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Incoming Observer editor John Mulholland has made his first appointment, hiring sister paper the Guardian's star columnist Catherine Bennett.

Bennett, who has worked at the Guardian since the early 1990s as a feature writer and then columnist in the G2 features section, will join the Observer in January.

Bennett: has worked at the Mail on Sunday and the Sunday Times. Both titles are owned by Guardian News & Media, which also publishes the MediaGuardian website.

"This is a very exciting time to be joining the Observer, it's something new and I am really looking forward to working for John Mulholland," said Bennett. "I'm sorry to be leaving G2, having had a brilliant time there."

The hiring is Mulholland's first since the announcement in October that he would replace Roger Alton, who has edited the paper since 1998, at the end of the year.

Mulholland said: "Catherine Bennett is a fiercely intelligent and spirited columnist.

"I'm a huge fan and delighted that she is going to be both writing for the Observer and also contributing to discourse and debate on the paper at our weekly politics and leader conferences."

Bennett started her career at the now defunct magazine Honey before joining the Sunday Telegraph magazine as features editor.

She then worked at the Mail on Sunday as a reporter, Sunday Times as a feature writer, the Times as a feature writer and the Sunday Correspondent, which launched in 1989. She joined the Guardian after the Sunday paper folded one year later.

this story had other purporses,seems like it as it points out that the mail on sunday and sunday times are owned by the same company as the guardian, g2 and the guardian website. it just shows how an elite can control so much of the media, and even though bennett is moving ot a totally different paper, it is the sisiter paper of the guardian which therefore still control what she writes and what is published.