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New owners would result in new editor at Standard
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 16 January 2009
If, as predicted by the Guardian, Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev gets a controlling stake in the London Evening Standard, it’s thought current editor Veronica Wadley will be out of a job almost immediately because the media-mogul-in-the-making wants his new acquisition to be “fresher and younger, and possibly more progressive”, and he doesn’t think Wadley is the woman to deliver on that aim.
Names being touted to take on the job include Tatler editor Geordie Greig, Independent MD Simon Kelner, or, if it was felt an appointment from within current owners Associated Newspapers would be better (they’ll still own 24% after the deal), current Mail Online Editorial Director Martin Clarke.
An announcement on the Standard deal is expected imminently, with a decision on a new editor to follow soon after.
