Dunn squashes Coulson job rumours

Martin Dunn, editor-in-chief of the New York Daily News, has squashed rumours that his job was offered to former News of the World editor Andy Coulson. He was responding to a vicious piece in the rival New York Post, itself based on an Independent on Sunday diary item. But Dunn explains that he contacted his old friend Coulson to ask if he would like to become "an editor, not the editor." As we know Coulson chose instead to become David Cameron's spin doctor. (Via Poynter online)