A Diary of the Lady: My First Year as Editor

A Diary of the Lady: My First Year as Editor

Johnson, Rachel

     

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Дата выхода: июль 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7181-9232-7
Объём: 480 страниц
Обложка: мягкая

Rachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving "The Lady", Britain`s oldest women`s weekly, in her hilarious diary, "A Diary of The Lady: My First Year and a Half as Editor". `The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty, tatty, disorganized and impossibly old-fashioned, set in an age of doilies and flag-waving patriotism and jam still for tea, some sunny day.` Appointed editor of "The Lady" - the oldest women`s weekly in the world - Rachel Johnson faced the challenge of a lifetime. For a start, how do you become an editor when you`ve never, well, edited? How do you turn a venerable title, full of ads for walk-in baths, during the worst recession ever? And forget doubling the circulation in a year - what on earth do you wear to work when you`ve spent the last fifteen years at home in sweatpants? Will Rachel save "The Lady" - or sink it? "Action-packed, entertaining, marvellously indiscreet. Johnson is everything you want in a diarist and has a compulsive habit of saying the