Editing Daily Mail (section)

===Stephen Lawrence===
The ''Mail'' campaigned vigorously for justice over the [[murder of Stephen Lawrence]] in 1993. On 14 February 1997, the ''Mail'' front page pictured the five men accused of Lawrence's murder with the headline "MURDERERS", stating "if we are wrong, let them sue us".<ref name="Ref_p">May, Margaret; Page, Robert M.; Brunsdon, Edward (2001). ''Understanding social problems: issues in social policy.'' Wiley-Blackwell. p. 272.</ref> This attracted praise from [[Paul Foot (campaigner)|Paul Foot]] and [[Peter Preston]].<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K8reOOY24nEC&pg=PA272|title=Investigative Journalism: Context and Practice|author=Hugo de Burgh|chapter=ch. 16 Journalism with attitude|isbn=978-0-415-44144-5|year=2008|publisher=Routledge|access-date=10 November 2020|archive-date=17 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217075455/https://books.google.com/books?id=K8reOOY24nEC&pg=PA272|url-status=live}}</ref> Some journalists contended the ''Mail'' had belatedly changed its stance on the Lawrence murder, with the newspaper's earlier focus being the alleged opportunistic behaviour of anti-racist groups ("How Race Militants Hijacked a Tragedy", 10 May 1993) and alleged insufficient coverage of the case (20 articles in three years).<ref>{{cite news|author = Leader|title = Trial by the Daily Mail|newspaper = [[The Guardian]]|url = https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1997/feb/15/lawrence.ukcrime1|location = UK|date = 15 February 1997|access-date = 2 February 2012|archive-date = 12 May 2017|archive-url = https://archive.today/20170512081429/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1997/feb/15/lawrence.ukcrime1|url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|author = Street of Shame|title = Second-Class Mail|magazine= [[Private Eye]] 1305|location = UK|date = 12 January 2012}}</ref>

Two men who the ''Mail'' had featured in their "Murderers" headline were found guilty in 2012 of murdering Lawrence. After the verdict, Lawrence's parents and numerous political figures thanked the newspaper for taking the potential financial risk involved with the 1997 headline.<ref>{{cite news|last1=O'Carroll|first1=Lisa|title=Stephen Lawrence's parents thank Daily Mail for 'going out on a limb'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jan/04/stephen-lawrence-parents-daily-mail|access-date=28 September 2017|work=The Guardian|date=4 January 2012|archive-date=29 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929044940/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jan/04/stephen-lawrence-parents-daily-mail|url-status=live}}</ref>