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Who are the UK political editors?

Who are the UK political editors?

Published by Sam Flores

All of the UK’s biggest political stories, both print and broadcast, have been approved by the outlets’ political editors. They are the minds behind every news story and coverage involving politics, and these names climbed the journalism ladder thanks to their innovative and critical thinking. Political editors are some of the best-known names in the industry, bringing in scoops from their overflowing books as well as typically juggling a team of political correspondents and reporters. These are the country’s main political editors across traditional newspaper outlets and broadcasters, from the BBC to The Sunday Times and GB News to the Daily Mail. Who are the UK national newspaper political editors? The Guardian – Pippa Crerar (2022 – present) Pippa Crerar picks up the Politics Journalism award at the British Journalism Awards 2022. Picture: ASV Photography Ltd for Press Gazette Pippa Crerar, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, attended Newcastle University, obtaining a degree in English. She later took a postgraduate course at City, University of London in newspaper journalism. Crerar began her journalistic career in 1999 when …

Partial win for Mirror as four hacking claims deemed out of time

Partial win for Mirror as four hacking claims deemed out of time

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Paul Sculfor. Distributed by Hamlins Four hacking claims against the publisher of the Mirror have been dismissed as a judge found the claimants could have known they had a case before the six-year time limit was up. However one case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) from a pool of test cases was allowed to continue. Some 57 people are suing MGN, with five cases being used in a preliminary trial to determine whether they should be dismissed as they were brought too late because they came more than six years after the claimants should have known they had a potential case. At the hearing in January, lawyers for MGN said the publisher “accepts the allegations of wrongdoing against it” and “concealed its voicemail interception and other unlawful information gathering at the time that it was taking place”, but said the claims should be dismissed as they could have been brought earlier. The five cases heard were those of publicist Melanie Cantor, PR agent Murray Harkin, model Paul Sculfor, dancer Camilla Sacre-Dallerup and designer Patrick Cox. …

Mirror, Express and Star newspaper circulations no longer public

Mirror, Express and Star newspaper circulations no longer public

Published by Sam Flores

UK newsstand. Picture: Shutterstock Print circulation figures for the Mirror, Express and Star newspapers will no longer be made public. Publisher Reach has decided to keep its national newspaper ABC print sales numbers private. This means they will be available only to ad buyers who agree to keep the data confidential. Reach follows in the Sun and Times publisher News UK, Telegraph Media Group and The Guardian, which have all kept their print figures private for more than four years. The changes at Reach cover the following titles: Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Sunday People, Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star, Daily Star Sunday, and Scottish titles Daily Record and Sunday Mail. Their final published figures were as follows: Reach’s Sunday tabloids, and the Sunday People in particular, had frequently led the biggest year-on-year circulation declines for a long time. These figures come at the end of a downward print trend that has seen the Daily Mirror down 93% since 2000: This means the only national newspapers that will continue to publish their print circulation figures …

More fake and AI generated experts con their way into media

More fake and AI generated experts con their way into media

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Faces of fakery (left to right): perfume writer Esme Gelder (AI generated byline pic and written work), sex expert (uses photo of porn actress with another name), travel expert Jessie Chambers (AI generated pic and articles). New research from Press Gazette has uncovered a fresh tranche of likely fake and AI-generated experts making their way into UK publications. Press Gazette looked at 50 pieces each from five UK newsbrands which quoted “experts”. The titles were selected because they have all come up in previous Press Gazette research as having published fake and likely AI-generated content shared by PRs. Out of a sample of 250 expert-quoting articles published in The Sun, Daily Express, Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Star in 2025 and late 2024, 27 experts do not exist, are impossible to track down/verify online or were not named in the first place. Many more stories (not included in the 27) quoted sources where the expertise was merely questionable, such as a widely-quoted gut health expert dispensing health advice with no apparent medical qualifications, quoted in …

Newspaper cover prices rising fast in 2026

Newspaper cover prices rising fast in 2026

Published by Sam Flores

UK newsstand. Picture: Shutterstock UK national newspaper cover prices have increased by an average of 10.2% compared to January 2024, nearly three times the rate of other consumer prices. Daily newspapers’ weekday editions saw prices rise by an average of 11.2% compared to a year ago, while Saturday editions increased by 8.4% and Sunday editions were up by 11.2% Consumer price inflation was reported as 3.6% in the year to December 2025, with food and non-alcoholic beverages up 4.5% and alcohol and tobacco up 4%. Inflation did not rise above 3.8% throughout the year. Six editions kept their cover prices the same throughout the year, including The Times’ Saturday edition, The Sunday Times, all editions of The Daily Telegraph and The Financial Times. FT Weekend, which remains the most expensive title among UK-wide national papers, increased its price in the past year by 5.9%, after it kept its price level from January 2024 to January 2025. It has overtaken the average cost of a 175ml glass of wine in the UK since last year. (Press …

Mirror accepts hacking but says new claims brought too late

Mirror accepts hacking but says new claims brought too late

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Mirror front page on 28 January 2026 Dozens of hacking claims against the publisher of the Mirror dating back to the 2000s should be allowed to continue as claimants were “triggered” to believe they had grounds to sue years later, the High Court has been told. A group of 57 people are suing Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), with five cases being used in a preliminary trial to determine whether they should be dismissed as they were brought too late. The five cases are those of publicist Melanie Cantor, PR agent Murray Harkin, model Paul Sculfor, dancer Camilla Sacre-Dallerup and designer Patrick Cox. Lawyers for MGN told the preliminary trial on Tuesday that the publisher “accepts the allegations of wrongdoing against it” and “concealed its voicemail interception and other unlawful information gathering at the time that it was taking place”, but the claims should be dismissed as they could have been brought earlier. Barristers for the five argue that the claims were brought in time, as the figures would not have known they had a potential legal claim …

Mirror publisher seeks disclosures to prove hacking claims are out of time

Mirror publisher seeks disclosures to prove hacking claims are out of time

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Daily Mirror front page on 28 November 2023 Mirror publisher Reach is hoping that 61 outstanding privacy claims relating to allegations of illegal newsgathering can be thrown out under the six-year time limit rule. Prince Harry was awarded £140,000 in damages after finding that 15 Mirror group articles about him published in the early 2000s were a result of phone-hacking. But two other claims filed alongside Harry were thrown out on grounds of time limitation. Some 61 further claims relating to allegations of phone-hacking from various claimants remain active and could yet go to trial. Now Reach subsidiary MGN Ltd is seeking disclosure of correspondence involving legal researchers Dan Waddell, Graham Johnson and Evan Harris to prove claimants knew about the allegations complained about more than six years before starting their claims. The trio have worked extensively on litigation against the publishers of the Mirror, Sun and Mail titles. The Mail has successfully forced the disclosure of correspondence between claimants and the legal research team which appear to support the publisher’s assertion that claims are …

Twice national newspaper editor Bill Hagerty dies aged 86

Twice national newspaper editor Bill Hagerty dies aged 86

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Bill Hagerty. Picture: Reach PLC Former Sunday Today and The People editor Bill Hagerty has died aged 86 after a 70-year career spanning showbusiness, theatre and sports coverage. Hagerty was called “a titan of our industry” by The Sun’s editor-in-chief Victoria Newton in the paper’s coverage of his death. Doug Wills, chair of the London Press Club, said: “Such sad news. Bill was a doyen of all things journalistic. Particularly for me in recent years as a former chair of judges of the London Press Club Awards and the Hugh Cudlipp Award. We will miss him greatly.” Hagerty began his career aged 16 with the Waltham­stow Post, fol­lowed by the Reyn­olds News, which in 1962 became the Sunday Cit­izen. He then moved to the Daily Sketch and then the Mirror group, where he worked as assistant editor of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People. As show­busi­ness editor of the Daily Mir­ror, Hagerty interviewed famous names including: John Wayne, Richard Bur­ton, Michael Caine, Roger Moore, Gene Kelly, Neil Dia­mond, Sammy Davis Jr and Joan …

Latest ABC UK newspaper circulations: Updated monthly

Latest ABC UK newspaper circulations: Updated monthly

Published by Sam Flores

Sunday People front page on 11 August 2024 The Sunday People saw its average weekly print circulation decline by 26.4% year on year to 36,594 in November. The paper has seen the biggest year-on-year drop among the UK’s publicly-audited national newspapers for many months this year, but this is the first time in 2025 the paper has decreased by more than a quarter. The next biggest year-on-year drops were all at Sunday titles: Sunday Express (down 22.6% to 90,534), Sunday Mirror (down 22% to 120,702), Sunday Mail (down 21.9% to 34,573). The Daily Express saw the biggest drop in circulation year on year among daily nationals, falling 19.6% to 104,737 average issues. The paper also fared the worst in its year-on-year weekday and Saturday circulation figures in November, decreasing by 20% for its weekday edition (to 96,394) and 19% for its Saturday edition (to 146,294). The Daily Express also recorded the biggest weekday circulation drop year on year in October (down 20% to 97,319 average issues) and in September (down 19% to 99,861). The Daily …