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The
Daily Star is a daily
British tabloid newspaper. Its editor is
Dawn Neesom. She was promoted to the post in
December 2003 after the previous editor,
Peter Hill, moved to become editor of the
Daily Express. Previously she'd been an executive on the paper in charge of the features department.
The
Daily Star was first published on
November 2 1978, and was the first new national paper to be launched since the
Daily Mirror in
1903. For many years it published Monday to Saturday but on
September 15 2002 it expanded to bring out a Sunday edition, the
Daily Star Sunday, which is edited by
Gareth Morgan.
Daily Star Sunday executive
Michael Booker is the youngest deputy editor on
Fleet Street.
The
Daily Star is published by Express Newspapers, which also publishes the Daily Express and Sunday Express. The group is owned by Richard Desmond's Northern and Shell company. The paper is best known for focussing on stories which largely revolve around celebrities, sport, and news and gossip about popular television programmes, such as soap operas and reality TV shows. The editorial stance of the Star's hard news articles is predominantly
right wing, tackling such issues as
asylum seekers and
anti-social behaviour.
The newspaper features a photograph of a
topless model on weekdays (in a similar vein to
The Sun's
Page 3 feature) and has "discovered" some well known models, most notably
Rachel Ter Horst in 1993, and
Lucy Pinder on a
Bournemouth beach in Summer 2003. Such models as
Cherry Dee and
Michelle Marsh have also appeared on their page 3. These women are known in the paper as "Starbabes". The paper's glamour
photographer is
Jeany Savage. Recently a lot of front pages have been devoted to model
Danielle Lloyd, of
Celebrity Big Brother fame.
The
Star includes columns by
Dominik Diamond and
Vanessa Feltz (which is also printed in the
Daily Express), and a Forum page devoted to readers'
text messages, which are apparently printed verbatim.
Both the
Daily Star and its Sunday equivalent, as well as its stablemates the
Daily Express and
Sunday Express, have featured heavy coverage of the missing toddler
Madeleine McCann. In 2008 the McCann family sued the
Star and
Express for
libel following the newspapers' coverage of the case. The action concerned more than 100 stories across the
Daily Express,
Daily Star and their Sunday equivalents, which accused the McCanns of involvement in their daughter's disappearance. The newspapers' coverage was regarded by the McCanns as grossly defamatory. In a settlement at the
High Court of Justice, the newspapers agreed to run an unprecedented front-page apology to the McCanns on
March 19 2008, publish another apology on the front pages of the Sunday editions on
March 23 and make a statement of apology at the High Court. They also agreed to pay costs and substantial damages, which the McCanns plan to use to aid their search for their daughter. In its apology, the
Daily Star apologised for printing "stories suggesting the couple were responsible for, or may be responsible for, the death of their daughter Madeleine and for covering it up" and stated that "We now recognise that such a suggestion is absolutely untrue and that Kate and Gerry are completely innocent of any involvement in their daughter's disappearance."
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