A change of hats - and locations - at Associated Newspapers. Three senior executives are being reshuffled with Ted Verity, currently the no. 4 at the Daily Mail, becoming deputy editor of the Mail on Sunday.
Verity replaces Eric Bailey, who is going off to Dublin to be editor-in-chief of the Mail and MoS Irish editions.
And Paul Field, who has been running the Irish operation since 2008 in succession to Verity, will now slot into Verity's slot as joint associate editor at the Mail. (The other "joint" is Paul Carter).
So is there a winner and two losers? No, says a Mail Kremlinologist. Verity will certainly be pleased to become Peter Wright's deputy when everyone changes chairs in September, but it would be wrong to see either Field or Bailey as losers.
