Baz Bamigboye leaving the Daily Mail

Nah, just means they'll end up on Deadline instead. 

RETIRE!

Why? He has one of the best jobs in the industry, it isn't a bad job writing several articles a week, especially with his contacts he doesn't really need to hunt down a scoop, the scoops come to him.

It could all be the downsizing in the media in 2010 the Daily Mail circulation was 2.1m, today it's a mere 800k. People aren't buying newspapers, especially the young. The pandemic showed that news is 12 hours old news is well too out of date and people now want news that is current.

I will be sorry to see Baz go, I liked him, he was the one could thing in the Daily Mail. The equivalent in New York was Michael Riedel, the NY Post haven't replaced him.

Mail Online is the most viewed newspaper site in UK, 4 million people daily - it is arguably the most successful in the world and it's very profitable. Although surprisingly it generally has quite separate content to the print version Baz writes for them both. He must have a much better job lined up - maybe at a TV station ?  

Four million people read the Mail?? What a country, eh

Well it seems most commenters on this thread read it (except me) so your sneering is somewhat misplaced.

Daily Mail online is popular and I go on it myself sometimes. I would say more than 4 million read it and also provides valuable data for editors on what people are actually reading, by observing where people click.

However how do you make money from the website? Sometimes I have a banner that appears and disrupts what I want to read, or if I click on a video, it will open up another advertising video again all very annoying and would make me rather not buy the product. The Daily Mail is very popular because it is free, when it goes to subscription it will lose most of its readers.

If newspapers online was to be so profitable why then are most other newspapers you have to pay to read including The Sun? I wanted to read the New York Times’ review of The Music Man today but couldn’t, without taking out a subscription.

On a side note I have no idea of Baz’s politics? But I do know one of the best critics the late Jack Tinkler was a supporter of the Labour Party.

Gone are the days of the powerful newspapers that used their position to bully people.

It depends what you mean by "read it". Most people will follow a link to the site to see what it says. Far fewer will choose it as a news source.

They cover a lot of UK TV & film production so maybe they’re looking at broadening their horizons, particularly considering the big names that do theatre over here. They cover all the Broadway stories.

Yes Deadline is USA focused I think although I have followed it for several years now as it usually has interesting interviews with actors/directors

I think a lot of theatre PR people will be worried about this. As mentioned, the Mail reaches a huge swathe of 'Middle England', the type of people with enough disposable income to buy tickets to a West End show but who largely don't hear about theatre news and announcements by any other means. They might see a story about the casting in Cabaret on Baz's page and think 'Ooh, I'll splash out on some tickets' but might otherwise never know it's even on. Most of the other printed papers no longer do regular theatre reviews or even interviews. Deadline certainly won't reach most of those people either.

Saying that, I know some will be relieved to no longer feel they are 'held at ransom' in terms of giving him exclusives. As discussed there has been unhappiness at the direction the Mail has taken and some uncomfortableness from many theatre companies and producers about placing so much emphasis on articles in that paper. Indeed many have pulled advertising spend with the Mail and Mail Online because of its dubious stories which many see as old fashioned or even straight-up racist or sexist. Baz also had a reputation for throwing a strop when he didn't get his own way or if he wasn't offered a big story first, or it was leaked before he talked about it. I remember some big casting news at the National (I think) was reported here first and he threatened never to post an exclusive on Thursday night again, but he did anyway.

Whatever your thoughts, it is certainly quite a turning point for theatre in the mainstream press.

If I can recall, some West End/London theatre reviews written by Variety or THR rate poorly, very opposite to the ones from leading UK publications. I guess Baz being on Deadline would give a more favorable or sensible review of the shows. I also think it would be fun if he prognosticates on his Olivier predictions (like most trades do during the Oscars)

Now Baz is writing for Deadline, we can take off the table he is retiring, we can also assume he left the DM on his own accord, why we he leave a massive publication that speaks to middle England to some obscure website? In the same way no one has replaced Quentin Letts. It all go to the trend that newspapers are downsizing and do not hack the same money they did 10 years ago so cannot be so lavish.

Know hopefully the DM will downsize Richard Little John completely, who is fond in telling people the perils of working from home, especially the Civil Service, despite working from a nice gated mansion community in West Palm Beach, Florida,

I agree with the comment above that Baz's move away from the Mail will mean that Middle England and the Shires won't get the same exposure to theatre news and theatre in general.

I've read Baz since I was a teenager and whilst I hate the Daily Mail, I will miss his column hugely, especially his breaking of theatre news, if it doesn't appear with the same regularity at Deadline. But I wish him the very best.

You make it sound like Middle England and the Shires are luddites who can't access or use a computer or a phone. I'm sure some of them are but not all of them!

The world of news is changing rapidly and print media has it place and will likely not die anytime soon but I'm not sure if Baz leaving the DM for Deadline means people will stop buying theatre tickets.