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Article: Media: The new boy at the 'Statesman': is he man enough? Peter Wilby tells Sholto Byrnes that yes, he was pushed from the editor's chair but no, he wouldn't dream of suggesting his replacement had a hand in it. But the conspiracy theorists won't go away
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 15, 2005
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On a trip to the Middle East desert earlier this year a group of
journalists gazed up at the 100ft sand dune they were due to
snowboard down. Only one completed the hard climb to the top and then
executed a perfect descent " John Kampfner.
Two months on and Kampfner, 42, has scaled another summit. Last
week he was appointed to the editorship of the New Statesman,
following such distinguished names of the left as John Freeman,
Richard Crossman and Anthony Howard.
Kampfner's latest triumph was at the expense of another, however.
Peter Wilby, a former editor of The Independent on Sunday, had edited
the Statesman since 1998, maintaining its circulation at 25,000 and
returning the debt- ridden ...