Text and the City: How the Mail pioneered financial journalism
During the autumn of 1999, I took a phone call from an emissary of Paul Dacre, the commanding editor of the Daily Mail. Robin Esser, in the glorious tradition of the newspaper, invited me to join him for a glass of champagne at the Howard Hotel on the Embankment in central London. He told me that Andrew Alexander, who had been the Daily Mail's astringent City Editor, would be retiring from full-time duty in May 2000 and would I be interested in the job? Historic: The Royal Exchange (right) and Bank of England (left) at the turn of the century For the previous decade, I had been the Financi...
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