Arif Durrani

Group news editor

Arif has been with Brand Republic Group since September 2008 and is responsible for managing the daily news output across Brand Republic, Campaign, Marketing and Media Week. His team produces seven digital bulletins a day and feeds the news pages of the weekly magazines.
Arif on twitter: @Durranimix

Relevant experience: Before joining Haymarket, Arif was news editor at Centaur’s media, marketing, advertising and design web portal. Prior to that he was guide editor and feature writer on a media and marketing title at Emap.

NCTJ-qualified, Arif entered journalism with stints at local newspapers after graduating in 1997. He also spent five years in corporate comms and customer publishing, and was launch editor of FIPP’s revamped Magazine World with John Brown.

Favourite ad: Guinness 'Surfer', AMV BBDO (Uninspired, but at least I didn’t say Sony Balls)

Favourite track: Paul Weller, Wild Wood (Similarly uninspired)

One thing not a lot of people know about me: My mum taught Andrew Rawnsley English (always had a talent apparently)

If I wasn’t slaving away at Haymarket I’d be...? Sitting on a beach making a dent in that growing pile of ‘must-read’ books.

Latest articles from Arif Durrani

MediaCom partners with InMobi to develop mobile campaigns: 25 May 2012; MediaCom has formed a partnership with the independent mobile advertising network, InMobi, to enable the agency to build and develop its rich media mobile advertising offering throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Media360: The Week's commercial leader talks about adapting to the iPad: 22 May 2012; It's been six months since Dennis Publishing launched an iPad version of its newsweekly, The Week, and the publisher's head of advertising, David Weeks, shares the challenges and learnings so far.

Newspaper Marketing Agency relaunches as Newsworks amid 'need to think differently': 21 May 2012; The Newspaper Marketing Agency, the organisation that has promoted the strengths of the national press sector to advertisers since 2003, has re-launched today as Newsworks, a move said to recognise that "the old language of press or paper doesn't fit any more".

Channel 4 advertising feels loss of Big Brother: 14 May 2012; Channel 4 has reported a near £20 million fall in ad revenues for its main network in its first year without reality stalwart show Big Brother, but losses were partially offset by rights sales for The Inbetweeners and double-digit growth in so-called 'future media revenues'.

The Sun on Sunday claims "success" despite tumbling sales: 14 May 2012; News International's commercial chief has hailed the first 10 weeks of The Sun on Sunday as a "success story with both readers and advertisers", despite continued falls in copy sales.

Newspapers are better suited to Saturdays: 11 May 2012; Printed newspapers are much better suited to the slower pace of Saturdays than midweek working lives, a trend publishers have tracked for sometime but one that is only truly transparent as an industry in new ABC figures today.

PPA Conference: Tim Brooks on The Times 'paywall failure' and Mail's 'world success': 09 May 2012; News International's experiment with a non-penetrable paywall around websites for The Times and Sunday Times has been a failure, while the rise of Mail Online has been the "world success story", according to former Guardian leader, Tim Brooks.

PPA Conference: Tim Brooks on the new found optimism for professional publishers: 09 May 2012; Tim Brooks, the former managing director of Guardian News & Media, identifies a new sense of optimism setting into the publishing industry, after two years of concern amid sweeping change.

PPA Conference: Lord Hunt does not think advertisers should take a key role in press regulation: 09 May 2012; Lord Hunt, chairman of the embattled Press Complaints Commission, does not believe advertisers should be required to play a lead role in ensuring all major newspaper and magazine publishers agree to be governed by the industry body in the future.

Future readies Total Film iPad edition: 09 May 2012; Total Film, Future's movie brand, is preparing to launch an interactive monthly iPad edition on Friday (11 May), priced at £3.99.

Vince Cable: 'I certainly do feel vindicated': 07 May 2012; Vince Cable, the business secretary stripped of handling News Corporation's bid to buy BSkyB amid doubts about his impartiality, has admitted to feeling "vindicated" as successor Jeremy Hunt faces public ridicule for his perceived handling of the process.

News Corp board expresses 'full confidence' in Rupert Murdoch: 03 May 2012; News Corporation board members have issued an "unanimous statement of support" for Rupert Murdoch, their embattled chief executive and chairman.

Rupert Murdoch's message to News International staff after MPs report: 02 May 2012; Following a damning report by MPs on a Select committee yesterday, and continued negative media coverage from many quarters, Rupert Murdoch, the 81-year-old media mogul, took the time to write to all News International staff. His full leaked memo follows...

Neil Jones to take commercial VP role at AOL Advertising Group: 02 May 2012; Neil Jones, the former Carat managing director, is poised to take a full-time role as vice president of commercial at AOL Advertising Group, following a consultancy stint.

Telegraph's Barclay Brothers lead UK media's rich elite: 25 April 2012; The owners of The Telegraph Group, Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, are Britain's richest newspaper proprietors, while Sir Martin Sorrell is the wealthiest ad man, according to The Sunday Times Rich List 2012.

Former Mindshare exec launches Getlunched network: 16 April 2012; Matt Bandy, a former digital strategist at Mindshare, has launched a social-business networking site called Getlunched, aimed squarely at the media and marketing communities.

Beta forced to rethink DaddyBeGood proposition: 16 April 2012; Ambitious plans by ad agency Beta to enter the world of publishing with, among other things, a website for fathers called DaddyBeGood, have had to be scaled back less than a year after launch.

AA reports UK ad spend lifted 2.7% in 2011: 12 April 2012; Despite the sluggish UK economy, advertisers increased their media spend by 2.7% in 2011 to total £16.1 billion, according to an Advertising Association report published today.

ABC to enable newspapers to split Saturday from weekday circ figures: 11 April 2012; National newspaper publishers will soon be able to report circulation figures of their individual titles in the week, with Saturday split out, as part of a move to bring transparency to the ad-trading process.

UKOM ditches Nielsen for comScore to handle online measurement: 04 April 2012; UKOM, the UK's industry-recognised online media measurement for advertisers, is ending its partnership with The Nielsen Company in favour of a new three year deal with rival comScore from 2013.