By Foster Kamer 3/30/12 1:23pm

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Former NY Daily News Martin Dunn Slams Tabled Madam Story as an ‘Embarrassment’

Martin Dunn was the editor of the New York Daily News for about ten nonconsecutive years: Once in the early 90s, and again from 2003 to 2010. Now in his old stead is Colin Myler, the former News of the World editor thrown under the bus by the Murdoch family. Myler’s rise to the position was ostensibly going to reignite the longstanding rivalry between the New York Daily News and the Murdoch-owned New York Post. We learned that wasn’t the case after the revelation that Myler held onto a story about the ‘Soccer Mom Madam’ Anna Gristina, bragging about her “close, close friendship” with the editor of the New York Post, Col Allan.

Col Allan happens to be the former boss of current New York Daily News editor Colin Myler. Martin Dunn has some thoughts about this. Read More

By Zeke Turner 7/21/10 1:15am

Dunn Done at Daily News

“There’s a new editor?” said one Daily News staffer in shock on the phone from the paper’s newsroom on Tuesday afternoon.

Ten minutes earlier, an announcement went out to media writers around town that the Daily News had appointed Boston Herald editor Kevin Convey as its new editor in chief.

Three hours earlier, following the Read More

By Michael Calderone 9/05/07 1:17am

Rocking Deck at Daily News

Martin Dunn, the editor-in-chief of the New York Daily News, says he’s baffled that even though the newspaper business is in turmoil, his colleagues are willing to accept the status quo.

Journalists believe they are the “greatest advocates of change,” he said by phone on September 3, but at “the moment there is a Read More

By Sridhar Pappu 12:00am

Zuckerman Gets Old Tabloid Guy to Run the News

Martin Dunn, who headed the Daily News as editor in chief following one of the most turbulent periods in the paper’s history, will return to the News in a newly created high-level position, sources familiar with the matter said.

Beginning whatpromises to be a dramatic makeover of the paper, Mr. Dunn will return to the Read More