8‘Editors in pledge on privacy’, Daily Mail, 18 September 1997.
9‘Press shows way in self regulation’, Daily Mail, 7 May 1998.
10‘Triumph of the middle classes: The Daily Mail ’s proprietor shares his thoughts on the election with Philip Stephens’, Financial Times, 28 April 1997.
11Lynn Barber, ‘A Lord unto himself’, Observer, 29 June 1997.
12Author interview with Tony Burton, 15 November 2014.
13Author interview with Cyril ‘Chris’ Rees, 17 November 2014.
14Author interview with the Dowager Lady Rothermere, 17 July 2014.
15Author interview with Cyril ‘Chris’ Rees, 17 November 2014.
16Author interview with Tony Burton, 15 November 2014.
17Geoffrey Levy, ‘The Making of a Newspaper Legend’, Daily Mail, 11 June 1998.
18Evidence: 1. Civil registration index (births): David English, born Bef. June 1930, Woodstock, Oxfordshire (mother’s maiden name: Brazenor). 2. Civil registration index (deaths): Sir David English, died in 1998, DOB: 26 May 1930. 3. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography – DOB: 26 May 1930 in Combe, near Woodstock. 4. Alaska, passenger manifest (possibly in English’s handwriting), 16 December 1962 – DOB: 26 May 1930. 5. Passenger manifest from Hamilton, Bermuda, 27 October 1961: 5/26/30 (again, probably in English’s handwriting).
19Who Was Who 1996–2000, British Library, London.
20Audit Bureau of Circulations figures (for January each year): Daily Mail: 1997=2,344,183, 1992=1,675,453. Daily Mirror: 1997=2,442,078, 1992=2,900,000. Daily Express: 1997=1,241,336, 1992=1,524,786.
21Lynn Barber, ‘A Lord unto himself’, Observer, 29 June 1997.
22Author interview with Richard Addis, 6 October 2014. And Christopher Silvester, ‘Young Turks in command’, Guardian, 27 November 1995.
23Graham Turner, ‘Bah to humbug and hypocrisy’, Daily Telegraph, 5 August 1998, and Peter Preston, ‘Elusive, enigmatic and almost extinct. Long live Lord R’, Observer, 16 August 1998.
24Preston, ‘Elusive, enigmatic and almost extinct. Long live Lord R’, Observer,16 August 1998.
25ibid.
26Geoffrey Levy, ‘A giant with a love of mischief’, Daily Mail, 3 September 1988.
27Author interview with the Dowager Lady Rothermere, 17 July 2014.
28ibid.
29ibid.
Chapter 15
1Bill Hagerty, ‘Paul Dacre: the zeal thing’, British Journalism Review, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2002.
2Author interview with ‘Elsa’, former Daily Mail writer, 24 March 2014.
3Lynn Barber, ‘A Lord unto himself’, Observer, 29 June 1997.
4Alison Boshoff, ‘Young heir who was groomed to be press baron’, Daily Telegraph, 3 September 1998.
5I used the form commonly used these days by genealogists when constructing family trees to try to maintain a clearer connection between siblings of a previous era than when following the usual ‘great-great’ form.
6‘He preaches about single parents, so why does his own illegitimate son have to live with his mother on the other side of the world?’, Express, 22 February 2001.
7Geoffrey Levy, ‘From Asian Babes to Crusader . . . the rise of the “People’s Pornographer”’, Daily Mail, 23 November 2000.
8‘Dacre speaks out on Murdoch and Desmond’, Press Gazette, 25 October 2006.
9Bill Hagerty, ‘Paul Dacre: the zeal thing’, British Journalism Review, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2002.
10Viscount Rothermere, Jonathan Harmsworth, Leveson Inquiry, 10 May 2012.
11ibid.
12‘Hilarity at Leveson Inquiry as Counsel refers to Richard Desmond as Paul Dacre’, Leveson Inquiry on YouTube, 12 January 2012.
13Richard Brooks, The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business, Oneworld Publications, 2013.
14Author interview with ‘Terry’, former senior Mailman, 6 October 2014.
15‘Kensington High Street Winter Sale’, display ad, Daily Mail, 24 December 1966.
16Author interview with ‘Mo’, former Daily Mail executive, 5 November 2013.
17ibid.
18Author interview with ‘Sean’, former senior Daily Mail executive, 24 November 2016.
19Author interview with ‘Mo’, former Daily Mail executive, 5 November 2013.
20Author interview with ‘Robin’, former Daily Mail showbiz writer, 9 December 2013.
21Author interview with Bryan Cooney, former head of sport at the Daily Mail, 11 December 2013.
22Author interview with ‘George’, former Daily Mail staffer, 28 October 2013.
23Author interview with ‘Sean’, former senior Daily Mail executive, 24 November 2016
24David Hughes, ‘He’s Back’, Daily Mail, 8 June 2001.
25Author interview with ‘Cyn’, former senior Daily Mail reporter, 30 November 2013.
26‘Apocalypse’, Daily Mail, 12 September 2001.
27‘A date which will live in infamy’, Daily Mail, 12 September 2001.
28‘‘‘This is our battle too,” pledges Blair’, Daily Mail, 12 September 2001.
29‘Ten years of success at the Mail’, Daily Mail, 29 October 2002.
30Author interview with ‘Sean’, former senior Daily Mail executive, 24 November 2016.
31Bill Hagerty, ‘Paul Dacre: the zeal thing’, British Journalism Review, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2002.
32‘Stumbling along the road to war’, Daily Mail, 3 March 2003.
33‘Yes You Did Give Him A Bloody Nose’, Daily Mail, 6 May 2005.
34David Hughes, ‘How Long Can He Go On?’, Daily Mail, 7 May 2005.
35Author interview with ‘Mike’, senior Daily Mail executive, 5 December 2014.
36Author interview with Jane Kelly, 9 December 2013.
37Author interview with David Eliades, 13 November 2014.
38Author interview with ‘Mo’, 5 November 2013.
39Author interview with ‘Gavin’, former senior Daily Mail executive, 7 October 2014.
40Dacre, ‘The Debt We Journalists Owe Sir David’, Daily Mail, 11 June 1998.
41Author interview with ‘Robin’, 9 December 2013.
42Author interview with ‘Penny’, former reporter, 23 March 2015.
43Author interview with ‘Sean’, former senior Daily Mail executive, 24 November 2016.
44Author interview with ‘Robin’, 9 December 2013.
45Author interview with ‘Cyn’, 30 November 2013.
46Author interview with ‘Ray’, former Daily Mail writer, 8 December 2014.
47Author interview with ‘Sean’, former senior Daily Mail executive, 24 November 2016
48Author interview with ‘Ray’, 8 December 2014.
49Author interview with ‘Penny’, 23 March 2015.
50Author interview with ‘Elsa’, former Daily Mail writer, 24 March 2014.
51ibid.
52Author interview with ‘Penny’, 23 March 2015.
53Vanessa Lloyd Platt, ‘DIVORCE: Why we women are to blame . . .’, Daily Mail, 9 February 2000.
54Author interview with ‘Elsa’, 9 March 2016.
55Author interview with ‘Jo’, former Daily Mail writer, 22 March 2015.
56Alison Boshoff, ‘Life with the Oasis stars: Cocaine binges, all-night parties, porn and infidelity’, Daily Mail, 6 January 2000.
57Richard Pendlebury and Alison Boshoff, ‘The egos, drugs and drink that killed Patsy’s marriage’, Daily Mail, 26 May 2000.
58Alison Boshoff, ‘Maneater Patsy meets her match’, Daily Mail, 28 September 2001.
59Alison Boshoff, ‘From Man-Eater to Matron . . .’ Daily Mail, 17 December 2002.
60Author interview with ‘Jo’, 22 March 2015.
61Author interview with ‘Elsa’, 24 March 2014.
62‘What IS wrong with Posh?’, Daily Mail, 2 December 1999.
63Quentin Letts, ‘The Man’s View’, Daily Mail, 2 December 1999.
64Amanda Platell, ‘Why We Women Hate Posh’, Daily Mail, 8 April 2004.
65Lynda Lee-Potter, ‘No, I for one don’t hate Posh’, Daily Mail, 14 April 2004.
66Lynn Barber, ‘A Lord unto himself’, Observer, 29 June 1997.
67Boris Johnson, Room 101, BBC TV, 10 November 2003. https://youtu.be/x8WF0ey27Y0.
68Author interview with Shirley Conran, 21 November 2014.
69Lynda Lee-Potter, ‘My Darling Caron’, Daily Mail, 15 May 2004.
Chapter 16
1Ferris, The House of Northcliffe.
2ibid.
3Author interview with ‘Sean’, former senior Daily Mail executive, 24 November 2016.
4Media Diary, Guardian, 26 July 1999.
5Dugald Baird, ‘Mail Online’s 10th birthday: from the sidelines to the sidebar’, Guardian, 15 May 2014.
6Author interview with Vyvyan Harmsworth, senior member of the Harmsworth clan (he is descended from Vyvyan Harmsworth, brother of Alfred and Harold Harmsworth, the founders of the Daily Mail ) and former Head of Corporate Affairs at Daily Mail and General Trust, 2 December 2016.
7Paul Dacre, Society of Editors speech in full, Press Gazette, 9 November 2008.
8Evidence: Birth certificate, 26 August 1964, and several other checks by Murbach Research.
9 ‘The not so bacchanalian Bacus (1972–1992)’, nonesuch, Winter 2008, centenary issue 1.
10Author interview with Clive Limpkin, former Daily Mail photographer, 2 July 2015.
11Author interview with ‘Gary’, Daily Mirror reporter, 15 July 2015.
12Lauren Collins, ‘The Wayward Press: Mail Supremacy – The newspaper that rules Britain’, New Yorker, 2 April 2012.
13Author interview with Susan Douglas, 26 March 2014.
14Rob Brown, ‘Horror! Mail man let loose’, Independent, 16 June 1997; and Stuart Millar, ‘At 33, with successful editorships of the Scottish Daily Mail, the Scotsman and now the Record under his belt, Martin Clarke has attracted more praise, criticism, loyalty and disgust than most’, Guardian, 10 August 1998.
15Author interview with Lesley Riddoch, 18 November 2016.
16Stuart Millar, ‘At 33, with successful editorships. . .’, Guardian, 10 August 1998.
17Jane Thynne, ‘You’ve got to go and shout at the bastards or they won’t respect you’, Independent on Sunday, 3 September 2006.
18Author interview with Susan Douglas, 26 March 2014.
19Jane Thynne, ‘You’ve got to go and shout at the bastards or they won’t respect you’, Independent on Sunday, 3 September 2006.
20Background checks by Murbach Research.
21Stuart Millar, ‘At 33, with successful editorships . . .’, Guardian, 10 August 1998.
22Roy Greenslade, ‘Off the Record’, Guardian, 4 September 2000.
23Jane Thynne, ‘You’ve got to go and shout at the bastards or they won’t respect you’, Independent on Sunday, 3 September 2006.
24‘Gorkana meets . . . MailOnline’s Martin Clarke’, Gorkana website, 20 March 2015.
25‘A New British Invasion? MailOnline’s Staggering Growth’, ad:tech conference, New York, 7–8 November 2012. http://library.fora.tv/2012/11/08/A_New_British_Invasion_MailOnlines_Staggering_Growth#GdomXSDVgC7MiZ8m.99
26‘In a video hangout with Mail Online’s Martin Clarke, Mi9 CEO Mark Britt and Mumbrella editor Alex Hayes talking about the new joint venture between the companies, Clarke declared the Mail Online would have little trouble fitting in with Australian journalistic culture.’ Streamed live on 27 November 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzuMVYDNCh8
27ibid.
28ad:tech conference, 7–8 November 2012.
29Author interview with ‘Marlon’, former MailOnline journalist, 26 March 2014.
30Roy Greenslade, ‘Off the Record’, Guardian, 4 September 2000.
31Gina Lovett, ‘Daily Mail looks to make it big in the US’, New Media Age, 8 July 2010.
32‘DMGT chairman Lord Rothermere talks to Rufus Olins’, Newsworks’ Shift 2013 conference on 16 April 2013. Published 23 April 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp_3DrlxUPs.
33Henry Mance, ‘MailOnline and the next page for the “sidebar of shame”’, Financial Times, 24 September 2014.
34‘Paul Dacre’s (Society of Editors) speech in full’, MailOnline, 10 November 2008.
35Mumbrella video hangout, 27 November 2013.
36‘Mail Online overtakes NY Times as top online newspaper’, BBC News, 26 January 2012. Spokesperson Eileen Murphy: ‘In any case, a quick review of our site versus the Daily Mail should indicate quite clearly that they are not in our competitive set.’
37Mark Sweney, ‘The Guardian overtakes New York Times in comScore traffic figures’, Guardian, 21 October 2014.
38Mumbrella video hangout, 27 November 2013.
39‘Paul Dacre’s (Society of Editors) speech in full’, MailOnline, 10 November 2008.
40MediaPost conference, 20 February 2013.
41ad:tech conference, 7–8 November 2012.
42Meagan Hatcher-Mays, ‘I Read the Daily Mail Every Single Day Because I’m a Monster’, Jezebel, 14 June 2013. http://jezebel.com/i-read-the-daily-mail-every-single-day-because-im-a-mo-513278977.
43Lauren Collins, ‘The Wayward Press: Mail Supremacy – The newspaper that rules Britain’, New Yorker, 2 April 2012.
44‘DMGT chairman Lord Rothermere talks to Rufus Olins’, Newsworks’ Shift 2013 conference on 16 April 2013.
45Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke, ‘British Invasion: How “Journalism Crack” Conquered the Internet: Mail Online publisher Martin Clarke wants to get even bigger’, New York Observer, 19 March 2014.
46Henry Mance, ‘MailOnline and the next page for the “sidebar of shame”’, Financial Times, 24 September 2014.
47‘Exclusive: George Clooney rejects “Mail” apology’, George Clooney, Special for USA Today, 11 July 2014.
48‘Exclusive: Clooney responds to “Daily Mail” report’, George Clooney, Special for USA Today, 9 July 2014.
49ibid.
50Henry Mance, ‘MailOnline and the next page for the “sidebar of shame”’, Financial Times, 24 September 2014.
51Lisa O’Carroll, ‘The Thoughts of Chairman Murdoch’, Guardian, 26 April 2012.
52Court documents filed to the New York County Clerk 09/03/2015. NYSCEF DOC. NO.2 Supreme Court of the State of New York.
53Eriq Gardner, ‘Gawker Agrees to Supplement Story About DailyMail. com in Settlement With Mail Online’, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 November 2016. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/gawker-agrees-alter-story-dailymailcom-settlement-mail-online-951352.
54Roy Greenslade, ‘Mail Online rips off freelance journalist . . . yet again’, Guardian, 28 April 2016. http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/apr/28/mail-online-rips-off-freelance-journalist-yet-again.
55Author interview with Michael Brennan, 15 January 2014.
56James Robinson, ‘MailOnline: what is the secret of its success?’, Guardian, 15 November 2010.
57Stephen Lepitak, ‘MailOnline publisher Martin Clarke talks international expansion, paywalls, Snapchat, Facebook & programmatic advertising’, Drum, 4 July 2016.
58ad:tech conference, 7–8 November 2012.
59Peter Walker, ‘George Clooney row with Daily Mail boils over as actor shuns apology’, Guardian, 11 July 2014.
60Lukas I. Alpert, ‘MailOnline Wins Readers, Will Target Profit’, Wall Street Journal, 20 November 2014.
61Author interview with Susan Douglas, 26 March 2014.
62‘Pregnant Kim Kardashian shows off her ample curves in transparent black dress as she arrives at MailOnline yacht party during the Cannes Lions festival’, by Lucy Mapstone for MailOnline, 24 June 2015.
63Lucy Mapstone LinkedIn profile.
64‘DailyMail.com unveils plans for new daily US television series with number one daytime talk show host Dr. Phil Mc-Graw’, by Carol Driver for MailOnline, 25 June 2015.
65Jasper Jackson, ‘Newspaper websites break traffic records with Brexit coverage’, Guardian, 21 July 2016.
66Dominic Ponsfo
rd, ‘BBC says audience for international services has grown to 348 million per week’, Press Gazette, 29 April 2016. http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/bbc-says-audience-international-services-has-grown-348m-week.
67William Turvill, ‘Website ABCs: Mail Online attracts new record 14.8m unique daily browsers and 238m over month’, Press Gazette, 18 February 2016.
68Mance, ‘MailOnline and the next page for the “sidebar of shame”’, Financial Times, 24 September 2014.
69Mumbrella video hangout, 27 November 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzuMVYDNCh8.
70Lauren Collins, ‘The Wayward Press: Mail Supremacy – The newspaper that rules Britain’, New Yorker, 2 April 2012.
Chapter 17
1Paul Dacre, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 25 January 2004.
2Author interview with ‘Marc’, former senior Daily Mail reporter and desk editor, 26 October 2013.
3Author interview with former Daily Mail executive ‘Mo’, 5 November 2013.
4Author interview with ‘Ian’, former Daily Mail executive, 25 November 2013.
5Author interview with ‘Cyn’, 30 November 2013.
6‘Snapshot of Britain on Blair’s last day’, Daily Mail, Comment, 27 June 2007.
7‘Bye, Tony. Missing you already’, Daily Mail, 28 June 2007.
8Bill Hagerty, ‘Paul Dacre: the zeal thing’, British Journalism Review, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2002.
9Ginny Dougary, ‘“I was being tripped up by Gordon and his people. That wasn’t fair” – Peter Mandelson’s explosive memoirs are the most eagerly anticipated publishing event of the year’, The Times, 10 July 2010.
10Author interview with ‘Penny’, 23 March 2015.
11Author interview with ‘Jo’, 22 March 2015.
12Author interview with ‘Penny’, 23 March 2015.
13Jan Moir, ‘A strange, lonely and troubling death . . .’, Daily Mail, 16 October 2009.
14Jack Bremer, ‘Mail columnist throws a shadow over Gately funeral’, The Week, 19 October 2009.
15Charlie Brooker, ‘Why there was nothing “human” about Jan Moir’s column on the death of Stephen Gately’, Guardian, 16 October 2009.
16Paul Dacre at the Leveson Inquiry, 6 February 2012.
17Lunch with insider, 12 January 2015.
18Author interview with ‘Elsa’, 24 March 2014.
19Author interview with ‘Jo’, 22 March 2015.
20ibid.
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