Paul Michael Dacre is an English journalist and the former long-serving editor of the British newspaper the Daily Mail. He is editor-in-chief of DMG Media, which publishes the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, the free daily tabloid Metro, the Mailonline website, and other titles. He is a Director of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc and was a member of the Press Complaints Commission from 1999 to 2008. He left the PCC in order to become chairman of the PCC's editors' code of practice committee from April 2008. His departure from the post was announced in early December 2016.In the British Press Awards, organised by the Society of Editors, Dacre's Daily Mail won the "Newspaper of the Year" category on six occasions, twice as often as any other title.On 1 October 2018, Dacre became chairman and editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers, and stood down as editor of the Daily Mail in the following month. Wikipedia
“Make them laugh, make them cry, or make them angry.”
Dacre's description of the best way to write for readers My Life in [the] Media: Des Kelly, The Independent, 12 December 2005 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/des-kelly-my-life-in-media-519169.html,
Dacre's explanation for choosing The Guardian as his luxury on Desert Island Discs in 2004. [Lewis, Helen, w:Helen Lewis (journalist), https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2018/06/paul-dacre-daily-mail-editor, Paul Dacre’s departure from the Daily Mail will trigger a sea-change in the British media, New Statesman, 13 June 2018, y]
