Sentences with phrase «former tabloid editor»

The exit of former tabloid editor Andy Coulson marks a significant shift in the modernisers» struggle to rebrand the party

«I was satisfied this was the right thing to have a former tabloid editor to help us with our media and communications.»

Not exact matches

Cameron said his friend Rebekah Brooks, a former editor of the tabloid, should have resigned as chief executive of News International, the British unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp..

Harry Guggenheim, who was a naval aviator in both world wars, is a former Ambassador to Cuba (1929 - 1933) and is married to the former Alicia Patterson, editor and publisher of Long Island's profitable tabloid Newsday (of which he is president).

The prime minister said he had decided to give the former News of the World editor, who had edited the tabloid at the time when royal editor Clive Goodman was jailed for phone - hacking, a «second chance» because he had «done the honourable thing» by resigning.

Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of the News Of The World tabloid, was cleared of the phone - hacking charge in a unanimous verdict by jurors.

Ian Edmondson, who has been suspended from active duties after allegations that he was linked to phone hacking at the News of the World, was one of Andy Coulson's inner circle of executives when David Cameron's director of communications was editor of the paper, according to a former reporter on the tabloid.

Eliot Spitzer and former British tabloid editor Piers Morgan, in its desperate bid to restore lost ratings.

Timothy Langdale QC, the defence lawyer for the former editor of the tabloid Andy Coulson, was cross-examining Evans at the Old Bailey and said: «You seem to be a rather risky hacker at this time.»

Paul McMullan, former News of the World deputy features editor, told the Guardian newspaper this morning that David Cameron's communications chief «would certainly be well aware that the practice was pretty widespread,» and the paper reported that Paul McMullan «claims that phone - hacking and other illegal reporting techniques were rife at the tabloid while... Andy Coulson was deputy editor and then editor of the paper.»