World's most profitable newspaper loses its editor

Former Business Week Asia editor Mark Clifford has lasted one year at the helm of the South China Morning Post. In the fishbowl that is Hong Kong, his depature made news headlines on the main local radio station, RTHK. Rebecca MacKinnon posts wisely on it here.

Before moving to the SCMP, Mark had spent some time revitalising Hong Kong's long-time #2 English newspaper, The Standard, into a business newspaper which is well-respected although nowhere near as profitable as the Kuok family's Post.

We can at least breathe a sigh of relief that Mark has not succumbed to the 30 pieces of silver of the PR industry. Rebecca reports that he will become Executive Director of think tank the Asia Business Council.