Denis Mann

I joined the Daily Star in 2018 as deputy editor in chief and editor of the Daily Star Sunday, working with editor Jon Clark to transform the papers. In 2025 I was made editor of the Star before leaving in a restructuring to seek new challenges.

My second stint at the Daily Mirror, working from home in France as a sub editor after the arrival of our twin girls before getting the call from Jon Clark to be his deputy at the Star. The family moved back to Britain.

A second spell at the Sun, starting as a sub before quickly being appointed smartphone editor, running a team to produce a 24-hour digital product. During this time, I commuted from our home in France.

Page editor at Presse Media 81, an outsourcing company based in South West France. I subbed, chief subbed and designed live news pages for the Evening Herald in Dublin and for many of the Irish Independent's magazines. I gained experience on remote working and managing teams producing high volumes of copy and pages. And I learned French.

During the summer of 2008, I was one of a two-person team that redesigned The Sunday People from top to bottom, taking the project from initial ideas to relaunch.

I was appointed night editor of the Daily Express, but took over as executive editor two months later. I was No3 on the paper with responsibility for all production. I drew most of the pages, wrote most of the headlines and ran a team of journalists and artists. I edited the paper in the absence of the editor and deputy editor and consulted on the online editions

I oversaw layouts, organised production and consulted on the online edition. I helped the process of moving to new deadlines and reorganised the production desks.

I joined The Sun after doing subbing shifts for the Manchester and Irish editions. I worked my way up to become assistant night editor within a year and ran the Manchester and Irish editions. I spent eight years night-editing the paper and was at the forefront of the internet revolution, becoming The Sun’s first full-time online editor, taking impressions from 10,000 to 1,000,000 within six months. I then rejoined the back bench as executive night editor.

I worked as a reporter on the Chorley Guardian, Lancashire Evening Post, Bolton Evening News, Shetland Times and Kent Evening Post, then as a sub on the Bolton Journal, Citizen Newspapers and Liverpool Daily Post, On the last three newspapers I moved into production and finished on the Post as deputy features editor.