By: (AP) Edward Kosner, editor in chief of the
Daily News, will retire earlier than originally planned, the newspaper said Friday.
Kosner, 66, who has held the post for the past three years, had planned to leave next March but told his staff on Thursday that he will leave "shortly," said Ken Frydman, a spokesman for the
Daily News.
In a memo to the staff, Kosner wrote that the newspaper's Chairman and Co-Publisher Mortimer Zuckerman had "settled on the next phase for the
Daily News, and I will be leaving the paper shortly to clear the decks for the new leadership."
Frydman said Kosner had not specified his departure date, and that his replacement has not been named.
Columnist Pete Hamill and Michael Kramer, a managing editor and columnist, will leave with Kosner, he said. Kramer came to the
Daily News with Kosner.
Published reports this week said the
Daily News will bring on British editor Martin Dunn as editorial director, a position described as above editor in chief. Frydman said Friday that "there has been no official announcement about the arrival of Martin Dunn."
Dunn's role reportedly would be to provide a unifying vision for the paper. The editorial director position has been vacant since Harry Evans left in 1999.
Dunn, a Fleet Street veteran who worked briefly as editor of the
Boston Herald, was editor of the
Daily News from 1993 to 1996.
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