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| How Colin Myler has changed the New York Daily News | How Colin Myler has changed the New York Daily News |
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| The New York Daily News now looks like the Daily Mail's younger American cousin, writes Joe Pompeo in a profile-cum-interview with its editor, Colin Myler. | The New York Daily News now looks like the Daily Mail's younger American cousin, writes Joe Pompeo in a profile-cum-interview with its editor, Colin Myler. |
| According to Pompeo, the paper "appears to be a melange of local stories (politics, police, policy etc) bold-faced gossip, sensational US crime coverage and news-of-the-weird." | According to Pompeo, the paper "appears to be a melange of local stories (politics, police, policy etc) bold-faced gossip, sensational US crime coverage and news-of-the-weird." |
| Myler - former editor of the Sunday Mirror, Daily Mirror and News of the World until its post-hacking closure - is unfazed by such a description, happy to extol the virtues of his tabloid. | Myler - former editor of the Sunday Mirror, Daily Mirror and News of the World until its post-hacking closure - is unfazed by such a description, happy to extol the virtues of his tabloid. |
| As he explained: "if you look at our readers and the amount of TV they watch, most of that TV is light. It's the Kim Kardashian phenomenon. Some people will regard this as being irrelevant and inane, but we're doing no more than reflecting lifestyles in terms of what our readers watch on TV." | As he explained: "if you look at our readers and the amount of TV they watch, most of that TV is light. It's the Kim Kardashian phenomenon. Some people will regard this as being irrelevant and inane, but we're doing no more than reflecting lifestyles in terms of what our readers watch on TV." |
| Appointed as editor-in-chief of the News in January 2012, 61-year-old Myler has sought to change the paper, making it more like its traditional rival, the New York Post, where he used to be second in command. | Appointed as editor-in-chief of the News in January 2012, 61-year-old Myler has sought to change the paper, making it more like its traditional rival, the New York Post, where he used to be second in command. |
| One element Myler has imported from Britain, however, is strident campaigning, most notably over the need for gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre last December. | One element Myler has imported from Britain, however, is strident campaigning, most notably over the need for gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre last December. |
| He launched a gun control petition, which attracted 140,000 signatories. And one of his front pages - headlined "Shame on U.S." with pictures of the 20 child victims - was displayed in the Senate by Diane Feinstein during a speech urging stricter gun control. | He launched a gun control petition, which attracted 140,000 signatories. And one of his front pages - headlined "Shame on U.S." with pictures of the 20 child victims - was displayed in the Senate by Diane Feinstein during a speech urging stricter gun control. |
| It's the kind of campaigning approach that is common in Britain, as I told Pompeo who quotes me in the article. | It's the kind of campaigning approach that is common in Britain, as I told Pompeo who quotes me in the article. |
| He also noted that Myler's British predecessor, Martin Dunn (former Today editor and Sun deputy editor), ran campaigns too. | He also noted that Myler's British predecessor, Martin Dunn (former Today editor and Sun deputy editor), ran campaigns too. |
| And he quotes Dunn who explains just how hard it is to be both serious and sexy, especially in New York and with American sensibilities. | And he quotes Dunn who explains just how hard it is to be both serious and sexy, especially in New York and with American sensibilities. |
| Dunn told him: "You have to be aware of so many different constituencies, be they political, be they ethnic, be they based on age. It's an incredibly difficult balancing act." | Dunn told him: "You have to be aware of so many different constituencies, be they political, be they ethnic, be they based on age. It's an incredibly difficult balancing act." |
| As it is in Britain too, of course. Every tabloid editor I can recall has struggled with that essential need for balance. It's an art, not a science. | As it is in Britain too, of course. Every tabloid editor I can recall has struggled with that essential need for balance. It's an art, not a science. |
| Sources: Capital New York/Wikipedia | Sources: Capital New York/Wikipedia |
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