Greig confirmed as Evening Standard editor

Tatler editor Geordie Greig will be the new editor of the Evening Standard after the deal to give Russian billionaire and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev a majority stake in the paper is completed at the end of the month, MediaGuardian reports today. Greig replaces Veronica Wadley.
Greig worked for the South East London and Deptford Mercury, the Daily Mail and Sunday Today, before joining the Sunday Times in 1987. He became the editor of Tatler in 1999.
The Standard's website reported today: "Veronica Wadley is stepping down after seven years as editor of the Evening Standard. Ms Wadley, who was formerly a deputy editor of the Daily Mail, is to pursue new interests in journalism."
Associated Newspapers' editor-in-chief Paul Dacre said: "I'd like to pay tribute to Veronica. She is a brilliant professional journalist who has brought great distinction and courage to editing the Standard which, despite some difficult times, is a very fine paper."
Wadley said: "I am very proud to have edited this great London newspaper and, with the huge support of the staff, to have built it up into a prize-winning newspaper. The Evening Standard is an important London institution held in equal measures of respect and affection. I sincerely hope it will have a secure future."