Martin Newland

Martin Newland
Martin Newland
Born	26 October 1961 (age 62); Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Education	Downside School; Royal Military Academy Sandhurst; Goldsmiths, University of London; Heythrop College, University of London
Occupation	Journalist
Employer(s)	Catholic Herald; National Post; The Daily Telegraph; The National
Spouse	Benedicte Smets
Children	4

Martin Newland (born 26 October 1961) is a British

Charles Moore. Newland was appointed Editor upon his return from Canada where he was a launch editor and Deputy Editor of Conrad Black

's new national newspaper The National Post. The launch of the Post started one of the most costly and intense newspaper wars in North America.

Education

Newland was educated at Downside School, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Goldsmiths College at the University of London, where he took a BA in History and Heythrop College (also at the University of London), where he took an MA in Theology.

Life and career

Newland worked to preserve The Daily Telegraph when it was purchased in June 2004 from

Barclay brothers, then owners of The Scotsman newspaper and The Business magazine.^{[citation needed}

]

After the takeover, it was confirmed that Newland would remain as editor under the new owners, despite some reports that he would be replaced by

Sunday Telegraph, and others such as Andrew Neil, publisher of The Scotsman and The Business.^{[citation needed}

]

Newland was opposed to introducing a compact (tabloid) version of The Daily Telegraph but was known to want to introduce some changes to the broadsheet.^{[citation needed]}

Newland resigned as Daily Telegraph editor on 18 November 2005. His temporary replacement was confirmed as

Lord Deedes and Max Hastings.^{[citation needed}

]

In August 2007, Press Gazette reported that Newland was due to launch a new newspaper in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates.^[1]

The National, was launched on 17 April 2008.^[2] It is the UAE's sixth daily English-language newspaper but the only one printed in Abu Dhabi.

Previous career

Newland was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Prior to becoming editor of The Daily Telegraph, he worked at the Catholic Herald from 1986 to 1989; then became a reporter and home editor on The Daily Telegraph (1989–98). He was deputy editor on the National Post, a conservative Canadian daily founded in 1998 by Lord Black of Crossharbour. Under Newland's news direction, the upstart daily found a distinctive voice and quickly came to within striking distance of the venerable, but colourless The Globe and Mail, before mounting losses forced major cutbacks in editorial staffing levels. Before that Newland was home editor, news editor and a reporter for The Daily Telegraph.

A devout Catholic,^[3] he is married to Benedicte, née Smets, the sister of Pascale Smets, who is married to The Telegraph's pocket cartoonist Matt. The couple have four children.

Notes

^ "Ex-Telegraph staff sought for Martin Newland's Arab paper". Press Gazette. Press Gazette. 24 September 2007. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
^ MEED: National moment for newspaper launch
^ James Rob tml "Marathon man keeps Telegraph running", The Observer, 12 March 2006.

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Preceded by Charles Moore	Editor of The Daily Telegraph 2003 - 2005	Succeeded by John Bryant

[1] "Ex-Telegraph staff sought for Martin Newland's Arab paper". Press Gazette. Press Gazette. 24 September 2007. Retrieved 30 January 2020.

[national-2] MEED: National moment for newspaper launch

[media_g_-3] James Rob tml "Marathon man keeps Telegraph running", The Observer, 12 March 2006.

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