So farewell Roger Highfield, Telegraph science editor and leader of the Fleet Street science pack. The paper will need a big name replacement as the loss is huge. It is hardly salad days in science reporting, as this piece in MediaGuardian shows. Meanwhile, Highfield's departure means the Telegraph has experienced an almost complete changeover of specialist writers in the past 18 months, since the arrival of Associated executives to run the news desk. Only Thomas Harding (defence) and David Millward (transport) appear to be in the same jobs, with Charles Clover, environment editor, and Joshua Rozenberg, legal editor working freelance to avoid the news desk. Here's the roll call of departees - some resigned, some were sacked:
Celia Hall, medical editor Liz Lightfoot, education editor Caroline Davis, royal correspondent David Derbyshire, consumer affairs editor Roger Highfield, science editor Nic Fleming, science correspondent Sarah Womack, social affairs correspondent Jonathan Petre, religious affairs correspondent John Steele, crime correspondent Nigel Reynolds, arts correspondent George Jones, political editor Toby Helm, deputy political editor Brendan Carlin, political correspondent Rachel Sylvester, assistant editor, politics Alice Thomson, assistant editor, comment
