Donald Martin made editor of the Sunday Post

Donald Martin, editor-in-chief at the Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times in Glasgow, has been made editor of the Sunday Post.

Martin, who is currently president of the UK Society of Editors and chairman of the Scottish Daily Newspaper Society, will takeover from David Pollington, who took early retirement at the end of last year.

Martin was appointed editor-in-chief of the three Glasgow titles in December 2008. A day later parent company Newsquest announced significant redundancies across the newspapers in an effort to cut 40 jobs.

Prior to his appointment to the newly created role of editor-in-chief, Martin was editor of the Evening Times, a position he occupied for more than two years.

In April 2009 he oversaw the merger of the Herald and Sunday Herald websites to form www.heraldscotland.com.

Editor of the free weekly Edinburgh and Lothians Post at the age of 24, Martin went on to edit the North West Evening Mail in Cumbria and the Aberdeen Evening Express before joining the Herald & Times Group.

"I would not be in the position to have been offered the role without the tremendous career development and confidence senior management had in me during my four years at the Herald & Times Group, firstly editing the Evening Times and latterly the Herald as editor-in-chief," says Martin in a release announcing his appointment.

"I will always be grateful for the opportunities I have been given and will be sad to leave behind such a talented team."

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