(v insider baseball but find it interesting that the NS is taking this long to replace Cowley, and have heard rumours that they're struggling to find someone - feels pretty symptomatic of a British media landscape that just doesn't offer a pipeline for interesting centre-left journalists to blossom)
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If so, I’m in with a shot.
although if the new editor would like to hire me as their number three (not number two, as we all know the deputy always does all the work), then I would be vvv happy to consider that
Maybe @annettedittert.bsky.social ?
I've no idea if this is still true (I really, really hope it isn't), but a while back a former NS staffer noted to me that no Anoosh Chakelian story had ever been given the cover.
Sorry for the rant (a former subscriber to the NS!)
But it is quite hard to find someone whose both left, willing to take on that job and who will only commission interchangable young men to write
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