He has been at the newspaper for 26 years.
Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre has announced he is stepping down from the role in November.
He will leave the newspaper just before his 70th birthday the same month.
Dacre has been editor of the Mail since 1992, and been in the role for 26 years, and through the reigns of six different Prime Ministers.
In that time, he has been one of the most influential people in British journalism, with the Mail’s output frequently being controversial and criticised.
“After 28 years as an editor, 26 of them at the Mail, I have decided to step back from the responsibilities of day-to-day editing by my 70th birthday in November in order to take on broader challenges within the company as chairman and editor-in-chief of Associated,” he said in a statement.
“Without the Mail, Gary McKinnon, Shaker Aamer and Marine A would probably be in jail and Afghan British Army translators, whose lives are now at risk, would not have the chance to live here.”
He joined the Daily Express after graduating in 1971, where he remained until the early 1990s, and was then briefly editor of the London Evening Standard before taking the position at the Daily Mail.
Dacre will remain with the company as chairman and editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers, in addition to advising Rothermere on the changing media landscape.
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