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Frank Kane joins Neil to launch daily newspaper in Dubai |
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5/20/2006 10:45:55 AM |
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by Ian Reeves and Dominic Ponsford
Former Observer business editor Frank Kane is heading over to Dubai to edit a new English-language daily newspaper for the Middle East.
Kane is the first big signing by Andrew Neil in his role as non-executive chairman of ITP – a company which publishes Dubai editions of UK-based titles including Time Out and Campaign, and a magazine called Arabian Business.
The new title is expected to be launched during the second half of the year. Kane is likely to be starting his new role in the next few weeks.
He revealed last month that he was stepping down as Observer business editor after five years in the job to write across the newspaper, citing the punishing weekend hours as one of his reasons.
Kane worked under Neil when he was editor of the Sunday Times, notably as head of the Insight investigations team. The pair also worked together on the Sunday Business, where Neil was publisher and Kane was news and investigations editor.
Kane has also been City editor of The Guardian and number two on the Sunday Times business desk to Jeff Randall.
In March, when Times city editor Patience Wheatcroft was made editor of the Sunday Telegraph, Kane told Press Gazette that few City editors go on to become editors.
He said: "There aren't that many that have gone in that way. There was Andreas Whittam Smith, who was City editor at the Daily Telegraph, who then went on to become editor, founder and demi-god of The Independent. Now we have two. It's a very healthy trend."
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