Top journalist Cliff Taylor named as new Sunday Business Post editor

AWARD-WINNING journalist Cliff Taylor is to be the next editor of the Sunday Business Post.

Mr Taylor is to leave his post as economics editor at The Irish Times, where he spent 17 years, to take up the editorship of the Sunday Business Post on January 4 next.

Mr Taylor, 42, from Dublin will fill the vacancy created by the unexpected resignation in October of the newspaper’s former editor Ted Harding.

The selection of Mr Taylor is seen a coup for the weekly national title.

Mr Taylor was on the shortlist for the post of editor of the Irish Times two years ago when, after an intensely competitive selection process, Geraldine Kennedy was named as editor.

Mr Taylor, a Trinity College economics graduate, said that he is looking forward to building on the successes of the Sunday Business Post which he said is on a very solid base.

He is married with two children and is a former Print Journalist of the Year.

Mr Taylor’s joins the Business Post at a time when it has its biggest ever readership.

Sunday Business Post chief executive Fiachra O’Riordan said that after interviewing a wide range of candidates he believes that Mr Taylor is the right person for the job.

“We chose Cliff Taylor because of his outstanding journalistic ability in business, economics and general news”.

“His selection, which has been warmly welcomed by the editorial team at the Post, sends a strong message to our competitors,” he added.

Irish Examiner owners Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH) bought The Sunday Business Post from British newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror for €10 million two years ago.

Mr Taylor’s predecessor Mr Harding had held the job since 2001, when he succeeded Damien Kiberd, one of the Post’s co-founders, who had edited the paper since it was set up in 1989 by a small group of journalists.