Daily Star

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''Daily Star''
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Tabloid

Owner	Richard Desmond
Founded	1978
Headquarters	10 Lower Thames Street, London EC3R 6EN

Website: www.dailystar.co.uk

The Daily Star is a British tabloid newspaper. Its editor is Dawn Neesom. She got the job in December 2003 after the previous editor, Peter Hill, moved to the Daily Express.

The Star was first published on November 2nd 1978, and was the first new national paper to be launched since the Daily Mirror in 1903. For many years it published Monday to Saturday, however in September 2002 it expanded to bring out a Sunday edition, the Daily Star Sunday, which is edited by Gareth Morgan.

The Daily Star is published by Express Newspapers, who also publish the Daily Express and Sunday Express. The group is owned by Richard Desmond's Northern and Shell company. The paper is best known for focussing on stories which largely revolve around celebrities, sport, and news and gossip about popular television programmes, such as soap operas and reality TV shows. The editorial stance of the Star's hard news articles is predominantly right wing, tackling such issues as asylum seekers and anti-social behaviour.

It features a photograph of a topless model on weekdays (a copy of The Sun's Page 3 feature) and has "discovered" some well known models, most notably Rachel Ter Horst in 1993, and Lucy Pinder on a Bournemouth beach in summer 2003. These women are known in the paper as "Starbabes". The paper's glamour photographer is Jeany Savage.

The paper includes columns by Dominik Diamond and Vanessa Feltz, and a Forum page devoted to readers' text messages, which are apparently printed verbatim.