Colin Myler has a tab to settle with Rupert Murdoch
(NEWSER) - It's Rupert Murdoch editor vs. bounced Murdoch man in New York City's tabloid wars. In a decision met with "shock" and "amazement" in the newsroom, according to Capital New York , Publisher Mort Zuckerman has booted editor-in-chief Kevin Convey and hired former News of the World editor Colin Myler to helm the New York Daily News. Myler, 59, will now take over the battle against the New York Post, where he worked as managing editor and executive editor for five years. He left the Post to become the mop-up editor of the News of the World as the newspaper's phone hacking scandal blew up, amid an increasingly strained relationship with the Murdoch family, notes the BBC . Myler was left without a job when Murdoch shuttered the paper. More»
