Telegraph Media Group has hired Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World who was imprisoned for charges relating to the phone-hacking scandal, as a PR adviser to improve the publisher’s reputation.
Journalists working at the publisher are said to be angered by the decision from the group’s chief executive Murdoch MacLennan to hire such a controversial figure.
It is understood Coulson’s main brief is to promote the Daily and Sunday Telegraph as truthful and authoritative papers, something a journalist working at the publisher has called “wholly inappropriate” given his background, the Guardian reports.
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Source: The Drum
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