Hitchen lands New York Daily News post.

(From Guardian Unlimited)

Alexander Hitchen, former chief reporter at The People and deputy picture editor of the News of the World, has been appointed managing editor in charge of pictures at the New York Daily News.

It follows his eight-year stint on the National Enquirer, during which he helped to break a story that earned two Pulitzer Prize nominations - the first and only time the supermarket tabloid was so honoured.

Hitchen was one of the team that revealed vice-presidential candidate John Edwards, whose wife was dying from cancer, had fathered a child with his mistress. It became one of the biggest US political stories in 2010.

Hitchen has …