NME online editor Luke Lewis has announced that he will be leaving the IPC title in the New Year.

Lewis confirmed earlier today on Twitter that he will be joining social editorial site Buzzfeed.

He joined IPC as deputy editor of NME.com in 2008, and was previously associate editor of Q at Bauer.

Lewis, who has also written for The Guardian, Telegraph.co.uk, The Independent, helped double NME.com's traffic from 4m monthly unique users to 8m in his first year. ...