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Johnston Press appoints Joe Slavin Digital Classifieds MD

Johnston Press plc, one of the UK’s leading regional newspaper and website publishers, announces the appointment of Joe Slavin to the position of Digital Classifieds Managing Director.

Joe (pictured) was previously Chief Executive of Fish4.co.uk and prior to that was Managing Director of Monster (UK and Ireland).

Joe will be responsible for Johnston Press’s digital classifieds business, with a particular focus on online recruitment.

In February this year, Johnston Press’s online jobs platform (jobstoday.co.uk and scotsman.com/jobs) attracted a record one million unique visitors in the month, says the company.

Joe is a graduate of St John’s University, New York.

Henry Faure Walker, Digital and Business Development Director, Johnston Press plc, commented: “We are delighted to welcome Joe to Johnston Press who brings with him a strong track record in digital classifieds and in particular online recruitment. With our online jobs platform now generating in excess of one million monthly visitors, we are in a good position to accelerate our revenues from digital recruitment and Joe will be working with us to help make that happen.”