News Corporation hires Macandrew for corporate role

ASIA-PACIFIC - News Corporation has appointed Alice Macandrew (pictured) to the newly-created role of director of corporate communications for Asia and Europe.

Macandrew previously worked as a partner at financial agency Finsbury, where she spent seven years as a specialist in the retail, telecommunications and media sectors.

She will be responsible for providing a unified corporate comms strategy and coordinating the comms across the European and Asian businesses. She will be based in London and report in to group director of strategy and corporate affairs for Europe & Asia Matthew Anderson.

‘In this changing environment, it is more important than ever thatcompanies communicate clearly with the market,' said Macandrew.

Macandrew left Finsbury in 2007 as a career break to concentrate on her family.