Herald editor-in-chief Tim Murphy steps down

Herald editor-in-chief Tim Murphy steps down
By Pattrick Smellie April 10 (BusinessDesk) - The New Zealand Herald's editor-in-chief for the last decade, Tim Murphy, has stepped down from the role in favour of the Herald's current editor, Shayne Currie, who will move into an expanded editorial role. Murphy leaves the country's largest newspaper after a 30-year career and at a time of unprecedented media industry change. Murphy took on the editorship of the Herald in 2001 at the age of 37, making him at the time the youngest editor ever appointed to the venerable publication, affec...