Prior to joining Atalink Howes worked for field marketing company The Network, where he managed the distribution of the Metro newspaper throughout the UK.
"Hitting the right balance between features and hard news is important. At present the challenge is to ensure visitor numbers to the site are maintained in the short-term and grow in the medium to long-term," Howes told Journalism.co.uk.
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