Daily Mail gets '400 pictures of Pippa Middleton every day'

THE DAILY MAIL receives up to 400 pictures of Pippa Middleton every day from photographers and agencies according to the paper's picture editor, Paul Silva, but refuses to publish them because there "is no reason to photograph her when she is out and about doing her own thing".
 
His comment to the Leveson Inquiry gives an indication of how much scrutiny 'celebrities' like Middleton are under. Earlier in the inquiry actress Sienna Miller told how she had been "relentlessly pursued" by paparazzi who made her life "hell".
 
Silva claimed that the Mail did not treat the Duchess of Cambridge's sister differently to other people in the public eye. He said that the paper would only print pictures of her if she was at an event to which photographers had been invited.
 
However, Journalism.co.uk points out that Silva, who has been with the title for 23 years, is only responsible for the print edition of the paper. Its website, which is known to publish paparazzi shots, has its own picture and editorial staff.
 
Also on Wednesday, Peter Wright, editor of the Mail on Sunday, told Leveson that the paper sometimes paid sources for stories and would offer as much as £50,000 for a major interview or book serialisation. 
 
He said he did not believe that reporters at the paper had ever intercepted voicemails. "I would hope that if phone hacking were going on it would have come to my attention," he said. Wright also said that he expected his staff to reveal their sources to him, even if they were to remain anonymous in the resulting article.
 
He also admitted that since he joined the Mail in the 1970s papers had "changed enormously", with a new emphasis on celebrities. Once, he said, the industrial reporters were the "stars", now most national papers do not even employ one. ·