"from May 2008. He took over the place previously held by the ""Daily Mail""'s editor-in-chief Paul Dacre, who had served on the body from 1999 to April 2008. The PCC issued two reports, in 2007 and 2009, which were compiled in ignorance of the significant information from the ""Mail"" group about the hacking of its journalists’ phones. According to ""The Guardian"" journalist Nick Davies, whose revelations had resulted in the ""News of the World"" phone hacking trial and subsequent conviction of Andy Coulson, this reinforced News International's ""rogue reporter"" defence. The PCC's 2009 report, which had rejected Davies' claims of"
"Daily Mail The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper published in London. Founded in 1896, it is the United Kingdom's second-biggest-selling daily newspaper after ""The Sun"". Its sister paper ""The Mail on Sunday"" was launched in 1982, while Scottish and Irish editions of the daily paper were launched in 1947 and 2006 respectively. Content from the paper appears on the MailOnline website, although the website is managed separately and has its own editor. The paper is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, a great-grandson of one of the original co-founders,"
"£88,000 for the two holdings and under the exchange rate of late March 2016, he is believed to have received £460,000 since 2011. Paul Dacre Paul Michael Dacre (; born 14 November 1948) is an English journalist and the former long-serving editor of the British newspaper the ""Daily Mail"". He is also Editor-in-Chief of DMG Media, which publishes the ""Daily Mail"", ""The Mail on Sunday"", the free daily tabloid ""Metro"", the Mailonline website, and other titles. He is a Director of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc (Associated Newspapers' holding group) and was a member of the Press Complaints"
"Paul Dacre Paul Michael Dacre (; born 14 November 1948) is an English journalist and the former long-serving editor of the British newspaper the ""Daily Mail"". He is also Editor-in-Chief of DMG Media, which publishes the ""Daily Mail"", ""The Mail on Sunday"", the free daily tabloid ""Metro"", the Mailonline website, and other titles. He is a Director of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc (Associated Newspapers' holding group) and was a member of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) from 1999 to 2008. He left the PCC in order to become Chairman of the PCC's Editors' Code of Practice Committee"
"the ""Daily Mail"" in July 1992. Dacre had turned down an offer from Rupert Murdoch to edit ""The Times"" believing that Murdoch ""would not accept my desire to edit with freedom"". It was his approach to the job of editor, ""hard-working, disciplined, confrontational"" according to Roy Greenslade, which had led Murdoch to attempt to hire him. For the ""Mail"", Dacre was considered important enough to necessitate sidelining someone thought unsackable; English became editor-in-chief and Chairman of Associated Newspapers, then the parent company. Dacre was known in the summer of 1992 to be against Britain's membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism"
"from April 2008. His departure from the post was announced in early December 2016. In the British Press Awards, organised by the Society of Editors, Dacre's ""Daily Mail"" won the ""Newspaper of the Year"" category on six occasions, twice as often as any other title. On 1 October 2018, Dacre became Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Associated Newspapers and stood down as Editor of the ""Daily Mail"" in the following month. Dacre was born and grew up in the north London suburb of Arnos Grove in Enfield. His father, Peter, was a journalist on the ""Sunday Express"" whose work included show"
"offer. Dacre retired as editor of the ""Daily Mail"" but remains editor-in-chief of the group. In late 2013, the paper moved its London printing operation from the city's Docklands area to a new £50 million plant in Thurrock, Essex. There are Scottish editions of both the ""Daily Mail"" and ""Mail on Sunday"", with different articles and columnists. In August 2016, the ""Daily Mail"" began a partnership with ""The People's Daily"", the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party. This includes publishing articles in the MailOnline produced by The People's Daily. The agreement has been suggested to give the paper an"
"it was announced that Dacre's period as editor of the ""Daily Mail"" would end in time for his 70th birthday in November 2018. At the beginning of October 2018, he would take up a new role as chairman of Associated Newspapers, which is part of the holding company DMGT (Daily Mail & General Trust). He has been editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers since 1998 and would retain that title; he would, however,be giving up his seat on the board of the holding company ""prior to the end of the financial year"". The editor of ""The Mail on Sunday"", Geordie Greig, was"
"than 100,000 people, including the homeless and unemployed. In 2010 he was appointed Editorial Director of ""The Independent"", ""The Independent on Sunday"" and ""i"" (Independent Print Ltd) and the ""Evening Standard"". In March 2012, Greig became editor of ""The Mail on Sunday"" while remaining a director of Independent Print Ltd and ""The London Evening Standard"". He succeeded Paul Dacre as editor of the ""Daily Mail"" in September 2018. In addition to his editorial duties, Greig has literary interests, for instance writing the foreword for the ""Forward Book of Poetry"" (1999). His 2011 book, ""The Kingmaker"" is about his grandfather, Louis"
"On 5 May 1946, the ""Daily Mail"" celebrated its Golden Jubilee. Winston Churchill was the chief guest at the banquet and toasted it with a speech. Newsprint rationing in the Second World War had forced the ""Daily Mail"" to cut its size to four pages, but the size gradually increased through the 1950s. The ""Daily Mail"" was transformed by its editor during the 1970s and 1980s, David English. He had been editor of the ""Daily Sketch"" from 1969 to 1971, when it closed. Part of the same group from 1953, the ""Sketch"" was absorbed by its sister title, and English"
"Geordie Greig George Carron ""Geordie"" Greig (born 16 December 1960 in Lambeth, London) is an English journalist and editor of the ""Daily Mail"". Greig is the son of Sir Carron Greig and Monica Stourton, granddaughter of the 24th Lord Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton. Members of his father's family have been royal courtiers for three generations — including his twin sister Laura, who was a lady-in-waiting to Diana, Princess of Wales. He attended Eton College and St Peter's College, Oxford. Greig began his career as a reporter for the ""South East London and Kentish Mercury"" newspaper, before joining the ""Daily Mail"""
"Col Allan, who now served as editor-in-chief at the Murdoch-owned ""New York Post"" from 2001 to 2016. Columnists include Piers Akerman, Tim Blair, Miranda Devine and education specialist Maralyn Parker. Journalists include Joe Hildebrand, Samantha Maiden, Andrew Clennell, Mark Morri, Nick Tabakoff, Edward Boyd, Ashleigh Gleeson, Laura Banks and Daniel Meers. Past writers for the newspaper include Lucian Boz, Mark Day, Peter Frilingos, Mike Gibson, Peter Holder and David Luff. ""The Daily Telegraph"" website hosts the blogs of several columnists.<br> Enhanced Media Metrics Australia (EMMA) figures show that 2,983,000 people in NSW read The Daily Telegraph in print or digitally"
"but not its leaders, or the TUC. Machray died in 1977. Douglas Machray Douglas Basil Machray (1 September 1911 - 1977) was a British newspaper editor, and the editor of the ""Daily Herald"" from 1957 to 1960. Douglas Basil Machray was born in Lancashire, England, on 1 September 1911. Machray was 46 when he took over from the sacked Sydney Elliott as editor of the ""Daily Herald"" in 1957, having previously been in sub-editing, then production editor. Machray is perhaps best remembered for shifting the paper's stance to being in favour of unilateral nuclear disarmament, which was supported by the"
"Val Hennessy Val Hennessy is a British journalist who writes for the ""Daily Mail"". Hennessy taught English and drama before commencing a writing and journalistic career with the ""Brighton Voice"", ""Peace News"" and ""Big Scream"". Hennessy later became a Fleet Street freelance journalist, an associate editor of ""Time Out"" and a columnist for ""Saga Magazine"". She was described by Auberon Waugh as ""a handsome if elderly (by punk standards) and inescapably middle-class journalist"". She is best known for her work as chief literary critic for the ""Daily Mail"" from 1989 to 2004. As of 2014, she continues to write for"
"as Editor of ""Today"", where he spent two years, before moving to become Editor of the ""Boston Herald"", and almost immediately Editor-in-Chief of the ""New York Daily News"". In 1996, he moved on to Channel One Television, then worked for DMG New Media and DMG Front of Mind. In 2003, he again became Editor-in-Chief of the ""New York Daily News"", leaving in 2010 after his wife, Debbie Hickman, had become ill with cancer. Hickman died in January 2014. Martin Dunn Martin Dunn (born 26 January 1955) is a British journalist and former newspaper editor. Dunn attended Dudley Grammar School, then"
"""Daily Mail"" (1995), ""The Sun"" (1999), ""Daily Express"" (2002), ""London Lite"" (2005–2009), MailOnline (2009–2012), the New York Daily News Online (2012–2014) and ""Metro"" (2014–present). In 2004 Young left the ""Daily Express"" after allegedly being punched by its then-owner Richard Desmond. Desmond, who denied attacking Young, was reportedly unhappy that a story about the death of 1960s pop star Carl Wayne had not been included in the newspaper. Young took the ""Daily Express"" to an employment tribunal in 2005 but a settlement was reached the day before the hearing was due to begin. The terms of the settlement were not made"
"Daily Express The Daily Express is a daily national middle-market tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom. It is the flagship of Express Newspapers, a subsidiary of Northern & Shell (which is owned by publisher Trinity Mirror). It was first published as a broadsheet in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson. Its sister paper, the Sunday Express, was launched in 1918. In December 2016, it had an average daily circulation of 391,626. The paper was acquired by Richard Desmond in 2000. Hugh Whittow was the editor from February 2011 until he retired in March 2018. Gary Jones took over as editor-in-chief in"
"reporter at the ""Daily Mail"" in 1990. He attracted attention for his Princess Diana-related exclusives. He later became news editor and finally assistant editor in 2006. He joined ""The Daily Telegraph"" in October 2006 as head of news. He became deputy editor in September 2007. As deputy editor, Gallagher took the lead on exclusives relating to the MPs' expenses scandal. In November 2009, he was promoted to editor. Gallagher relinquished his post with immediate effect in January 2014. The following April he became joint deputy editor of the ""Daily Mail"" and shared the role with John Steafel. Gallagher was appointed"
"L. Parker (1901–1905), David Williamson (1914–1951), G. B. Newman (1955–1977), Mary Jenkins (1978–1986), P.J. Failes (1987), and Michael and Caroline Fluskey (1991). The majority of content appearing in the ""Daily Mail"" and ""Mail on Sunday"" printed newspapers also forms part of that included in the ""MailOnline"" website. ""MailOnline"" is free to read and funded by advertising. In 2011 ""MailOnline"" was the second most visited English-language newspaper website worldwide. It has since then become the most visited newspaper website in the world, with over 189.5 million visitors per month, and 11.7 million visitors daily, as of January 2014. Thailand's military junta"
"at the age of 90. Arthur Brittenden Charles Arthur Brittenden (23 October 1924 – 25 April 2015) was a British newspaper editor. Brittenden worked as a journalist at the ""Yorkshire Evening Post"", then rose to become Assistant Editor of the ""Daily Express"" by the early 1960s. In 1966, he moved to become Editor of the ""Daily Mail"". He held the post until 1971, when the paper merged with the ""Daily Sketch"", and he was replaced by ""Sketch"" editor David English. Brittenden later moved to News International, and from 1981 to 1987, he served as its Director of Corporate Relations. He"
"Col Allan Colin ""Col"" Allan (born 1953) is an Australian journalist. He served as the editor in chief of ""The Daily Telegraph"" and ""The Sunday Telegraph"" of Sydney, Australia and served as editor in chief of ""The New York Post"" from 2001 to 2016. According to a profile by Lloyd Grove, Allan grew up in Dubbo in the 1950s, preferring reading to the poor television reception in the rural area. After failing out of the Australian National University in Canberra, he took a job there at ""The Daily Liberal"". In 1974 he moved to Sydney as a reporter for ""The"
"led a chant of ""fuck the ""Daily Mail"""" (as Sands's article ran in this newspaper) during one of their live shows. ""Kerrang!"" magazine, in particular, took offense at the article. In February 2008 she was appointed editor-in-chief of the UK edition of ""Reader's Digest"". In February 2009 it was announced that she would be taking up the role of deputy editor on ""London Evening Standard"". She became editor of the ""London Evening Standard"" following Geordie Greig's departure for the ""Mail on Sunday"" in March 2012. In January 2017, she was appointed editor of the BBC Radio 4 ""Today"" programme and"
"preceded by Jonathan Lee, who joined in 2008. Lee was previously editor of the ""Shetland Times"", but left after a vote of no confidence from colleagues. Previous editors of ""The Mail"" include Steve Brauner, Sara Hadwin, Donald Martin, Keith Sutton, Tom Welsh and Joe Gorman. Former Lancashire Telegraph news editor Vanessa Sims is currently the editor of the paper. The Mail (Cumbria) The Mail, known previously as the North-West Evening Mail (1987-2017), is a daily, local newspaper in the United Kingdom, printed every evening. It is based in Barrow-in-Furness. ""The Mail"" was founded as the ""North-Western Daily Mail"" in 1898,"
"the ""Daily Sketch"", which had been published as a tabloid by the same company. The publisher of the ""Mail"", the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), is listed on the London Stock Exchange. Circulation figures according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations in November 2017 show gross daily sales of 1,383,932 for the ""Daily Mail"". According to a December 2004 survey, 53% of ""Daily Mail"" readers voted for the Conservative Party, compared to 21% for Labour and 17% for the Liberal Democrats. The main concern of Viscount Rothermere, the current chairman and main shareholder, is that the circulation be maintained."
"ceremony. English married Irene Mainwood in 1954, and they had three children. He died in London. David English (editor) Sir David English (26 May 1931 — 10 June 1998) was a British journalist and newspaper editor, best known for his two-decade editorship of the ""Daily Mail"". English was born in Oxford, and educated at Bournemouth School. Aged 16, he joined the local ""Christchurch Times"" and then had a brief period with the ""News"" in Portsmouth, moving to London before he was 20. English began his national newspaper career at the ""Daily Mirror"" in 1951, before moving to the ""Daily Sketch"""
"Roger Wood (journalist) Roger Wood (4 October 1925 – 2 November 2012) was the editor of the ""Daily Express"" and ""New York Post"". Wood was born in Antwerp, Belgium, and spoke no English until he was seven when he moved with his family to Great Britain. He served in the Royal Air Force in World War II. He graduated from Oxford University. In 1962, aged 37, he became the youngest editor of the ""Daily Express"", succeeding Edward Pickering, editor while Edwards was deputy editor, Wood was both preceded and succeeded by Bob Edwards. In 1975 he began working for Rupert"
"Charles Sinclair (businessman) Charles Sinclair (born 4 April 1948) is a British businessman. He serves as Chairman of Associated British Foods. Charles James Francis Sinclair, only son of Sir George Sinclair and Katharine Jane Burdekin, was born on 4 April 1948. He attended Winchester College and graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford. Sinclair joined the Daily Mail and General Trust in 1975. He served as its Chief Executive Officer from 1989 to September 2008. He served on the Board of Directors of the Euromoney Institutional Investor from November 1985 to 30 September 2008, of Thomson Reuters from January 1994 to 6"
"Julia Langdon Julia Mary Langdon (born 1946) is a British journalist and writer. A political journalist since 1971, she became a lobby correspondent in 1974. Leaving ""The Guardian"" in 1984, she was appointed political editor of the ""Daily Mirror"", the first woman to hold the position on a national newspaper in the UK. Later, Langdon was political editor of ""The Sunday Telegraph"". Having children, however, was one of the reasons she left the parliamentary lobby in the 1990s. Langdon has been a freelance writer since 1992, and has written a biography of the Labour politician Mo Mowlam (2000) and is"
"Game,"" a psychological thriller. In 2015, it featured in Laurence Simpson's comic novel about the tabloid media, ""According to The Daily Mail."" And in 2017, a thinly-disguised version of the ""Daily Mail,"" called simply ""The Mail"" appears in Michael Paraskos's dark satire based on the Donald Trump presidency, ""Rabbitman"", in which the newspaper's fictional editor is subjected to a lobotomy in a dystopian post-Brexit Britain to try and cure him of ""nasty little paranoid thoughts about scroungers, traitors and foreigners."" Source: Daily Mail The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper published in London. Founded in 1896, it"
"a number of Americans and British in each other countries' press corp, including editors, correspondents, journalists and columnists. Individuals born in the United States active in the British press corp include the ""FT""s news editor Peter Spiegel, ""Daily Telegraph"" columnist Janet Daley, and ""Guardian"" columnists Tim Dowling and Hadley Freeman. Originally from the UK were Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) and the current editor of Vogue, Anna Wintour. The current CEO of The New York Times Company is the former Director-General of the BBC (effectively a CEO), Mark Thompson. The current editor-in-chief of the London-based ""Guardian"" since 2015, Katharine Viner was previously"
"editorial writer and columnist L.T. Anderson, associate editor and two-time runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize. Anderson later moved to the rival ""Daily Mail"" as a columnist after he was passed over for an editorial position at the ""Gazette"", and often used his ""Daily Mail"" column to snipe at his former employer. The ""Daily Mail"" was founded in 1914 by former Alaska Governor Walter Eli Clark and remained the property of his heirs until 1987. Governor Clark described the newspaper as an ""independent Republican"" publication. In 1987, the Clark heirs sold the paper to the Toronto-based Thomson Newspapers. The new owners"
"newspaper's editor is the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, who replaced Sarah Sands. Ms. Sands replaced Geordie Greig following his departure to ""The Mail on Sunday"" in March 2012. Veronica Wadley was the newspaper's editor between 2002 and 2009. Max Hastings was editor from 1996 until he retired in 2002. The ""London Evening Standard"", although a regional newspaper, does cover national and international news, though with an emphasis on London-centred news (especially in its features pages), covering building developments, property prices, traffic schemes, politics, the congestion charge and, in the ""Londoner's Diary"" page, gossip on the social scene."
"MailOnline MailOnline (also known as dailymail.co.uk) is the website of the ""Daily Mail"", a newspaper in the United Kingdom, and of its sister paper ""The Mail on Sunday"". MailOnline is a division of DMG Media, part of Associated Newspapers Ltd. Launched in 2003, MailOnline was made into a separately managed site in 2006 under the editorship of Martin Clarke and general management of James Bromley. It is now the most visited English-language newspaper website in the world, with over 11.34m visitors daily in August 2014. The website has an international readership, featuring separate home pages for the UK, USA, India"