Ben Taylor has been promoted to editor of the Sunday Times, succeeding Emma Tucker, who’s leaving to become editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal. Taylor joined the Sunday Times in 2020 as the paper’s deputy editor, so this is an unsurprising step up. Krissi Murison, who’s currently the editor of the Sunday Times Magazine, has taken Taylor’s old job. News Corp chief Robert Thomson said:

“Ben Taylor is a principled journalist who will certainly hold contemporary elites to account. Individual freedoms are being challenged by intransigent institutions and there is an epidemic of wokery and quackery, so reporters and editors with the objective of being objective will necessarily play an increasingly important role in Britain and beyond.”

The (Sunday) Times They Are a-Changin’.

There’s big churn over at the Daily Mail following Jack Doyle’s appointment as No. 10’s new press secretary. Earlier this week it emerged the News Editor Ben Taylor is also leaving, being poached by the Sunday Times as deputy editor.

Guido hears word that Caroline Wheeler, Deputy Political Editor of The Sunday Times, is the hot front runner to fill the Daily Mail’s associate political editor vacancy created by Jack Doyle’s transfer Downing Street. Geordie Grieg will be pleased to nick a hack back from the Sunday Times. Guido understands the contract has not yet been signed…

UPDATE:  Sunday Times source gets in touch to say “Caroline is not leaving”. Guido understands that following negotiations the drinks are on Caroline…