Whether it's Geordie Greig's sudden fall from grace, Ted Verity's promotion or Lord Rothermere's designs on DMGT, it appears that the Daily Mail creates as much drama as it reports. For tonight the Times has proudly sent around an email to its staff announcing that the paper has just poached a hat-trick of Daily Mail rising stars: Tom Payne, Eleanor Hayward and Mario Ledwith. The trio are joining as deputy news editor, health reporter and general news reporter respectively. For since the beginning of 2019 around a dozen journalists at the daily and Sunday papers have similarly jumped ship to go to the Times or Sunday Times including Ben Taylor, the long-serving Daily Mail executive editor. With spots now opening up in the famous Mail newsroom, Mr S looks forward to seeing which enterprising scoop-getters are hired to replace the outgoing hacks.

Source: The Times December 22, 2021 20:02 UTC