Guardian News & Media Director Tim Brooks to leave

Tim Brooks, managing director of Britain's Guardian News & Media, is to leave the company as part of a restructuring of the business, GNM's parent Guardian Media Group said on Tuesday. Brooks has presided over a period of international expansion of the trust-owned newspaper's website, and a pursuit of phone-hacking allegations at Murdoch-owned tabloid rival News of the World.

He has been with the organisation for four and a half years, and his post will become redundant, with commercial members of the Guardian News & Media executive committee reporting directly to GMG Chief Executive Andrew Miller after March 31. "He has played a crucial role in the Guardian's ongoing digital transformation, and he has led the business with great integrity at a time of significant change and sometimes difficult choices," Miller said in a statement.