Daily Mail is Newspaper of the Year
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Tuesday 18 March 2003
(London - 18 March 2003) The Daily Mail has won the National Newspaper of the Year award for the fifth time.
The award, which the Mail has now won more times than any other title, was accepted by Lord Rothermere, chairman of the Daily Mail and General Trust at the British Press Awards ceremony in London.
He said that the award was "a great privilege," and paid tribute to Editor-in-Chief Paul Dacre, who is recovering from illness, saying: "What a man; what a great journalist. This is the best medicine he could have."
And he added "I think my father said, and he is right, that all the fun in a newspaper is the editor's job, but the truth is you have to let the talent edit the newspaper. The proprietor might own it, but that doesn't make him a good editor.
"I believe in journalism. I believe in financing journalism and I believe in letting Paul and my other editors get on with the job without harassing them or trying to impose my own personal point of view."