Bulgarian-language mass-circulation newspapers 24 Chassa, Trud, 168 Chassa and Sedmichen Trud are to recruit new editors-in-chief, Lyubomir Pavlov, president of Newspaper Group Bulgaria's editorial board, Lyubomir Pavlov, said on January 9 2010.

The current editors of Trud and 24 Chassa, Tosho Toshev and Venelina Gocheva, have been appointed as vice-presidents of the editorial board, with Nikola Kitsevski and Borislav Zyumbyulev appointed as acting editors-in-chief, respectively, until the process of interviewing and deciding on successors starts towards the end of February.

In the meantime, weeklies 168 Chassa and Sedmichen Trud will be managed temporarily by their current editors, Nikolai Penchev and Zoya Deyanova.

In addition, Toshev will increase his shareholding in the publishing company.

Gocheva will keep her shares in the company publishing the 24 Chassa and 168 Chassa papers, but the size of the stake has not been disclosed.

In mid-December, Austrian company BG Privatinvest, partnering with local businessmen Ognyan Donev and Lyubomir Pavlov, bought Newspaper Group Bulgaria from Germany's WAZ Media Group.