AN Anfield-born journalist, who once said she wanted to be Liverpool Football Club's first female manager, has been made editor of the Sunday edition of The Sun.
Victoria Newton, 43, who was educated in Nottingham and at Cambridge, describes herself as “a native Scouser who was born in Anfield”.
But she was branded a hypocrite today by a member of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign.
Newton began her career on The Daily Express and joined The Sun's showbiz team before becoming Los Angeles Correspondent.
She later edited its Bizarre showbusiness column but the volume of errors and accusations of plagiarism that went through to print under her byline earned regular spots in Private Eye and even a blog dedicated to highlighting them - Vicky Watch.
Newton, pictured above in a Liverpool FC scarf, will report to Sun Editor David Dismore in the role.
Despite The Sun being detested for decades on Merseyside for its role in the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster, Newton told The Independent newspaper in 2005: "I watch as many Liverpool matches as I can," and went on to say her "dream job would be LFC's first female manager".
Sheila Coleman, spokeswoman for the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, told Liverpool Confidential: "This woman's hypocrisy is appalling.
"To openly align herself with Liverpool Football Club after the way The Sun lied about its supporters in such an unforgiveable way calls her entire integrity and her fitness to edit anything into question."
The Sun on Sunday is embarking on an aggressive marketing campaign this weekend and is appointing 16 new editorial staff.
Ms Coleman noted: "Some might see this as another cynical attempt to raise the number of readers on Merseyside, who knows for sure?
Sheila Coleman"But one thing is for certain is it won't wash. The wounds of 1989 are as open and deep as ever on Merseyside, and this sort of thing is just another distraction to the job of getting at the real truth and it won't work."
Of her new role, Newton said: "I am thrilled to be given the opportunity and the resources to take Britain's number one Sunday newspaper to an even better place.
"The Sun has a formidable reputation for exclusive, hard-hitting and investigative journalism and alongside the humour and headlines, showbiz and comment, I look forward to securing The Sun firmly as the home of the best Sunday stories.”
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