City AM will provide business and financial news for many of Reach’s biggest newspaper titles including the Daily Express. The new partnership comes as City AM appoints Christian May as editor-in-chief – a return for the former editor after almost four years away from the newspaper (and journalism). May will replace Andy Silvester, the former Sun PR chief who joined City AM as May’s deputy editor in September 2019 and then succeeded him in late 2020.
Silvester’s last day as editor was Thursday (18 July) and May will return at the end of August. The two-year deal between City AM and Reach will see the business newspaper’s content appear online in the Express, Business Live (which will continue its existing regional coverage) and sites in its Live network, plus in print in the Express, Manchester Evening News and Liverpool Echo. Reach chief digital publisher David Higgerson said working together with City AM “will give us the opportunity to strengthen our quality business journalism offering across our portfolio, and them the chance to get their content in front of our engaged audiences, both nationally and locally around our strong regional centres”.
Former Daily and Sunday Express business editor Geoff Ho – described as a hero after confronting the London Bridge attack terrorists in 2017 and getting stabbed in the neck – announced on 2 July that he had left the company after 17 years and was now on gardening leave. City AM chief operating officer Harry Owen .