Daily Star
Summary
The Daily Star is a daily tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom. It was first published on 2 November 1978, and was the first new national paper to be launched since the Daily Mirror in 1903. For many years it published Monday to Saturday but on 15 September 2002 it expanded to bring out a Sunday edition, the Daily Star Sunday, which is edited by Gareth Morgan. On 31 October 2009 the paper published its 10,000th issue.The paper was launched from Manchester and initially circulated only in the North and Midlands. It was conceived by the then-owners of Express Newspapers, Trafalgar House, to take on the strength of the Daily Mirror and Sun in the north.
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Coronation Street: David Platt star adds a twist of Lemon | Media Monkey
Coronation Street character David Platt may have (temporarily) outgrown his "evil" past, but the actor who plays him, Jack P Shepherd, has been showing a distinctly devilish streak on the soap recently. The Daily Star reports that Shepherd has been told off by Corrie bosses after sporting a T-shirt with the word "Sha-ting!" – based on a sound effect used by Celebrity Juice's Keith Lemon – on screen.
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After Leveson: statutory underpinning should be robustly rejected
I apologise for the brief interlude in the serialisation of the book After Leveson*. I am delighted to restart it today with an extract from the chapter by media commentator Ray Snoddy. He explains where he feels the Leveson report was right - and where it was so definitely wrong.
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Rihanna: Daily Star's less-than-shattering revelations | Media Monkey
Dramatic scenes on the Daily Star front page, which barks: "Rihanna bottled in street". Alarmed readers are told that the pop starlet was "left bloodied and battered" after a fan "hurled a bottle" at her in the street. Sounds serious. Only, turning to page 7, the Star stealthily discloses that the bottle in question was of the plastic Lucozade variety.
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Daily Star still in the risque business | Media Monkey
With a question mark hanging over the future of the Sun's Page 3, the Daily Star leaves its readers in no doubt about its commitment to semi-naked women. Tuesday's Daily Star front page features a giant picture of a bikini-clad Heidi Montag (fresh from Celebrity Big Brother, obviously) aside the headline: "SPEIDI'S £3M NAKED SEX SHOCK".
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Sun, Mirror and Telegraph make new year gains
Most national dailies see small sales rises after slow December, but circulation of FT, Independent and Daily Star dips.
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Jeff Ford to become head of content at TV3
Former Channel 5 exec, who oversaw return of Big Brother to UK TV, to join RTE's main rival.
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Nicole Scherzinger gets Lewis Hamilton into a different type of track | Media Monkey
It's the duet nobody thought would happen and surely nobody wants. X Factor judge and Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger reckons she has been making sweet, sweet music with partner Lewis Hamilton, reports the Daily Star. Hamilton, who probably excels in the musical range known as "Formula 1 car idling", has been working on a few tracks in his spare time.
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'Bigger, ballsier' Daily Star shows some things don't change | Media Monkey
It's a "new bumper" Daily Star this week, "brighter, bigger and ballsier every day of the week", according to the paper's front page. But it is reassuring to know that some things don't change, not least the paper's penchant for all things (Celebrity) Big Brother, whether it's an X-rated romp or Neil "Razor" Ruddock having his back waxed.
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BBC finance boss seeks libel damages from Daily Star over pay story
The BBC finance director, Zarin Patel, is seeking libel damages of £50,000 from Richard Desmond's Daily Star over a story on the corporation's controversial policy of paying its top stars, including Jeremy Paxman and Chris Moyles, through personal service companies.
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A story is born - papers devote pages to the royal pregnancy
How can newspapers devote so much space to a one-fact story? Today's national titles managed it by carrying page after page of nonsensical, speculative copy about the Duchess of Cambridge (aka Kate Middleton) being pregnant.
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