Ted Verity
Ted Verity | |
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Born | Edward Verity 19 August 1965 |
Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
Occupation | Journalist |
Title | Editor of the Daily Mail |
Edward Verity is a British journalist. He is editor of Mail newspapers, with responsibility for the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and You magazine.
Education[]
Verity studied at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He attended alongside the former Labour MP David Miliband, matriculating in 1984.[1]
Career[]
Verity began his journalism career at the Stoke Evening Sentinel, and in 1990 joined Associated Newspapers.[2]
He began as a reporter, going on to run the showbusiness desk at the Daily Mail.[2] He had a stint as the Daily Mail's royal correspondent.[3] He moved to a role at Femail before moving to an executive function at MailOnline.[2]
In 2004 he moved to Ireland to take on a role at the Irish Mail, becoming editor-in-chief, overseeing the launch of the Irish Daily Mail and the conversion of Ireland on Sunday to the Irish Mail on Sunday in 2006.[2]
In 2008 he returned to London to become executive editor at The Mail on Sunday, serving as fourth in command and described as a "Dacre golden boy".[2]
In June 2018, it was announced that Verity would succeed Geordie Greig, who would in turn succeed Paul Dacre as editor of the Daily Mail in November 2018.[4] He edited his first edition of The Mail on Sunday on 9 September 2018, slightly earlier than initially expected.[5]
In November 2020 Verity wrote a letter in The Guardian defending his title's coverage of Marcus Rashford, specifically a story which referred to the player's ownership of buy-to-let properties.[6]
That same month, Private Eye reported that Verity's title had obtained images of Carrie Symonds "garbed in Roman attire with chums at a university ball". Symonds reportedly applied pressure on senior press figures to have the photos withdrawn from publication, but the photographs were only moved from the front page to a less prominent position after a direct intervention to Verity was made by the Prime Minister.[7]
In 2021 the Daily Mail lost in a high court claim made by the Duchess of Sussex alleging misuse of private information in five articles that reported the contents of a letter written by her father, Thomas Markle. It was reported that Verity had taken the side of editor-in-chief Paul Dacre, in contrast to the views of then Daily Mail editor Geordie Greig who had told the paper's proprietor Lord Rothermere to settle the claim.[8] The New European reported at the time that relations between Verity and Greig were "strained",[8] though the Mail is now appealing the case.[9]
On 17 November 2021, Greig was "ousted"[10] as editor and replaced by Verity, who began a new seven-day role as editor of Mail newspapers, with responsibility for the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and You magazine.[11]
References[]
- ^ Verity, Ted (26 September 2010). "TED VERITY: David was 19 when I met him. Even then we used to call him the PM. What a tragedy this is for him". MailOnline. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Brook, Stephen (9 January 2008). "Ted Verity appointed Mail on Sunday executive editor". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ Pompeo, Joe (17 November 2021). "'Daily Mail' Editor's Ouster Blows Up British Media". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ Waterson, Jim (7 June 2018). "New Daily Mail editor to be Geordie Greig". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
- ^ Tobitt, Charlotte (12 September 2018). "Mail on Sunday appoints new political editor as Simon Walters moves to Daily Mail as assistant editor". Press Gazette. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
- ^ Verity, Ted (17 November 2020). "Nothing wrong with our Rashford report". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ "Carrie Favour". Private Eye. 4 November 2021.
- ^ a b Walker, Tim (19 February 2021). "How Meghan and Daily Mail editor Greig dealt a blow to Paul Dacre". The New European. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ Holden, Michael (9 November 2021). "UK tabloid starts appeal against privacy ruling on Duchess Meghan letter". Reuters. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ Sabin, Lamiat (17 November 2021). "Geordie Greig replaced as Daily Mail editor". The Independent. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ Tobitt, Charlotte (17 November 2021). "Daily Mail editor Geordie Greig steps down as Ted Verity takes charge of seven-day operation". Press Gazette. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- Living people
- British male journalists
- Daily Mail journalists
- 1965 births