Varsity (Cambridge) and a separate editor controls a special edition May Week issue (or, in some years, daily May Week issues) at the end of the academic year. Many of those who wrote for the paper during their student days have since gone on to achieve distinction in later life. Famous ex-editors include the BBC news presenters Jeremy Paxman and David Frost, film director Michael Winner, the television presenter Richard Whiteley, former "Financial Times" editor Andrew Gowers, "Independent" editor Amol Rajan, "i" editor Oliver Duff, novelist Robert Harris, novelist and biographer Graham Lord, historian Jonathan Spence, Factory Records founder Tony Wilson and
The Daily Ittefaq was a mouthpiece for Yahya and Tikka Khan, and severely criticised the freedom fighters. After the newspaper "The Daily Sangram" called Serajuddin Hossain, (also transliterated Seraj Uddin Hossain), executive editor "Daily Ittefaq", the editor was abducted December 10, 1971 and never found. During Bangladesh's war crimes trials in 2012, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, a Jamaat-e-Islami party member, was charged with Hossain's murder. Ownership was returned to Manik Mia’s sons after nationalization on August 24, 1975. Today, Anwar Hossain is the editor. "Ittefaq" features all the standard sections of a modern daily newspaper like political news, sports, education, entertainment and general