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Who knew sex and celebs sell papers? The Sun's Larry Lamb worked it out by Peter Preston

When the new Sun editor pushed circulation above the Mirror's in the early 1970s, it was not by dragging the press into the mud but by responding to readers' hopes and interestsHow do you reinvent a newspaper? There's a seminal scene answering just that question in James Graham's fizzing new Almeida comedy Ink (about the 1969 birth of the Murdoch Sun). A harassed editor, Larry Lamb, asks his fledgling staffers to tel…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM on July 16, 2017

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