• The daily mail is a British daily middle-market newspaper published in London in a tabloid format
• It was founded in 1896
• It is the UK’s highest-circulated daily newspaper
• Day-to-day editorial decisions are made by a team led by the editor Geordie Greig

Geordie Greig

• Greig was appointed editor of the London Evening standard in Feb 2009
• In 2010 appointed Editorial Director of The Independent, The independent on Sunday, The I and the Evening Standard
• In 2012 appointed editor of The Mail on Sunday while remaining a director of The I (Independent Print LTD) and The Evening Standard
• Greig supported the UK remaining in the EU in 2016 as editor of The Mail on Sunday, but then shifted his stance to supporting Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement. He was considered to have steered the Daily Mail in a pro-remain direction

Legal Action

• In April 2007, Hugh Grant sued the Daily Mail after claims about his relationships with his former girlfriends in 3 separate tabloids, these were published in the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday. Grant said he was tired as they were ‘publishing almost entirely fictional