The Yorkshire Post is set to announce Stuart Rayner as its new chief football writer – just weeks after editor James Mitchinson said he wanted ‘a girl’ to get the job.
Rayner (below), who covers Sunderland for North East newspaper The Journal, will take over from Richard Sutcliffe, who left the Post after 15 years last month to cover Sheffield United for The Athletic.
When the job was advertised, Mitchinson tweeted (above): “As a boy, I’d dream of getting this job. As it happens, I want a girl to have it.”
After being criticised for discrimination by some readers, he responded: “I’m saying, I’d love a woman to prevail in what is likely to be a very competitive process.
