Duckers steps down from biz editor post

Business Editor John Duckers is leaving The Birmingham Post after spending 18 years at the newspaper partly, he says, because of the pace of new technology in the media world.
He wrote: “I’m 57 next month, journalism is a high-pressure job, exacting and long hours…Also, the sector is going through a lot of change. Journalism has always developed and I vowed when I first started in the profession in 1973 that I would always keep up...At the point you feel it is getting away from you it is time to go.”
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