Bronwen Maddox: "I look forward to developing Prospect's range and reach over the coming months."
David Goodhart, who founded the magazine in 1995, and has been its editor since then, is becoming Prospect‘s editor-at-large. David Hanger, publisher of Prospect, said yesterday: “We are delighted to announce that Bronwen Maddox is joining us to take Prospect forward to its next stage. She is a brilliant journalist with authority and an international reputation, and also has a strong commercial background. She will expand the magazine’s reach and presence with great energy. David Goodhart, with immense imagination, intellect and determination, has created and developed Prospect into a powerful magazine with a circulation of 30,400 and a reputation for penetrating, unbiased political analysis and sophisticated cultural coverage.”
Jennifer Coombs, whose husband Derek Coombs backed David Goodhart in starting Prospect, said: “It is a pivotal moment in our history and a great
Susan Greenberg
What great news! Best of luck to everyone
Lisa Charlotte Davis
I’m excited for your new editor to be a woman. Sometimes I feel the contributors are too male!
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Rebecca Johnson Bista
Yes, more women contributors and commentators please.
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Casey Morrison
And some younger views hey..?
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jim evans
Well let`s wish her good luck in her new job….but her CV does rather suggest that she`s fully paid up (and well paid) member of the global financial Establishment!
Can`t see her challenging the crooks who run the world on behalf of Wall Street/Washington/Pentagon somehow…..but then who does?
Gerard Barnes
Keep going with the informative, reflective essays, debate debate and more debate. An intelligent formula has evolved and an intelligent international readership continues to respond.
jonathan power
i still believe david is making a big mistake in stepping down. as i have said to him a couple of times it is his baby and to quote Ronald Reagan talking about the Panama Canal, ´we built it, we ran it, it’s ours’!
No person, even as talented as Bronwen Maddox, will have the same touch as its founder. two different people will never have the same view of life and david will be a hard act to follow.
i’ve told him that the best serious magazines, Encounter and the New Yorker, kept their editors for nearly 40 years. (By the way Encounter did get money in its early days from the CIA but so did a number of world class orchestras and other artistic enterprises- a lot of intellectual enterprises were on their back after the war. I loved writing for it even though i am left of centre.)
The 2 magazines never got dull and they kept up their traditions. I fear for Prospect changing its spots. After all editing is a far different job than being a high powered journalist. (I hope she is not upset by this note in praise of David.)I give one more example and then i’ll shut up and welcome working with Bronwen. For 20 years I wrote a foreign affairs column for the International Herald Tribune. Its best editor, by general consent, was Murray “Buddy” Weiss, who had never been a writer. He started as an office boy on the New York Herald Tribune, the paper whose long list of contributors ranged from Stanley to Marx and to Walter Lippman. Buddy rose to be managing editor before coming to the Herald Tribune and there he hired some of the best writers he could find. It became a glorious paper.
Innes Bowen
Congratulations Bronwen!
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David Morris
I recently took out a trial subscription and was not going to renew but the appointment of Bronwen Maddox has made me change my mind. Although I will miss her articles in the Times I am looking forward to Prospect under her editorship
Good luck Bronwen