Peter Preston: "[David Montgomery] palpably isn’t coming home to have another pop at the Mirror: he’s more than content to conquer territory that the home teams have foolishly shunned."

The FAZ interviews David Montgomery, who says his bad reputation in Germany is down to people Googling him and discovering 15-year-old stories about his restructuring of the Mirror Group. Oh, and he says the Süddeutsche Zeitung would be a good fit for hi

"And here is one key pillar of Mecom’s European strategy: the notion that all journalists have to be able to work across different media. … This idea may be old hat to Brits but it is a big step in Germany, where two of the biggest newspapers … still

"What surprises me most though is that the Monty I knew spent as brief a time he as could actually writing anything. His ambition was to get into the editors chair as fast as possible - and he chose the fastest route. Subbing."

"If established newspapers are to make the transformation to become successful online businesses the quality that good sub-editing ensures will be essential to help them rise above the unregulated clamour of the blogosphere."

Chief executive of European newspaper giant Mecom David Montgomery has said that he sees far less need for the “twilight world” of sub-editing in today’s newspapers.

"Mecom Group Plc holds 86.56 percent of shares in Dutch publisher Koninklijke Wegener NV (and will say by Friday if its takeover offer is unconditional."

"[David Mongomery] is planning to bid for a 62% stake in Sueddeutscher Verlag, the Stuttgart group that publishes Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s largest broadsheet daily, in a deal that would value the newspaper group at more than €1 billion (£695m)

David Montgomery tells Reuters that Mecom "has not looked at improving the terms of its bid for Dutch publisher Wegener".

Kristine Lowe explains how the distributed conversations of the blogosphere work - and how journalists collectively can use them to piece together a story.

"Mecom, the investment vehicle of former Mirror boss David Montgomery, has finally submitted a formal bid for Dutch regional newspaper group Wegener."

"Mecom is looking for further potential acquisitions in Germany’s fragmented newspaper industry as it aims for the number three spot among the country’s newspaper publishers."

David Montgomery’s new MD of Netzeitung has sacked the pioneering online newspaper’s two top editors…

More on the possible changes to Germany’s pioneering online newspaper, Netzeitug, since it was purchased by David Montgomery’s investment vehicle.