Coventry Telegraph editor 'suspended over use of Twitter'
Darren Parkin, the editor of Trinity Mirror’s local newspaper the Coventry Telegraph, has been suspended.
Rival paper the Coventry Observer claims Parkin is being investigated by Trinity Mirror ‘over his use of Twitter’ after concerns were raised by his own staff.
Parkin is believed to have been escorted from the newspaper’s offices last Wednesday with staff notified of his absence the following morning.
His usually busy twitter page (@CovTelEd) has not been updated since June 6 when he commented on the new Coventry football strip.
As chief reporter on the Solihull Times and later Birmingham Metro News, Parkin won a young journalist of the year award three years running and soon became the UK’s youngest newspaper editor age 24 at the Wolverhampton News and was appointed editor of the Coventry Telegraph in 2009.
The Coventry Observer reports that Parkin is understood to be on full pay pending the investigation though “few of his staff expect him to return.”
A spokesman for Trinity Mirror would only say that a member of staff in Coventry has been suspended at this time.