Is the telegraph a tabloid

CONGRATULATIONS to my former colleague Tony Gallagher, who has been appointed editor of the Times. Following stints at the Telegraph and the Sun, this makes him one of a rare or possibly unique breed to have been in charge of three national newspapers.

I met him in 1990, when at the age of 27 he moved from Today to become a reporter on the Daily Mail where I was a sub-editor.

He soon filed a series of exclusive stories about Princess Diana and promotion to news editor was not long in coming.

If news editing under Paul Dacre isn’t the hardest job in journalism, if not the world, then I don’t know what is.

Daily telegraph uk

Tony had to be up with the lark, reading the opposition papers’ final editions, before heading to the office to prepare his strategy for the day. First task was to work out how to deal with the inevitable savage bollocking from Dacre over the stories he had missed.

He once told me over an outra