Post bids farewell to editor after 43 years in journalism
EVENING Post editor Spencer Feeney has retired after more than 40 years in the newspaper industry.
He edited this, his final edition of the South Wales Evening Post, last night before departing from its base in Adelaide Street, Swansea, for the last time.
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Spencer Feeney
Spencer became editor ten years ago and retires as editor-in-chief of South West Wales Media, which gave him overall responsibility for the Llanelli Star and the Carmarthen Journal, as well as the Post.
Before Swansea, he was editor of The Citizen in Gloucester for seven years.
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He was also editor of the Llanelli Star in 1986.
A former member of the Press Complaints Commission, Spencer was one of the regional editors asked to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry.
He said: "I am 62 this year, and after ten years as Post editor it simply feels like the right time for me to call it a day.
"I know I am going to miss the excitement of seeing the paper coming together every day.
"I've been working on regional newspapers since I left school in 1969, so retirement is going to be a strange experience."
He said newspapers had to adapt to survive in a very different world from when he started out in regional newspapers in 1969, particularly with the internet.
But he added: "The internet is only part of the overall picture.
"Society is changing, communities are changing, work patterns are changing.
"On top of that, in the last five years the biggest single influence has been the recession, and the effect that has had on revenues coming in to newspapers."
Rich Mead, executive director of Northcliffe Media, the parent company of South West Wales Media, said: "Spencer is a first-class journalist and has made a massive contribution.
"He played a major role in creating Wales's largest selling newspaper after overtaking Trinity Mirror's Cardiff-based titles, the Western Mail and South Wales Echo, to become the largest-selling regional newspaper in Wales."
Deputy Editor Cathy Duncan has been appointed Acting Editor until a permanent appointment is made.
Comments
by Jiffy
Sunday, September 30 2012, 8:24AM
“leighrichards - There's nothing to stop Welsh speakers from running their own newspaper. Other than a slight problem, no one would bother buying it.
As for lost readers. This newspaper have been losing readers for years. Claiming they're upset over the Welsh language is without a doubt pathetic.”
by immigrant1
Sunday, September 30 2012, 7:41AM
“leighrichards - just because people are anti-Welsh language doesn't mean their anti-Wales. We need a strong Wales, and the way to achieve that isn't by wasting money on a dead language that the vast majority in Wales don't want to use. It increase costs and hold back the economy.
Another thing that people like you just don't get is that you can have a national identity without having your own language. Scottish people have their own identity, but speak English. Same with Americans, Canadians, Australians and many other.
The Welsh language is dead. Get over it.”
by Neathboy234
Saturday, September 29 2012, 2:59PM
“leighrichards I couldn't agree more, lets be honest some of the letters U have mentioned are just pure racist.”
by leighrichards
Saturday, September 29 2012, 2:25PM
“i hope the new editor will abandon the post's inexplicable policy of continually running bigoted letters denigrating the welsh language and all aspects of welsh identity......i know it has lost a lot of readers as a result of its policy of giving a regular platform to these wales hating bigots..........”
by Neathboy234
Saturday, September 29 2012, 10:54AM
“I know of someone who has just retired from the steelworks after 48 years, and he tells me he's looking for a part time job now that he's gone”
by RichardCorso
Saturday, September 29 2012, 7:37AM
“Your industry is going through yet another change with paperless media coverage, hand portable media devices and almost instant news through internet services such as Twitter. Long gone are the days of jobs for life your 43 years in journalism must be a local record. Good luck with your retirement”