Why Dacre’s worth his million

Abstract

The former editor of The Sun and current chairman of The Wireless Group writes: I was particularly pleased to learn recently that Paul Dacre, the finest and most successful newspaper editor in this country, earns in excess of a million pounds a year. What was not so pleasing was to discover that his chief executive earns more. This doesn't properly reflect the vital role of the editor. Plenty of businessmen and women can do what the chief executive does. I am not saying that you could take a clerk from the pay-roll department and expect him to run the company. There are plenty of CEOs about. But there is only one person with the skill, the guile and the understanding of his customers that can turn out the Daily Mail each day.