Arif Durrani

Group News Editor

Arif has been with Brand Republic Group since September 2008 and is responsible for managing the daily news output across Brand Republic, Campaign, Marketing and Media Week. His team produces seven digital bulletins a day and feeds the news pages of the weekly magazines.

Relevant experience: Before joining Haymarket, Arif was news editor at Centaur’s media, marketing, advertising and design web portal. Prior to that he was guide editor and feature writer on a media and marketing title at Emap.

NCTJ-qualified, Arif entered journalism with stints at local newspapers after graduating in 1997. He also spent five years in corporate comms and customer publishing, and was launch editor of FIPP’s revamped Magazine World with John Brown.

Favourite ad: Guinness ‘Surfer', AMV BBDO (Uninspired, but at least I didn’t say Sony Balls)

Favourite track: Paul Weller, Wild Wood (Similarly uninspired)

One thing not a lot of people know about me: My mum taught Andrew Rawnsley English (always had a talent apparently) 

If I wasn’t slaving away at Haymarket I’d be...? Sitting on a beach making a dent in that growing pile of ‘must-read’ books.