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Article: Straight out of Left field ; MAGAZINES ++ NEW STATESMAN ++ The challenge facing any editor of the 'New Statesman' is how to stay true to core values while producing a title original enough to command attention. Is it a trick that John Kampfner is pulling off? Andy McSmith meets him
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 20, 2006
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John Kampfner, editor of the New Statesman, is looking pleased
with himself. Sales are up, the magazine is making money and it's
winning awards, the latest of which was to Kampfner himself when he
was named editor of the year in the current affairs magazine
category at the British Society of Magazine Editors awards last
week. It has just signed up a new columnist, the comedian Shazia
Mirza, and it is on the verge of launching itself on the internet.
In the summer, rumours were going around of tension between
Kampfner and the magazine's proprietor, the Labour MP Geoffrey
Robinson - not over its political line, in which Robinson never
intervenes, but over whether the money spent on a ...