News Ltd appoints Toni Hetherington to new network sports digital role

Tim Burrowes

September 21, 2010 7:02

News Ltd has appointed one of its most experienced editors to a new senior digital role aimed at boosting the company’s online sports readership and creating masthead sports apps.

Toni Hetherington, a former editor of mX and editor in chief of Leader Community Newspapers, has been appointed to the new position of network sports editor.

She is currently deputy editor of the Sunday Herald Sun and has also been chief sub and night editor of The Daily Telegraph.

Hetherington, who starts the new role on Monday, is the third member of News Ltd’s new Sports Hub team.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.