Edward Verity was born on 19 August 1965 and is a British journalist.
11 Facts About Ted Verity
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Ted Verity has been editor of the Daily Mail since 2021.
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Ted Verity was formerly editor of Mail newspapers, with responsibility for the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and You magazine.
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Ted Verity attended alongside the former Labour MP David Miliband, matriculating in 1984.
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Ted Verity began as a reporter, going on to run the showbusiness desk at the Daily Mail.
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Ted Verity had a stint as the Daily Mails royal correspondent.
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Ted Verity moved to a role at Femail before moving to an executive function at MailOnline.
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In June 2018, it was announced that Ted Verity would succeed Geordie Greig, who would in turn succeed Paul Dacre as editor of the Daily Mail in November 2018.
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Ted Verity edited his first edition of The Mail on Sunday on 9 September 2018, slightly earlier than initially expected.
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In November 2020 Ted Verity wrote a letter in The Guardian defending his title's coverage of Marcus Rashford, specifically a story which referred to the player's ownership of buy-to-let properties.
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Symonds reportedly applied pressure on senior press figures to have the photos withdrawn from publication, but the photographs were only moved from the front page to a less prominent position after a direct intervention to Verity was made by the Prime Minister.