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Brexit's Tabloid Champion Is Heading for the Exit Too
Paul Dacre’s departure as editor is an opportunity for change at the Daily Mail.
A newsroom reign of terror is over.
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Paul Dacre made his reputation as an old-fashioned, foul-mouthed, newspaper editor who terrorized successive British governments by brilliantly mirroring the prejudices of his “Middle England” readership. What he’s never been during his 26 years running the Daily Mail is a website editor.
While other old-world newspapers from the New York Times to the Daily Telegraph have long embraced their “integrated digital newsrooms” and the notion that the web comes first, Dacre has studiously kept the Daily Mail as distinct as possible from its celeb-loving sister site, MailOnline.