Veteran newsman Rick Neville leaves APN for lobbying role

Veteran newsman Rick Neville leaves APN for lobbying role
By Pattrick Smellie April 22 (BusinessDesk) - One of New Zealand's longest-serving editorial managers, Rick Neville, has taken early retirement from his role as chief operating officer for the local operations of APN News & Media to become a lobbyist for the newspaper industry. Neville, 64, took up the part-time Newspaper Publishers Association role after leaving APN at Easter, in a restructuring, many of which Neville said he had overseen in the past in roles at Independent Newspapers (now Fairfax Media) and APN, where he worked for nine and...