The New York Daily News has a new editor-in-chief: The last editor of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World in London before it folded amid a phone hacking scandal.
Colin Myler also was executive editor of Murdoch’s New York Post tabloid newspaper.
The 59-year-old native of Liverpool, England, replaces Kevin Convey as editor-in-chief of New York City’s largest circulation daily.
The staff was informed about the appointment in an email sent Wednesday afternoon, said spokeswoman Jennifer Mauer.
“I am immensely proud and honored to be leading one of America’s great newspapers into a new era,” Myler was quoted as saying in the memo.
His appointment is effective Jan. 10.
