PPA appoints Harmsworth Media CEO Nina Wright as chair

The Professional Publishers’ Association (PPA) has announced Nina Wright, Harmsworth Media CEO, as its new chair.

Wright will take up the role in February, succeeding Immediate Media’s Tom Bureau after two years.

She will work with PPA CEO Sajeeda Merali to “deliver a new agenda” to transform how the PPA works with its members.

This change comes after the PPA decided to incorporate Magnetic as a “key strategic pillar” of its business last month. The outgoing CEO Sue Todd is joining NABS in the same role.

Harmsworth Media is a new division of Daily Mail and General Trust that houses the i and New Scientist, the science and tech magazine it acquired in March 2021. Harmsworth is the family name of Daily Mail proprietor Lord Rothermere, as well as of Lord Northcliffe, who founded DMGT in 1922.

Prior to Harmsworth Media, Wright worked as CEO of New Scientist, non-executive director of Haynes Publishing Group and chief commercial officer EMEA at UBM.
Merali commented:“Since joining in September, the PPA team and I have been working on developing a new direction, focussed on a forward-looking agenda and one with special interest media and PPA multiplatform members at the core.”
“With Nina’s strategic leadership skills and industry knowledge I’ve no doubt her time as Chair with be a valuable one and I’m looking forward to developing a formidable partnership with her and the board as we move into this new chapter for the PPA,” she added.
The PPA represents more than 250 companies from consumer magazine publishers, business-to-business and data information providers, customer magazine publishers to smaller independents.

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