“No One Saw It Coming”: Daily Mail Editor’s Ouster Blows Up British Media

If Dean Baquet were suddenly shoved out as editor of The New York Times, or Jeff Zucker were ousted from his perch at CNN, it would be a 7.0-magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale of American media. That’s the kind of shockwave rippling through Great Britain right now with the news that Geordie Greig will “step down” as editor of the Daily Mail, arguably the most powerful job in U.K. media. Except in Greig’s case it’s more like a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, considering how much influence the Mail wields in British politics. In the words of one U.K. media figure I… Read Full Article