Chairman of Telegraph Media Group, a subsidiary of Press Holdings and responsible for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. He told the Inquiry he believed in “self-regulation”.
Born 1957. Journalist and author and former press secretary to Tony Blair as Leader of the Opposition (1994-97) and as Prime minister (1997-2000). From 2000-2003, he was director of communications for the Labour Party (2000-03). Before 1994, he had been political editor of Today newspaper and the Daily Mirror. Campbell gave detailed testimony on the political media and what he saw as the decline of genuine investigative journalism and the increasing tendency of owners, editors and senior journalists to wish to be political players. Embellishment and pure invention were tolerated and encouraged by some editors and owners, he said.
Proprietor of The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph and a subsidiary of Press Holdings, acquired in July 2004 by David and Frederick Barclay after months of intense bidding and lawsuits from Hollinger Inc., the group controlled by Canadian-born British businessman Conrad Black. See also Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Aidan Barclay, Benedict Brogan, Tony Gallagher.
