Ian Eckert
Internet Director
Ian Eckert is responsible for TSL's online activities and development. He is an award-winning new media expert and journalist with 10 years experience in online publishing.
Prior to joining TSL, Eckert was Digital Development Director at CMP Information where he had board responsibility for the group's digital portfolio and strategic development.
Before this, Eckert spent five years as a project director and head of content and production at Abacus E-Media where he specialised in electronic publishing working for clients in the UK and US including Thomson Financial, Wilmington Group, Centaur, Incisive Media and Financial News.
This followed four years at Portsmouth Publishing and Printing where he built up the new media team responsible for The News Online - winner of the New Media Age Award for Consumer Effectiveness and the Press Gazette Best Online Service. During this time he was also appointed assistant editor of The News, the south coast's top selling daily paper.
Eckert started his career in the regional press on the south coast before editing Early Times, the national children's newspaper, and then moving into consumer magazines spending five years in IPC's TV Weeklies division. He is currently Visiting Fellow in Online Journalism at Trinity and All Saints, University of Leeds.