From May 1, 2022, the Executive Director, Digital Operations and Publications of The Punch Newspapers, Mr Adeyeye Joseph will take over as the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of the company.
Joseph’s elevation by the board of directors of Punch Nigeria Limited according to a report in the newspaper on April 1 followed the retirement of the current Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief, Mr Ademola Osinubi on April 30, 2022.
A multiple media award winner, Joseph was the newspaper’s controller, digital and publications before his elevation into the board of the company as executive director, digital and publications in 2016.
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He started his journalism career in THISDAY where he worked in all of the newspaper’s titles, and its special publication, Glitterati, at different times, before leaving as a chief correspondent to join PUNCH in 2005.
Osinubi, was former editor of The PUNCH, Saturday PUNCH and Sunday PUNCH, was general manager before he was appointed managing director/editor-in-chief.
Osinubi who was in the services of the company for 45 years and served as managing director/editor-in-chief for 27 years will remain on the newspaper’s board of directors as a non-executive director. He will also continue to serve as a trustee of the Punch Media Foundation.
