DIARMUID Macdonagh's position as Editor of the Dorset Echo has been made permanent.

He has been Acting Editor since February but his position has been confirmed today by Henry Faure Walker, Chief Executive of the Newsquest Media Group.

Vincent Boni, Managing Director of Newsquest Dorset said:

“I am extremely pleased to congratulate Diarmuid on his editorship. Rarely do you get the pleasure of making an appointment so deserved and after many years of hard graft as a journalist, so many of them at the Dorset Echo.

"I am particularly pleased to be working with him and look forward to seeing how he will develop further the largest audience the Dorset Echo and its sister publications have ever had”. 

Diarmuid was appointed Acting Editorafter Toby Granville, then editor of both the Bournemouth and Dorset Echo, was seconded as Newsquest's Editorial Development Director.

Toby's position has also been made permanent and he will now focus on working with editorial teams across the group, supporting them to become genuinely multi-media.