Victoria Newton has been named as the editor-in-chief of The Sun newspaper in a reshuffling of senior figures at the Rupert Murdoch-owned News UK titles.
The former Sun on Sunday editor moves into the position to replace Tony Gallagher, who has been named as the new deputy editor of The Times.
She becomes the paper’s second female editor after Rebekah Brooks, who led the publication from 2003 to 2009. In 2003 Ms Brooks was cleared of all charges after being implicated in the phone hacking scandal at The News of the World, and now serves as parent company News UK’s CEO.
Her appointment also means five of the UK’s leading publications have female editors – a list which includes The Mirror, The Guardian, The Sunday Times and the Financial Times
Ms Newton, who has worked at The Sun for more than 20 years and has been editor of The Sun on Sunday since 2015, said the paper “has been such a huge part of my life”.