blogging, e-book creation and so on. Of course, since I’m a freelancer, I write about my personal interests too: comics, anime, snowboarding, martial arts and general sports. I’m also an Adobe Certified Instructor and editorial trainer, so half my income derives from delivering training courses.

Where are we likely to see your work?

Partly for newsstand computing magazines and popular websites such as Register Hardware, but mostly for specialist books and trade periodicals. I have co-authored a number of books, including the best-selling ‘Digital Designer’s Bible’, ‘The Print Manager’s Handbook’ and ‘InDesign Essentials’. Fans of Japanese anime may have read my work without realising it: I wrote the DVD box notes for 40 republished classic releases from Manga Entertainment. The simplest way to find my work is to Google my name.

What’s the most memorable work you’ve done?

Back in 1998, I was the first journalist outside the US to test Apple’s original ‘Bondi Blue’ iMac (for MacUser magazine). It’s hardly Pulitzer Prize material but it is memorable in its historical context: at the time, Apple was on the verge of failure and this design-led product – its first to sport the ‘i’ prefix – re-invented the company.

How would you pay the bills if you weren’t a journalist?

I suppose I could deliver computer training full-time or get by as a karate instructor. While still in full-time education, I turned down an apprenticeship with a fine art restorer. A few years later, I turned down the chance to tour the pubs of Germany playing bass in a punk band. Just think, today I could have been working on paintings in the Vatican. Or dead 24 years ago having inhaled my own vomit.

If we gave you £1,000, how would you spend it?

I’d buy the insanely overpriced Apple iPad. I’d spend the loose change left over to buy a new Windows notebook.

What books are on your bedside table, magazines in your bag, or blogs on your screen?

Bedside table: the last two years of ’2000AD’, ‘Megazine’, ‘Fortean Times’ and the French satirical magazine ‘Fluide Glaciale’. Bag: John Allison’s ‘Scary Go Round’ Book 8 and ‘Ghost Dance’ by Rebecca Levene. Blogs: ‘Rantings of a Sub-editor’ and ‘The Grey Cardigan’. Apart from those two, I can’t stand reading blogs. They are such pointless, useless, boring, empty-headed, opinionated bollocks. My own blog is called ‘LAYOUT’.

Get in touch with this journalist via the Freelance Journalist Directory: www.journalistdirectory.com/journalist/Lm/Alistair-Dabbs.

Publisher change for Pharmacy Education
Pharmacy Education journal is now being published by the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). It was previously published by Informa Publishing, and is now available online free of charge at http://pharmacyeducation.fip.org.

Meze launches
Bimonthly magazine Meze has launched in association with Radisson Hotels and Park Inns. Aimed at discerning business travellers, Meze is a source of luxury, leisure and business travel news. Meze will feature editorial content using journalists from the world of luxury travel, motoring, watches and jewellery, fashion, technology, property and more. The title will be available free to guests in every business class guest room and suite within the luxury Radisson Hotels and Park Inns, and free of charge to travellers in first and business class lounges within selected airports around the UK and Ireland. The first issue will be published 30 November. The editorial team consists of Gill Anderson, Sarah-Jane Lampe and Emma Morgan.

Editorial changes at MSN Money UK
Omotola Akerele has joined MSN Money as a content editor. Current content editor James Andrews will be leaving the website on 14 October.

Blog editor Candida Balfour leaves mydeco
mydeco blog editor, Candida Balfour, has left the By Design website.

Liz Gibbons leaves as executive producer of BBC 2′s The Review Show
Liz Gibbons has left her role as executive producer of the BBC‘s The Review Show.

Change of publisher and office move at PRA
Plastics and Rubber Asia publisher Tim Ornellas has stepped down from his role at the PRA title.

Suzanne Gill to become editor of Control Engineering Europe
Suzanne Gill is taking over as editor of IML Group‘s Control Engineering Europe from next week.

IPC Media sells Web User
As part of the review of IPC Media’s niche and specialist titles, the company has announced the sale of Web User to Dennis Publishing.

Manchester titles move to Oldham
The Manchester Evening News has relocated to offices in Oldham taking with it staff from sister titles in the city.

Editorial changes at TheBusinessDesk.com
Anastasia Weiner is no longer business correspondent for the Yorkshire area at TheBusinessDesk.com. The online publication has now appointed James Reed as assistant editor instead.

Briefing Media launches its first site TheMediaBriefing
Briefing Media, the new company started by Neil Thackray and Rory Brown, has launched its first site aimed at the media called TheMediaBriefing.

The Beauty Quest relaunches as OSOGLAM
OSOGLAM features the latest news on beauty products, health, reviews, gifts, promotions, advice and tips and tricks for both men and women.

Just as Beautiful is just as beautiful in print
Just As Beautiful magazine has launched its first print issue. The magazine, “dedicated to the curvy woman” has been published online since January 2007.