Former Mirror man Paul Field has died suddenly aged just 48. Paul started on his local paper at 15 and, after an Italian and French degree at Hull, joined the Mirror as a trainee, launching a meteoric career.
At 26, after a stint as a Daily Mail reporter, he became deputy news editor of our sister paper the Sunday People. In 1999, aged just 27, he became Sunday Mirror news editor.
The next year he took the same role at the Mail on Sunday. In 2004 he relaunched the National Enquirer, working in New York as its editor in chief.
He moved to Ireland as editor in chief of the Irish Daily Mail and Irish Mail on Sunday before returning to London. He was appointed associate editor at the Mail, in particular handling features content.
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