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How do we 🧡 thee? Let us count the ways. LOADS of you have already pre-ordered Issue 1 of The Grub Street Journal. Thank you. You’ve blown us away. If you’ve not earmarked your copy yet, you can preorder via the button below. Go on, give us your support.

Joanna Cummings

Mar 4

And get a sneak peek at our first cover

Mar 1

Publishing ideas worth stealing

Mar 24, 2022

Right! I’m back, or more accurately, we’re back. From this day forth, The Magazine Diaries is officially the companion newsletter to The Grub Street Journal. Plus, I’ll be joined here by the irrepressible Joanna Cummings.

Feb 25

After years of talking about it, I’m launching a magazine. I’ve wanted to publish my own magazine for a very long time. The closest I got was The…

Jan 20

Hello. You might not have noticed, but there was no Magazine Diaries newsletter last week. I could use the excuse of a wonderful day out in Edinburgh…

Dec 9, 2022

I hate Black Friday! It’s meaningless here in the UK - a post-holiday sale without a holiday makes no sense. But even without that absurdity, Black…

Nov 25, 2022

No newsletter this week or next. For the next four or five days I’m writing my section of our Media Moments 2022 report and don’t have space for…

Nov 11, 2022

I heard the best idea story this week. Lin-Manuel Miranda, he of much musical fame, needed a holiday. He headed to Mexico with his wife and, being the…

Nov 5, 2022

My thoughts on the artist formerly known as Kanye West are entirely predictable and not entirely relevant to this newsletter. However, seeing the…

Oct 28, 2022

I subscribed to The Telegraph, a right-leaning UK news title, to get me out of my leftie echo chamber. The paper’s general reporting is solid and they…

Oct 21, 2022

Britain right now is in chaos. Our government is a shambles. The chancellor has just been sacked and the new guy is an old guy most famous for…

Oct 14, 2022

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