Is it too late for Martin Clarke, outgoing editor of the Mail Online, to apply for the job running BBC News ? His departure was noted by BBC Media Editor Amol Rajan in his new regular Media Studies slot on Today, Radio 4.
Martin, along with others at the top of the Mail, has been obsessed with stories about the BBC as much as those featuring Kardashians. From Gravesend Grammar, he worked on the student paper Epigram at Bristol University, joining a local press agency straight from college, before moving to the Mail in 1987. He made his reputation as a picture selector, bringing 20 to 30 new snaps to editorial meetings. That formed the basis of the Sidebar of Shame that drives much of the Mail's Online traffic - and led Esquire to describe him as "Britain's most influential newspaperman of the past quarter century" in 2016.
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