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Article: Media: New left, new look This week, the New Statesman will receive a colourful, glamorous make- over. But will it make any difference to a title struggling to recapture past glories? DAVID LISTER has a preview - and takes a look at the week's other big launch
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 23, 2002
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As one leftish organ falls out of love with colour, so another
discovers its garish joys. The Daily Mirror may have removed red from
its masthead, but readers of the New Statesman this Friday are in for
a garish shock. Its editor, Peter Wilby, has overseen a radical
rethink of the weekly magazine's look, putting colour on every spread
and giving the political journal a cleaner and more cogent design. It
will be preceded by some eye-catching, if hardly political, posters.
Glam pictures of Bianca Jagger, Mariella Frostrup and Ann
Widdecombe (all right, glam-ish) will have underneath them the words,
"Expect The Unexpected." There are whispers that Frostrup was a late
choice for the line-up, ...
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Article: Wilby persists in antiwar crusade; Londoner's Diary.
The Evening Standard (London, England);
September 21, 2001 ;
472 words
...THE AFTERSHOCKS from New Statesman editor Peter Wilby's strident anti-US leader ... publication. I am told that not only was Wilby's proprietor, Geoffrey Robinson ... interfere in editorial matters," Wilby tells me when I call. "There ...
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