PAUL HANDLEY, the editor of the Church Times since 1995, has announced that he’s to retire at the top of September. Mr Handley, who shall be 66 later this month, began working for the Church Times in 1988 as a reporter, and went on to be news editor.
After a stint running the press office at Lambeth Palace within the early Nineteen Nineties, he worked as a contract journalist while his wife trained for the priesthood. During this time, he wrote the Church Times’s weekly press column.
Mr Handley said this week: “I even have an undiminished love of the Church of England, an undiminished sympathy for its leadership, an undiminished respect for my colleagues, and perhaps barely diminished energy levels.”
The chief executive of Hymns Ancient & Modern, Dominic Vaughan, said: “I would really like to thank Paul and the team for all of the years of exertions, never missing a deadline and dealing together to develop many latest innovations equivalent to digital formats, podcasts, and events. We will all miss Paul, each as Church Times’s editor and as a part of the senior management team at Hymns Ancient & Modern.”
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