Prospect (magazine)
Prospect (magazine) was launched by its former editor David Goodhart in October 1995. In June 2010 he became 'editor-at-large' and Bronwen Maddox from The Times took over as editor and chief executive. It is part of Prospect Publishing Limited.[1] [2] [3]
Intelligence contacts
David Goodhart admitted to journalist Solomon Hughes that he had met with intelligence officials a number of times:
- John Scarlett Junior, son of MI6 boss John Scarlett, worked as an intern at Prospect in late 2007. Goodhart told me: ‘There was no connection with his father over his appointment.’ However, Goodhart said that ‘I did subsequently meet his father at a seminar and he thanked me for giving his son some useful experience.’
Hassan Butt
Journalist Aatish Taseer interviewed the British jihadist Hassan Butt for a an article which appeared inthe August 2005 edition of Prospect.[5]
A second interview with Butt, by journalist Shiv Malik, appeared in Prospect in 2007.[6]
The number of mentions of Butt in Prospect prompted Solomon Hughes to wonder whether the magazine had been pointed to him by the security services:
- editor Goodhart said that, ‘I did once hear that the services regard the Shiv Malik piece on 7/7 as essential reading inside the “security state”’ and added: ‘a Pentagon official once said the same.’
People
Editorial Staff
- David Goodhart Editor
- James Crabtree Managing Editor
- Hilly Janes Executive Editor
- Susha Ireland Senior Editor
- Tom Chatfield Arts and Books Editor
- Mary Fitzgerald Assistant Editor
- Brian Semple Editorial Assistant
- Alexander Linklater Associate Editor
- Bartle Bull Foreign Editor
- David Killen Creative Director[8]
Publishing Staff
- David Hanger Publisher and Chief Executive
- Andy Hawkins Marketing & Circulation Manager
- James Varcoe Head of Sales
- Pauline Joy Finance Manager[9]
Contributing Editors
Philip Ball | Barry Cox | Anthony Dworkin | Catherine Fieschi | Jonathan Ford | Dean Godson | AC Grayling | David Herman | Robert Jackson | Josef Joffe | Anatole Kaletsky | Philippe Legrain | Michael Lind | John Lloyd | Jean McCrindle | Oliver Morton | Toby Mundy | Kamran Nazeer | Jonathan Power | Ayanna Prevatt-Goldstein | Katharine Quarmby | Alex Renton | Ben Rogers | Erik Tarloff[10]
Circulation
As of 2010, it has a circulation of 30,400, which makes it apparently 'the fastest growing title of its kind'. [2] [3]
Contact
External Resources
- Solomon Hughes, Whose Prospect? (pdf), Lobster 58, Winter 2009/10, p.85.
Notes
- ↑ About, Prospect, accessed 22 February 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Directors of Prospect magazine have appointed Bronwen Maddox as Editor and Chief Executive, accessed 8 March 2011.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ben Dowell, David Goodhart to step down as Prospect editor, guardian.co.uk, Monday 7 June 2010, accessed 8 March 2010
- ↑ Solomon Hughes, Whose Prospect? (pdf), Lobster 58, Winter 2009/10, p.85.
- ↑ Aatish Taseer, A British Jihadist, Prospect, 28 July 2005.
- ↑ Shiv Malik, My brother the bomber, Prospect, 30 June 2007.
- ↑ Solomon Hughes, Whose Prospect? (pdf), Lobster 58, Winter 2009/10, p.85.
- ↑ Staff, Prospect, accessed 22 February 2010.
- ↑ Staff, Prospect, accessed 22 February 2010.
- ↑ Staff, Prospect, accessed 22 February 2010.