Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre to step down in November
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Paul Dacre will stand down as editor of the Daily Mail in November, ending an era that saw him become one of the most influential editors in Fleet Street history, not to mention a figure of significant power across British politics. Mr Dacre, who has been at the helm of the newspaper since 1992, will take a “step back” to serve as chairman and editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers, which owns the Daily Mail. “Without the Mail, Gary McKinnon, Shaker Aamer and Marine A would probably be in jail and Afghan British Army translators, whose lives are now at risk, would not have the chance to live here.” Mr Dacre oversaw a rise in circulation of 805,000 copies in his first decade at the Mail at a time when readership of print news was shrinking overall. DMGT chairman Lord Rothermere hailed Mr Dacre as the “greatest Fleet Street editor of his generation” and praised him for holding power to account through campaigns and investigations.
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