Stephen Glover

For other people named Stephen Glover, see Stephen Glover (disambiguation).

Stephen Glover is a British journalist and columnist for The Independent and the Mail on Sunday.[1]

He co-founded The Independent in 1986 with Andreas Whittam Smith and Matthew Symonds.[1] All three had previously been journalists at The Daily Telegraph who had left the paper towards the end of Lord Hartwell's ownership. Marcus Sieff was the first chairman of Newspaper Publishing and Whittam Smith took control of the paper. In 1990 he became the first editor of The Independent on Sunday.[1] He also wrote a regular column for The Spectator[2] until 2005.[3]

In 2004, Glover proposed a new compact newspaper to be titled The World. He wanted to model the newspaper on the French newspaper Le Monde and shun celebrity-oriented tabloid news.[1] He originally hoped to launch the paper in 2005 or early 2006, but the project never got off the ground. Glover claimed to require only £15 million to launch The World,[2] less than the budget for The Independent 20 years earlier.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Media Top 100 (2004) 95. Stephen Glover". The Guardian. 12 July 2004. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/jul/12/mediatop100200492?INTCMP=SRCH. Retrieved 24 September 2011. 
  2. ^ a b Chris Tryhorn (13 February 2004). "Glover hopes to launch new tabloid". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/feb/13/pressandpublishing.uknews. Retrieved 24 September 2011. 
  3. ^ Ian Burrell (14 February 2005). "Why Stephen Glover quit". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/why-stephen-glover-quit-483271.html. Retrieved 24 September 2011. 
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