The phrase "a former daily" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that was previously a daily occurrence or publication, such as a newspaper or routine.
Example: "After years of being a former daily, the newspaper has shifted to a weekly format."
Alternatives: "a previous daily" or "an ex-daily".
A former Daily Mail man, Gallagher became editor of the Telegraph in 2009, succeeding Will Lewis.
"It's been very much an 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. type of regime," a former Daily News staff member said.
Stephen Grabiner, a former Daily Telegraph managing director now with private equity group Apax, is monitoring developments.
Mr. Krajicek, a former Daily News bureau chief, said the collegial spirit dipped a bit in the 1990s.
But what better way for a former Daily Mail man to attract readers of his old paper than with a Telegraph "lite"?
"Matthew is a disrupter, a provocateur," Edward Amory, a director of Freud Communications and a former Daily Mail commentator and Tory staffer, said with admiration.
Both were members of a loose reporting collective called Pride of the Khmer, run by a swaggering former daily reporter named Chea Lyhieng.
Harry M. Covert is a veteran journalist, former daily and weekly newspaper editor and publisher.
The group's chief executive, Murdoch MacLennan, had been steadily building a paper staffed by former Daily Mail colleagues – a group that includes Tony Gallagher, who became the Telegraph's editor in November, but not Lewis.
A petition calling for former Daily Show host Jon Stewart to moderate one of the 2016 presidential debates has gathered over 175,000 signatures – including one endorsement from Maryland governor and Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley.
Some turned up their noses at unfamiliar food: salad, turkey, and corn, served without rice, a staple of their former daily diet of black beans and rice.
