Editor takes retirement
Ed Asquith, editor of The Scarborough News, is to take early retirement. Under his guidance, the newspaper has twice won the weekly title of the year in the Yorkshire & Humber O2 Media Awards awards.
Ed Asquith, the longest-serving editor of Scarborough’s main newspaper since it was independently owned by the Whittaker family, is to take early retirement.
Under Ed, aged 60, The Scarborough News has twice won the weekly title of the year in the Yorkshire & Humber O2 Media Awards awards.
The Whitby Gazette, of which he is also editor, is the current holder of that accolade, and his other newspaper the Bridlington Free Press was commended in the same awards last year.
He first joined the Scarborough title in 1988 and returned as editor and editorial director in 2003, following editorships at Whitby and Wakefield.ScarboroughandWhitby are among the company’s bestperforming newspaper sales titles. He helped to secure the continuation of free court lists for every newspaper in England by initiating action to halt the introduction of costs by alerting and advising the Society of Editors in the matter.
He said: “Thank you to all my editorial teams currently and from days gone by for working so hard and so creatively on behalf of our communities, and thanks also to our commercial colleagues.
“We have handled hundreds of major and breaking stories with good judgement and dedication, and faced huge changes and challenges in the newspaper world.
“Thank you to our readers, our contributors and columnists, outlets and all our business supporters for their contributions to such an important part of the life of our towns. But in my 40th year in journalism, it’s time to move on.”
Ed, who has recently trekked Kilimanjaro and Everest Base Camp, said: “It’s time to climb other mountains.”