Assistant Editor Ian Walker has been appointed Associate Editor;
Executive Features Editor Charlotte Ross has been appointed Assistant Editor (Features and Online);
Political correspondent Nic Cecil becomes Deputy Political Editor and Craig Woodhouse becomes Political Correspondent;
Deputy Art Director Lee Bearton has been appointed News Arts Director;
David Cohen, who spearheads the Evening Standard's The Dispossessed and the Get London Reading campaigns, has been appointed Campaigns Editor in addition to being Chief Feature Writer;
Tim Nichols has been appointed Assistant Sports Editor in the recently created Sports Department for the Evening Standard and Independent newspapers;
Kara Dolman joins the Evening Standard as Deputy Features Editor. She was previously with Closer Magazine;
Rosamund Urwin who was previously in the Standard's City Department has been appointed a writer and columnist in the features department;
Victoria Stewart has been appointed Features Commissioning Editor and Jasmine Gardner a features writer.
Reporters Ben Moore-Bridger, Mark Blunden and Miranda Bryant have joined the staff strengthening the Standard's news team for the Olympics.
The appointments come, says the Evening Standard, as recent figures from the National Readership Survey showed that the Evening Standard is now read by 1.6 million daily, more people than the Daily Telegraph, the Times and the Guardian on weekdays.
The NRS data shows 120,000 extra readers have flocked to the paper in the past year, during which it has won awards for its quality journalism including breaking news, incisive comment and campaigns for the Dispossessed and Get London Reading campaign.
The figures, the statement continues, which covered the 12 months to September, also showed that the Standard has more upmarket readers in London than any national newspaper.
The Standard circulates more than 700,000 copies a day.
