• paidContent, Thursday, November 4, 2010 1:17 PM

Gurtej Sandhu is on his way out as Times Newspapers' digital director, paidContent is reporting. This after Sandhu was brought on to relaunch the News Corp titles as paid digital products in January. Next stop? No word yet, but paidContent said to expect an announcement before February.

Prior to his work for Times Newspapers, Sandhu served as SVP of new media and information technology at News Corp's Star TV channel in India. "His departure coincides with the completion of The Times project's big first phase and with Tuesday's disclosure of its sales figures for the first four months," paidContent notes. And Sandhu isn't the only News International exec in need of a new gig. David McAdam, who development and launch of iPad editions for News International's mass-market titles as project manager recently left the company. Also, as paidContent points out, The Sun's online editor Pete Picton is joining News Corp's Daily Planet project, to develop a mass-market national U.S. title on tablets.

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