MURDOCH maclennan

• Job: chief executive, Telegraph Group
• Age: 58
• Industry: publishing
• Staff: 1,000
• MacLennan has said he wants the Telegraph to become "the cutting edge media group in the United Kingdom - fully integrated, efficient and profitable".
• "Our industry has survived because it has never failed to take bold and tough decisions when presented with profound change," said MacLennan.
• We need that courage again to traverse the dynamic changes gripping us - recognising that the 'do nothing' option is the surest way to decline and fall."
• A former executive at the Daily Mail, where he had worked since 1989, MacLennan's departure was a big blow for Daily Mail & General Trust chairman Viscount Rothermere. The two newspaper groups seem to have been poaching each other's staff ever since.
• Since the Barclay brothers put him in charge of their newly acquired newspaper group three years ago, MacLennan has turfed out its old-style "country club" management and instigated its biggest editorial clearout for two decades.