Thomas promoted to head of classified advertising

THE Scotsman newspaper group has a new head of classified advertising.

Steven Thomas has been promoted from within The Scotsman Publications Ltd, to succeed Caroline Blyth, who is leaving to run her own training business.

At the end of the month, he assumes responsibility for all classified sales across the TSPL portfolio, including The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, Edinburgh Evening News and scotsman.com.

He was made general sales manager two years ago.