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Where there's a Will there's a way

Will Lewis
Time to wave goodbye? … Will Lewis pictured with Rupert Murdoch on the day that Rebekah Brooks resigned as chief executive of News International. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA

Will Lewis, News Corporation's fact-finder-in-chief, has been suggested in some quarters as a possible candidate to be the next chief executive of Trinity Mirror. It's an entertaining thought, although News Corp types point out that Lewis very much retains the support of Rupert Murdoch, even if there is open conflict between the company's Management and Standards Commitee on which the former Daily Telegraph editor sits and the Sun newsroom. It would be only natural for Egon Zehnder, headhunters for Trinity Mirror's board, to make an enquiry; the question is whether the pay for running the newspaper plc can compete with whatever the Murdoch organisation is offering.

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