Colin Myler: A life in print

Colin Myler began his career at a news agency in Southport. He began working in Fleet Street aged 22, working as a reporter at the Sun and the Daily Mail. 1985 Myler joins the tabloid Today as a news editor after working in the same role at the Sunday People. 1990 Appointed deputy editor of the Sunday Mirror. 1992 Myler is promoted to become editor of the Sunday tabloid. He courts controversy by publishing shots of Princess Diana working out in a gym. 1994 Made editor of the Daily Mirror. 1995 Myler leaves journalism after Piers Morgan is appointed to replace him as editor of the Mirror. He becomes head of the newly-formed Super League Europe, a marketing organisation for rugby league. 1998 Myler returns to journalism to take the helm at the Sunday Mirror for a second time. 2001 Resigns as editor of the Sunday Mirror in April when an interview the paper ran with the father of a man allegedly beaten up by Leeds United footballers Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate caused their trial to collapse. The paper was subsequently fined £75,000. 2001-06 Myler subsequently leaves Britain to become executive editor of Rupert Murdoch's New York Post. Over the next few years he fights and wins a circulation battle with the New York Daily News. 2007 Returns to London in January after being appointed editor of the News of the World. He takes over from Andy Coulson, who resigned after the paper's former royal editor, Clive Goodman, and the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, were jailed for hacking into voicemails of members of the royal household. 2008 World motorsport boss Max Mosley wins a legal action against the News of the World over claims he took part in a "sick Nazi orgy". The high court rules the paper breached Mosley's privacy, awarding him £60,000 in damages. Myler, along with News of the World legal manager Tom Crone, persuades James Murdoch to authorise a payment of nearly £1m to Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association and a victim of phone hacking. 2009 Myler tells the Commons culture, media and sport select committee that he had taken charge of an internal investigation that had trawled through emails and found hacking was restricted to one "rogue reporter" – Goodman. 2011 In July, Myler proudly and defiantly held aloft the final edition of the News of the World, after publisher News International stunned staff and the industry by announcing its closure. Later that month Myler splits acrimoniously with his former employer over the still disputed question of whether or not he and the News of the World's former head of legal, Tom Crone, told James Murdoch that phone hacking at the paper went beyond a single rogue reporter back in 2008. In a series of statements to parliament, Myler says in his recollection he did sound the alarm. But Murdoch denies this to MPs. 2012 In January, Myler is appointed as editor-in-chief of the New York Daily News, the city's biggest-selling tabloid.