After 26 years in the post, Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, has said he will stand down in November.
Dacre, who has edited the often controversial but hugely popular newspaper since 1992, said he will be retiring from the post just before he turns 70.
Lord Rothermere, the chairman of parent company DMGT, said Dacre was “the greatest Fleet Street editor of his generation,” whose “many campaigns, investigations and crusades that have held power to account, given a voice to the voiceless and often set the political agenda through six prime ministerships.”
During Dacre’s tenure, The Daily Mail has campaigned for Brexit, justice for Stephen Lawrence and the end of plastic bags.
The paper has also courted controversy, however, with endless negative front pages on migrants and calling three High Court judges “Enemies of the People” following a ruling that the UK Government would require the consent of Parliament to give notice of Brexit.
Dacre will remain with the company as chairman and editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers. A new editor will be announced in “due course”, but likely candidates include Mail on Sunday editor, Geordie Greig, MailOnline editor Martin Clarke, and the Daily Mail’s deputy editor, Gerard Greaves.
According to ABC, the Daily Mail’s circulation stands at a still impressive 1.3m copies in a market that is witnessing heavy declines.
