BuzzFeed UK Snares Media Editor

The Drum‘s Stephen Lepitak was one of the first to the news today that after three years with UK site themediabriefing.com, Patrick Smith is heading over to BuzzFeed UK as media editor starting next month. Smith will remain based in London.

The move comes, appropriately enough, not long after Smith wrote a piece about BuzzFeed hitting profitability. From Lepitak’s item:

Smith, a former reporter for Press Gazette, joined as editor of website themediabriefing.com in August 2010, while also serving as a visiting lecturer to City University London during that period where he taught digital journalism skills.

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