Paul Dacre keeps an eye on magazine staff

Over at the Daily Mail, editor-in-chief Paul Dacre has apparently decided that two sections – Weekend magazines and Moneymail – have rather gone off the boil. His solution? To move both teams into the Mail's newsroom so they are within his eyeshot, thus discouraging hacks from leaving the office earlier that they otherwise might. It is worth emphasising that no one at the Mail is permitted an easy life, however, and Weekend writers are said to be peeved they can no longer leave on a Friday afternoon, despite slaving away all week, for fear of being spotted heading for the exits. The reorganisation has also cluttered the newsroom floor, which now resembles Calcutta station, according to one insider. Envious glances are being cast in the direction of the Mail's new tenants, the Independent, which has apparently been allocated a reasonable amount of space – and has far fewer staff to fill it.