Courtesy of The Daily Mail and The Mail Online, March 16, 2020

Tributes have been paid to Paul Field, a hugely talented journalist and former Daily Mail executive, who has died suddenly at the age of 48.

Paul worked on his local newspaper as a teenager – writing articles while still at school in Suffolk. He attended the University of Hull and joined the Daily Mirror’s training scheme. He swiftly moved to the Mail as a reporter, and in 1999 – aged just 27 – was appointed news editor of the Sunday Mirror.

The following year he joined The Mail on Sunday where he ran the news operation with distinction for five years. In 2004, he moved to the US where he helped relaunch famous tabloid The National Inquirer as editor-in-chief.

He then relocated to Dublin to work as editor-in-chief of the Irish Daily Mail and Irish Mail on Sunday. He returned to London as associate editor of the Daily Mail, helped launch Mail Online and was an integral part of the team behind Mail Plus – the newspaper group’s digital channel. Paul left Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Daily Mail, to work with tech start-up firms, including bMuse, Amalia, Dugout and Staylists.

In recent times he became passionately involved in a campaign about the expansion of the Sizewell nuclear power station close to his much-loved 17th century Suffolk home.

His campaign was highlighted in a brilliant polemic published in the Daily Mail last year. Paul died last week after a suspected heart attack. He leaves wife Michaela and daughters Olivia, Amelie and Ruby.

Peter Wright, Paul’s former editor at The Mail on Sunday, said: ‘Paul was a brilliant journalist who joined the paper as its youngest-ever news editor. Not only did he have an unerring instinct for news, he built a team of highly talented reporters. He was devoted to his wife Michaela and their daughters, and will be hugely missed.’

Sunday Mirror editor Paul Henderson said: ‘He’ll be remembered as a remarkably gifted journalist and friend.’

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