Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Paul Michael Dacre (/ ˈ d eɪ k ər /; born 14 November 1948) is an English journalist and the former long-serving editor of the British tabloid the Daily Mail. [1] [2] 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.
In August 2007, she appeared in the documentary, The Daily Mail Diet, on Al Gore's Current TV internet video site, where she showed a painting of Daily Mail editor, Paul Dacre behind a prawn cocktail, which Kelly said represented "a little bit of taste, but very predictable, bland and no surprises—it's from a different age where people had a ...
The Dublin-based Hot Press criticised the earlier parts of the book as "quite tedious", but found the coverage of Paul Dacre's editorship "riveting" and concluded that it was "undoubtedly one of the non-fiction books of the year". [4]
It comes after he withdrew from the race to become the next chairman of media watchdog Ofcom.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
In a July 2011 appearance in front of a parliamentary committee, a day after former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks had been arrested and bailed in light of the News International phone hacking scandal, Dacre told them that he had never "countenanced" phone hacking or blagging at his newspaper, as both acts were clearly "criminal". [27]
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
He continued as editor of the Mail until 1992, being followed by former Evening Standard editor Paul Dacre. This was to prevent Dacre from joining The Times following an offer from Rupert Murdoch. [10] English became chairman and editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers, parent company of both the Mail and the Standard.