It’s all change at Mail towers. In shock news on Fleet Street, Geordie Greig, the well-connected editor of the Daily Mail since 2018, is to step down from his current post at the end of this week. Ted Verity, the current editor of the Mail on Sunday, will instead be Editor of Mail newspapers, a position that will include overall responsibility for both the Sunday and daily papers and You magazine. In an email sent out on behalf of the paper’s chairman Lord Rothermere, staff were told that since the Mail’s foundation 125 years ago:
The paper has never shown fear, nor sought favour, in pursuit of its founding ideals to inform, entertain and fight for its readership and the people of this great country. Times change and the Daily Mail has always embraced change and emerged stronger. It is now time for us to make another such change and create a modern digital/print media company fully-equipped to embrace the vast opportunities for the high-quality journalism that this company is dedicated to producing…The secret of the Daily Mail’s success has always been my family’s passion for investing in the brilliant journalism that’s helped our titles forge a unique bond with readers.
Rothermere notes that ‘Ted is a Mail journalist to his core and uniquely placed to oversee the next chapter for our newspapers’ while Greig is lauded as ‘a remarkable editor’ who will now become ‘Consultant Editor.’
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