Richard Wallace (born 1960 or 1961) was the editor of British newspaper the Daily Mirror until May 2012.
Wallace began his Fleet Street career working for the Daily Mail and The Sun. In 1990 he joined the Daily Mirror. During Piers Morgan's editorship of the paper he became show business editor before becoming head of news in 2000. Notable among Wallace's scoops was the news that actor Ross Kemp was leaving the BBC soap opera EastEnders in favour of working for rival channel ITV. He was also responsible for the creation of the gossip columnists The 3AM Girls. In 2002 he swapped jobs with the paper's New York editor, Andy Lines. Ten months later, in 2003, he became deputy editor of the Sunday Mirror. Wallace was appointed editor of the Daily Mirror in 2004 on the dismissal of well-known editor Piers Morgan for publishing false images of British soldiers in Iraq. He was named GQ Editor of the Year in 2006. The Daily Mirror was named Newspaper of The Year at the What the Papers Say Awards in December 2006 and again at the London Press Club awards in May 2007.
In May 2012, Wallace was sacked as editor of the Daily Mirror "with immediate effect".
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