David Montgomery (newspaper executive)

David Montgomery (6 November 1948, Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish media executive, proprietor and media investor. He has also edited two tabloid newspapers during the course of his career.

Montgomery was born in Bangor in County Down, Northern Ireland, and attended Bangor Grammar School and Queen's University in Belfast, where he studied history and politics and edited the student magazine The Gown.

In 1973 he joined the staff on the Daily Mirror, one of the UK's large-circulation tabloids. He became chief sub-editor in 1978. two years later he moved over to the rival publication, The Sun.

Montgomery was later editor of News of the World from 1985 to 1987. He then became director of News (UK) Limited, a subsidiary of News International owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Between 1987 and 1991, Montgomery was editor of the Today newspaper, by then owned by Murdoch.

Between 1992 and 1999 he served as chief executive of Mirror Group plc—publishers of the Daily Mirror and other national titles and a range of regional titles—following the death of its previous owner Robert Maxwell in 1991. During his tenure as Mirror Group CEO Montgomery oversaw a number of changes, including taking a stake in The Independent and its sister-paper The Independent on Sunday.

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