Desmond MacCarthy joined the paper in 1913 and became literary editor, recruiting Cyril Connolly to the staff in 1928. The title has typically sold around 25,000 copies in recent years, and has struggled to break through the 30,000 circulation barrier. This tradition would continue into the 1960s with Karl Miller as Smith's replacement. While some praise his editing skills, others point out he can be immodest. Pragmatism and moderation are desirable, especially in this age of extremes. Chairman of the weekly title, Geoffrey Robinson, said in a statement . Danson, who played an immortal being and bureaucrat who operates the Good Place, said Schur brought seriousness and intensity to the set, an atmosphere that was unusual for a show that also . Robinson said: "It was always my intention to pass full control of the business to Mike. Not all the others suffered the same fate, but most left office with a sense of disillusion and disappointment and, in some cases, mental turmoil. Disappointment, mental turmoil, the sack oh dear. [40] He was also shortlisted for the European Press Prize editing award in January 2013, when the awards committee said: "Cowley has succeeded in revitalising the New Statesman and re-establishing its position as an influential political and cultural weekly. The New Statesman received huge amounts of publicity last month after Tony Blair's former head of communications, Alastair Campbell, guest edited the title. In his first interview since taking over as editor, Cowley concedes the last six months have been "gruelling", although he has found time to write a book, which he is keen to promote. So often, you come across people like that who cross the line beyond acceptability into hectoring. But, he tells James Robinson, he hopes a broader, lighter touch will steady the magazine, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Jason Cowley, editor of New Statesman. Dods rose 2 pence, or 18 percent, to 13 pence yesterday, the. The foundation was previously chaired by Lord Lebedev, the owner of the Evening Standard. He also noted that the Labour Party had failed to offer an alternative to what he called "associational socialism". "The magazines I've edited have always been admired for the quality of their writing," says Cowley, who was previously editor of the literary periodical Granta and, before that, editor of Observer Sport Monthly. 29 May 2013, 11:23 am. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email [email protected] or phone 020 3353 3857. Following Steve Platt's resignation, Robinson appointed a former editor of The Independent, Ian Hargreaves, on what was at the time an unprecedentedly high salary. New Statesman a British magazine published each week, containing articles about politics, society and the arts, usually written from a left wing point of view. 12 October 2018 3 minute read Mike Danson is the maddening Brit who, in 2007, sold Datamonitor to Informa for 502m, only to buy it back eight years later for just 25m. Born in Wigan, Mike Danson is the owner of the New Statesman magazine, and last year took a stake in the Wigan Warriors Rugby League team. It became strongly anti-fascist and pacifist, opposing British rearmament. Michael Danson Founding Member / Principal Consultant at Synthology Healthcare Solutions Group The largest related party deal was this years acquisition of Research Views for 100m priced at almost 45 x EBITDA and 4 x revenue. Photograph: Sean Smith. Secretive data mogul Mike Danson may soon find it difficult to fly under the radar. RT @enokay69: Kay69 drinking water soon. In February 2008, Audit Bureau Circulation figures showed that circulation had plunged nearly 13% in 2007. Now, he's busy building another billion dollar research and data business, GlobaData Plc. As with all books by. New Statesman co-owner Mike Danson has invested a five-figure sum in the unofficial party blog LabourHome. But that wasnt my aspiration, not least because the Spectator is a magazine of opinion that does not publish essays or more ambitious long reads. The company was sold to Informa for 502m. Cowley is optimistic about the implications of Danson's decision. [1] Traffic to the magazine's website that year reached a new high with 27 million page views and four million distinct users. Did it even have a future? He insists the 20,000 fee GlobalData charges for its core product remains cheap for multinationals, which are hungry for data during uncertain times. Danson, who also owns journalism trade website Press Gazette separately from GlobalData, dismissed the idea that his initial investment was politically driven and points instead to the unlocked value in the New Statesmans heritage. He is a Wigan fan of many long years standing who happens to be well off and wants to support his Club as much as he can. Every editor starts with a belief that he (its always been a he so far) can restore the magazines glory days, wrote Peter Wilby, who was editor from 1998 to 2005. he asks. "I hope and expect Mike to invest," he says, although that will only happen when he has demonstrated that the title can break even. Its contributors have included John Maynard Keynes, Bertrand Russell, Virginia Woolf, Christopher Hitchens, and Paul Johnson. Danson expanded Datamonitor by gulping down smaller business intelligence companies to broaden coverage of different sectors, while increasing global reach to America, Europe and Asia. In 2018, Danson reportedly paid around $32 million for a mansion. He also wants to banish the title's image as "overly serious and pompous" and says he has already done that by introducing a broader range of writers, including Bryan Appleyard and Tom Holland, restoring some levity to a magazine traditionally read by political obsessives. The magazine opposed the Korean War, and an article by J. It sold a phenomenal 75,000 copies by the end of the year and created an international sensation. By Mike Danson Sep 29, 2016 Activity Did you know. It marked the end of a 13-year. It put Danson in a formidable position. Freeman left in 1965 and was followed in the chair by Paul Johnson, then on the left, under whose editorship the Statesman reached its highest ever circulation. In April 2008, Geoffrey Robinson sold a 50% interest in the magazine to businessman Mike Danson, and the remainder a year later. Its longstanding proprietor, the Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson, finally sold his 50% stake to Danson earlier this month, leaving the businessman who made a fortune from selling his research business Datamonitor in 2007 in charge of the magazine at a time of great upheaval. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. This number helped the magazine become a key player in Labour politics. But it is difficult to find the usual investor information on the web site, and who can tell which of the multiple companies operating from his London headquarters belong to the public group and which to the private one? Mike Danson has taken full control of the New Statesman, the leftwing political weekly, buying out the Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson's 50% stake in the title. It is the latest leg of the colourful corporate story of Danson, who is described as disarmingly normal with a knack for buying unloved assets and unlocking their potential. I was delighted when he agreed to become our lead book reviewer, and over the past decade Johns review-essays and longer pieces exploring the history of ideas and the crisis of liberalism have contributed hugely to the redefinition of our political and cultural coverage, as we attempt not only to understand but to analyse and explain the forces driving this period of extraordinary upheaval and technological disruption. Mike Danson founded Datamonitor Plc, an online information company, in 1990. Part of the challenge, however, will be ensuring the quality of analysis and research products remains strong as the company continues to scale. In October 2014, the magazine was guest-edited by the artist Grayson Perry, whose essay titled "Default Man" was widely discussed. Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. In MacIntosh R, O'Gorman KD, editors, Research Methods for Business and . Contributors to the issue included the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and Michael Sandel. While the long-term future of the news magazine might have looked patchy at the time of Dansons investment, Douglas McCabe, of Enders Analysis, says the outlook is now much brighter. UNcivilized Inc. Aug 2022 - Present7 months. The New Statesman's sales slide was all the more painful because it began just as its rightwing rival, the Spectator, began to take flight (the latter's sales have risen from just over 60,000 five years ago to more than 77,000), aided by a substantial marketing budget. "It's a very delicate balance because you want to change and improve the magazine without alienating its loyal constituency of subscribers," he says, but if it loses some of its traditional readers and gains new ones from the wider world outside politics it is difficult to imagine Cowley being too concerned. "Someone said to me: 'Isn't the New Statesman a bit like public transport? And yet, it seemed to me, there were some things that could be done to improve the New Statesman in an era of declining newspaper circulation and revenues. After one conversation, I hired him as a graduate trainee. Sales have fallen from a peak of 30,000 in July 2006 to 23,500 for the last six months of 2008. His early dealings typified a characteristic that has come to define him. The company was floated in 2000, Mr Danson retaining a significant stake. ", While Robinson is a close ally of Gordon Brown, little is known about Danson's politics, although he reportedly donated 100,000 to Labourhome, the website for party activists. A new day dawned for the New Statesman yesterday when control of the influential, but financially weak left-wing weekly magazine, switched to Mike Danson. I didnt apply to be editor and wasnt much interested in being so when I was first asked to meet the businessman and philanthropist Mike Danson (who would soon buy full control of the New Statesman from the Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson) back in 2008. The magazine published a 186-page centenary special in April 2013, the largest single issue in its history. He says weekly and bi-weekly political titles have outperformed not only newspapers, but the wider magazine market as readers increasingly reach for a more considered and partisan take on current affairs that cuts through the breaking news cycle. KATHRYN A. BURNETT, RAY BURNETT AND MIKE DANSON. The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. . [citation needed]. Although he was impressed by the former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock's modernising fervour, he adds: "I never believed in the party enough to become a member. Numirea noului redactor, Jason Cowley, a fost anunat la 16 mai 2008, dar acesta a preluat funcia abia la sfritul lunii . To obtain new insights into community compositions of . I don't read the Mail on Sunday. Getting the balance right, learning from context: this is what we have been trying to do at the New Statesman. Please, Control of the influential, but financially weak left-wing weekly has changed hands after a turbulent 13 years. The former British prime minister Gordon Brown guest-edited the magazine in 2016, a special edition exploring Britain's relationship with Europe ahead of the EU referendum. Now, hes busy building another billion dollar research and data business, GlobaData Plc. Circulation was at its highest in the mid-1960s at 93,000. 1959 Maria Ln Lillian, AL 36549. "[22] The magazine also condemned the Soviet Invasion of Finland.[23]. September 19, 2016, 12:34 PM. John Whittaker Net worth: 1.4bn Ranked: 120 Born in Bury, John Whittaker is chairman of the Peel Group, the property company with most of its interests in the North West. In November 1914, three months after the beginning of the war, the New Statesmen published a lengthy anti-war supplement by Shaw, "Common Sense About The War",[12] a scathing dissection of its causes, which castigated all nations involved but particularly savaged the British. I was fired in the end. The New Statesman is the leading progressive political and cultural magazine in the United Kingdom. "It is an unfortunate fact", Martin wrote to Orwell, "that any hostile criticism of the present Russian regime is liable to be taken as propaganda against socialism". Built by FlatPlan: Apple News for any CMS. Thank you for your support and happy Christmas to all our readers. In 2000, Datamonitor completed its flotation on the London Stock Exchange and was sold to Informa for 502 million in 2007. "[47], In September 2009, the magazine was guest-edited by Labour politician Ken Livingstone, the former mayor of London.[48]. The issue was launched on 19 October 2012 at the Lisson Gallery in London,[57] where speakers including artist Anish Kapoor and lawyer Mark Stephens paid tribute to Ai Weiwei. But, meanwhile, he has just splashed $31.5m on a 12,000 sq ft, six-storey home in Manhattans Upper Eastside, which was formerly owned by Michael Jackson. [18], In 1938 came Martin's refusal to publish George Orwell's celebrated dispatches from Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War because they criticised the communists for suppressing the anarchists and the left-wing Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM). Whereas before, Danson would sell one printed copy of a report for all employees of one company to share, the shift to online allowed him to charge businesses by the number of users that wanted access to the information. Apart from the odd loan between the private and public companies, all these corporate services are a 3m annual bill for GlobalData whose minority investors might just worry about a certain lack of independence. But professing commitment to leftwing values in that rightwing rag lends a somewhat weakened credibility to anything she says. An editor, like a sports coach, must of course have a method, a plan and a style of play, as it were, but he or she also needs luck. Danson personally made almost 200m from the sale of Datamonitor, right at the top of the market. Danson was reported to have walked away with more than 200m after selling shares before and during the deal, while Informa was left nursing a battered balance sheet as the global financial crash took its toll within months of the takeover. Low-key during his time at Datamonitor - he. Sales have fallen from a peak of just over 29,000 in the first six months of 2007. Pre-tax losses grew from 3.4m to 11.4m. Company type: Private Limited Company Company number: 06339167 Company status: Active country of origin: United Kingdom incorporation date: 2007.08.09 last member list: 2015.08.09 This editorship was condemned by Suzanne Moore, a contributor to the magazine for twenty years. Eaton and Robson were the first of a group of writers who would define our expansion in print and online: Laurie Penny, Mehdi Hasan, Jonathan Derbyshire, Rafael Behr, Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush, John Bew, Shiraz Maher. But he will also be reminded for the work he did and still does at Progressive Digital Media. In August, GlobalData announced half-year revenues had grown by nearly a quarter to 111m as subscriptions grew by more than a fifth. A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. We live and die by the investment and the success of our products.. The issue included a previously unpublished poem[49] by Ted Hughes, "Last letter", describing what happened during the three days leading up to the suicide of his first wife, the poet Sylvia Plath. [15] Most famously, Graham Greene won second prize in a challenge to parody his own work. Wigan-born Mr Danson's personal fortune is estimated to be in the region of 1.1bn. M3 - Chapter. The magazine defended the Soviet collectivisation policy, but also said the policy had "proceeded far too quickly and lost the cooperation of farmers". If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication". The weekly has perhaps lived up to its Staggers nickname with the loss of several senior journalists, including its well-regarded political editor, Martin Bright, in recent months, as well as the row over a roundly criticised but circulation-boosting edition guest-edited by Alastair Campbell. And as a reader of American magazines such as the Atlantic, reinvented as a print-digital hybrid, it seemed obvious to me what was needed: take the New Statesman upmarket; make it more politically sceptical and unpredictable; free it from the clutches of the Labour Party; publish longer and better-written pieces; burnish its literary pages; create a dynamic website; and discover and nurture a new generation of political writers. Its first line is: "What happened that night? Jason Cowley is editor-in-chief of the New Statesman. Mike Danson is CEO/Co-Founder at Globaldata PLC. Mr Danson told the Financial . SN - 9781910158500. The nickname is now used as the title of its politics blog.[6]. Danson has now exercised a clause giving him the right to purchase the remainder of the publication, with Robinson's agreement. His priorities, he adds, are "better writing, stronger, scoop-driven reporting [and] authoritative comment". In the words of the American commentator David Brooks, Being a moderate does not mean picking something mushy in the middle but picking out the strong politics at either end, because politics is essentially about balance, getting the balance right. For the economist Paul Collier, there are no permanent solutions. However, the magazine still fascinates the chatterati despite its low circulation, and conjecture has mounted about its future since Danson first acquired a 50% share last April. Danson's projected 30%+ margins might make that "just" 12x the . Historically, the magazine was affectionately referred to as "The Staggers" because of its crises of funding, ownership, and circulation. Reporting on a political civil war will be a much more comfortable position for the Statesman than dealing with its own internecine struggles. As long as it is unable to mount promotional campaigns, a small title such as the Statesman will always be reliant on procuring publicity in the mainstream press, and on that score, at least, Cowley's brief tenure can already be judged a success. Looks like there is still some money left over for 300 million Mike Danson, despite all the cash loaned to the New Statesman interest free and with no repayment date.Sky's Mark Kleinman reports that Danson is in talks for a deal with a potential new sister publication for the Staggers: Boat International, "the world's leading publisher in the super yacht industry". [39] Cowley had been shortlisted as Editor of the Year (consumer magazines) in the 2012 PPA (Professional Publishers Association) Awards.

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