Can this man drag the Telegraphs ancien regime into the 21st century?
Will Lewis, the new editor of the Daily Telegraph, spent last weekend at a wedding in Boston. He flew home on Sunday night, arriving at work at 7:30am on Monday. By that afternoon, when it was confirmed he had been elevated to the editorship, the 37-year-old Londoner was jet-lagged, and a verruca had reduced him to hobbling around the Telegraph’s new offices near Victoria station. If he was elated, he didn’t look it. Lewis is reluctant to discuss his plans for the paper, partly because the move from Canary Wharf to its new state-of-the-art newsroom is at a critical stage. But reports of low morale have proved irksome enough to prompt a response: ‘There is great morale at Victoria. We have a fantastically upbeat newsroom. We recognise they are talented people, they know that, and they have great self-esteem as a result.’ Acting editor John Bryant will stay as editor-in-chief, the job he was originally hired for, acting as a ‘guiding hand’, according to senior Telegraph sources. Bryant’s
