Telegraph targets Mail associate editor Stephen Brook, press correspondentMonday October 23, 2006http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,,1929581,00.html.
The Daily Telegraph has launched another poaching raid on the Daily Mail.This time the paper is targeting Daily Mail associate editor Tony Gallagher and is attempting to woo him to boost its news operation.Gallagher, a long-standing Daily Mail staffer who was a New York correspondent for the paper before becoming news editor, was this year placed in charge of DailyMail.co.uk.It is understood that Gallagher has yet to decide whether to leave the Mail. If he moves, he will follow his friend Ian MacGregor, who left his post as deputy editor of the Evening Standard to become Daily Telegraph deputy editor earlier this year.But Gallagher could still knock back the offer and stay at the Mail, just as Mail deputy editor Jon Steafel did last year after rebuffing the Telegraph's overtures.There is speculation that if Gallagher moves to the Daily Telegraph, he would become home editor. That role is currently filled by Richard Preston, who was promoted to that position last September, but is understood to have been offered another senior role.At the same time Michael Smith, a former executive news editor at the Evening Standard, was made Telegraph news editor.MacGregor, Gallagher and Smith all worked on the Daily Mail newsdesk together.Since Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay bought the Telegraph group in June 2004 a string of executives from Associated Newspaper, which owns the Mail and the Evening Standard, have joined the Telegraph, starting with chief executive Murdoch MacLennan.In January the Telegraph hired Liz Hunt to be its assistant editor (features). She had been assistant features editor on the Mail.In November John Bryant arrived from the Mail to be editor in chief, prompting the resignation of the editor Martin Newland.Columnist Simon Heffer is another prominent Daily Mail journalist to join the Telegraph.My Comments : i dont think this is a problem, at the end of the day competition will always motivate organisations and if the Daily mail's staff are considering to move to Daily Telegraph then its obvious which newspaper is doing well. Maybe the Daily mail should give their staff more attention and more money lol. because theres obviously something that the daily telegraph have that they are lacking.