Records showing a $15m mortgage on the property taken out in 2018 created a rare publicity spike for the serial entrepreneur, who has managed to keep a low profile despite his reputation as a shrewd deal-maker. Yet persistence paid off. The paper welcomed Labour's 1945 general election victory but took a critical line on the new government's foreign policy. Danson was reported to have walked away with more than 200m after selling shares before and during the deal, while Informa was left nursing a battered balance sheet as the global financial crash took its toll within months of the takeover. Dods rose 2 pence, or 18 percent, to 13 pence yesterday, the. The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London. Va ser fundat el 1913 per Sidney i Beatrice Webb, membres del moviment esquerr Societat fabiana. In October 2012 the magazine was guest-edited by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei[54] and, for the first time, published simultaneously in Mandarin (in digital form) and English. Its contributors have included John Maynard Keynes, Bertrand Russell, Virginia Woolf, Christopher Hitchens, and Paul Johnson. In 2009, he bought the New Statesman from Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson through a series of deals. That included broadening his focus with a tilt into political magazines. So far, the companys results have proven robust. Organic growth accounted for more than half of the increase. In November last year, Cowley told the Financial Times that the global intrigue in Brexit, Boris Johnson and Britains constitutional crisis had convinced Danson the title was worthy of fresh investment. In my early weeks in the job I received an email from a young fellow called Leo Robson who had just graduated from Warwick University. In October 2013 the magazine was guest-edited by Russell Brand, with contributions from David Lynch, Noel Gallagher, Naomi Klein, Rupert Everett, Amanda Palmer, and Alec Baldwin,[58] as well as an essay by Brand.[59]. Certainly his commitment to the New Statesman is long-term.". Although he was impressed by the former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock's modernising fervour, he adds: "I never believed in the party enough to become a member. Cowley insists the Statesman can be profitable. "[17], The magazine provoked further controversy with its coverage of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union. [19] In 1934 it ran an interview with Stalin by H. G. Wells. Multimillionaire businessman Michael Danson has taken a stake in Wigan Warriors Rugby League club. Under Kampfner's editorship, a relaunch in 2006 initially saw headline circulation climb to over 30,000. DANSON, Michael Thomas Correspondence address John Carpenter House, John Carpenter Street, London, England, EC4Y 0AN . Currently, Mr. Danson is Chief Executive Officer & Director at GlobalData Plc and Investment Partner at PROfounders Capital Partners LLP. Although Cowley was previously literary editor of the Statesman (from 1999 to 2002), Danson's decision to parachute him into the editor's chair surprised some staff, who questioned whether their new boss had the political instincts of his predecessors Peter Wilby and John Kampfner. The magazines expansion, with plans for new bureaus in America, China and Brussels, comes despite a hit during the pandemic. That sounds like the wish-list of every new editor, but Cowley is confident money will be made available to make it a reality. I don't want to edit a loss-making magazine.". The Lockdown Files only confirm every suspicion we had about the pandemic government, Undermining Sue Grays integrity wont save Boris Johnson, Sue Grays appointment is bad for public life and bad for Labour, Universal Credit falls short of covering the bare essentials. He wanted to write about politics and so I called him in. Fred and Peter Done Net worth: 1.235bn It marked the end of a 13-year. Suzanne Moore, who wrote an occasional column, subsequently resigned in protest, although the magazine pointed out she was not on its staff and had been listed as a contributing editor, an unpaid position. He is also on the board of 13 other companies. But, he tells James Robinson, he hopes a broader, lighter touch will steady the magazine, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Jason Cowley, editor of New Statesman. Please review our, You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. International Intelligence History Association, p. 63. Image via NBC. Please, The subscription details associated with this account need to be updated. In this chapter Mike Danson explores the challenges of economic development, sustainability, enterprise and resilient communities in peripheral areas and the potential role . Cowley says he wants to shed the Staggers's reputation as read mainly by "a rainbow coalition of disaffected leftists, which is how the magazine has sometimes been perceived". Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, the New Statesman has notably recognised and published new writers and critics, as well as encouraged notable careers. His stewardship was not without controversy. Murray Legg The issue included a previously unpublished poem[49] by Ted Hughes, "Last letter", describing what happened during the three days leading up to the suicide of his first wife, the poet Sylvia Plath. But that wasnt my aspiration, not least because the Spectator is a magazine of opinion that does not publish essays or more ambitious long reads. From the outside the New Statesman which was rapidly losing circulation and struggling to adapt to the challenges as well as the opportunities of the digital age looked to be a magazine in serious trouble. [20] Martin also refused to allow any of the magazine's writers to review Leon Trotsky's anti-Stalinist book The Revolution Betrayed. Shares in the business are down more than 15pc at 12 since the start of the year. Support 100 years of independent journalism. A new day dawned for the New Statesman yesterday when control of the influential, but financially weak left-wing weekly magazine, switched to Mike Danson. This compares to the magazine's overall circulation of 36,591,[1] and paid-for circulation of 34,451 as of January 2021, the highest level for 40 years. Staff were briefed about the change of ownership at lunchtime today. If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication". Pragmatism and moderation are desirable, especially in this age of extremes. As well as Bright, who had applied for the editor's job, several other senior figures, including the associate editor Barbara Gunnell and, most recently, the deputy editor, Sue Matthias, have left since Cowley arrived. In the intervening years, he has donated some 10m to bursaries for under-privileged students in his old college at Oxford University and other educational causes in Africa, Asia and the UK. Cowley has recruited new writers and plans to extend the scope of the magazine. Long before streaming video services and recipe boxes turned monthly payments into an economic force, Danson was taking annual subscription fees from blue-chip companies who would pay for industry intelligence reports and conference calls with analysts. Y1 - 2015. The ultimate question is whether he will attempt to repeat what he did with Datamonitor by making a timely exit when GlobalData is at its peak. Mike Danson, the owner of the New Statesman and Press Gazette, on Friday announced a proposed reverse takeover of TMN Group, the Aim-listed internet marketing company. Danson lives with his family in Los Angeles. The company was floated in 2000, Mr Danson retaining a significant stake. The New Statesman's editor, Jason Cowley, said earlier this month that his proprietor, Mike Danson, had big plans. I don't read the Mail on Sunday. Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, SE1 9GF. 0:00. If you thought the Informa deals were doozies, Mike Danson negotiates even better with himself. Historically, the magazine was affectionately referred to as "The Staggers" because of its crises of funding, ownership, and circulation. "There's been some financial restructuring that resulted in redundancies and some people leaving for whatever reason. [36], In January 2009, the magazine refused to recognise the National Union of Journalists, the trade union to which almost of all its journalists belonged, though further discussions were promised but never materialised. He also wants to banish the title's image as "overly serious and pompous" and says he has already done that by introducing a broader range of writers, including Bryan Appleyard and Tom Holland, restoring some levity to a magazine traditionally read by political obsessives. Placing Campbell in charge is slightly different from asking him to pen a column, of course, but Cowley is at pains to stress his title will be more inclusive than it has been in the past. New Statesman s un setmanari poltic i cultural britnic. September 19, 2016, 12:34 PM. While the long-term future of the news magazine might have looked patchy at the time of Dansons investment, Douglas McCabe, of Enders Analysis, says the outlook is now much brighter. Although Robinson and Danson insist the joint ownership arrangement worked well, some observers claim it made it difficult to manage the title effectively. New Statesman co-owner Mike Danson has invested a five-figure sum in the unofficial party blog LabourHome. [26], In 1994, KGB defector Yuri Shvets said that the KGB utilised the New Statesman to spread disinformation. RT @enokay69: Kay69 drinking water soon. The Campbell edition prompted Suzanne Moore, one of the Statesman's (unpaid) contributing editors, to attack it in the Mail on Sunday and sever her connection with the magazine. The New Statesman was founded in 1913 by Sidney and Beatrice Webb with the support of George Bernard Shaw and other prominent members of the Fabian Society. In November 1914, three months after the beginning of the war, the New Statesmen published a lengthy anti-war supplement by Shaw, "Common Sense About The War",[12] a scathing dissection of its causes, which castigated all nations involved but particularly savaged the British. This editorship was condemned by Suzanne Moore, a contributor to the magazine for twenty years. [46], In March 2009, the magazine had its first guest editor, Alastair Campbell, the former head of communications for Tony Blair. [2] Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, it was at first connected with Sidney and Beatrice Webb and other leading members of the socialist Fabian Society, such as George Bernard Shaw, who was a founding director. The former British prime minister Gordon Brown guest-edited the magazine in 2016, a special edition exploring Britain's relationship with Europe ahead of the EU referendum. Mike Danson is the maddening Brit who, in 2007, sold Datamonitor to Informa for 502m, only to buy it back eight years later for just 25m. Founded in 1913, and connected with leading members of the Fabian Society, the magazine reached a circulation peak in the late 1960s. The New Statesmans global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. The media tycoon who owns the weekly political magazine the New Statesman is poised to snap up the bible of the super yacht world in a deal worth tens of millions of pounds. "But we, the Lenagan family have 75% of the shares. Now, he's busy building another billion dollar research and data business, GlobaData Plc. Can Keir Starmers vision of the great unbinding of Britain save the Union? After Johnson's departure in 1970, the Statesman went into a long period of declining circulation under successive editors: Richard Crossman (197072), who tried to edit it at the same time as playing a major role in Labour politics; Anthony Howard (197278), whose recruits to the paper included Christopher Hitchens, Martin Amis and James Fenton (surprisingly, the arch anti-Socialist Auberon Waugh was writing for the Statesman at this time before returning to The Spectator); Bruce Page (197882), who moved the paper towards specialising in investigative journalism, sacking Arthur Marshall, who had been writing for the Statesman on and off since 1935, as a columnist, allegedly because of the latter's support for Margaret Thatcher; Hugh Stephenson (198286), under whom it took a strong position again for unilateral nuclear disarmament; John Lloyd (198687), who swung the paper's politics back to the centre; Stuart Weir (198790), under whose editorship the Statesman founded the Charter 88 constitutional reform pressure group; and Steve Platt (199096). It's there to be subsidised.' He insists the 20,000 fee GlobalData charges for its core product remains cheap for multinationals, which are hungry for data during uncertain times. It became strongly anti-fascist and pacifist, opposing British rearmament. He made 174million when the company was sold to Informa in a 500million deal. Clearly, we are commercial, he says. 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"Mike Danson is a very private man. Over almost two millennia, Scotland's western and northern isles have had complex and conflicting relationships both with the kingdom of Scotland and with the ensuing stateless nation that has its own issue with its neighbour on the 'fractured island' (Burnett 2013 . The magazine published a 186-page centenary special in April 2013, the largest single issue in its history. Yet it was the companys focus on subscriptions that proved a turning point. Wilby responded to the criticisms in a subsequent issue. The magazine was founded by members of the Fabian Society as a weekly review of politics and literature. Unlike Upper East Siders Donald Trump and actor Bill Murray, few would crane their necks if the unassuming chief executive of GlobalData walked through the neighbourhood. Mike Danson is the man that runs Progressive Digital Media, owner of the New Statesman and he also founded Datamonitor, a market research business that he later sold in 2007 for a fortune! However, over 5,000 of these were apparently monitored free copies,[33] and Kampfner failed to maintain the 30,000 circulation he had pledged. The foundation was previously chaired by Lord Lebedev, the owner of the Evening Standard. An admirer of the New Yorker and the Economist, Cowley has introduced longer reads to the Statesman, but there is no plan to transform it into a Vanity Fair for policy wonks. An editor, like a sports coach, must of course have a method, a plan and a style of play, as it were, but he or she also needs luck. We just literally squeezed over some of the big institutions didnt vote for it, Danson said at the time. "[22] The magazine also condemned the Soviet Invasion of Finland.[23]. In April 2008, he acquired 50 per cent of the New Statesman from Geoffrey, who had been sole proprietor since 1996. But professing commitment to leftwing values in that rightwing rag lends a somewhat weakened credibility to anything she says. John Kampfner, Wilby's political editor, succeeded him as editor in May 2005 following considerable internal lobbying[citation needed]. However, others have described how his relentless commercial focus on retaining customers has driven an aggressive sales culture at GlobalData. On Monday, Danson announced plans for a fresh takeover blitz to help bolster the market value of his data analytics and consultancy business beyond 1.3bn. Pre-tax profits, however, slipped by 6pc to 15m. by John Reynolds To continue reading this article you need to be registered with Campaign. 1. Filter appointments Filter appointments Current appointments Total number of appointments 7 Date of birth May 1973. [43], As of 2020, the New Statesman considers itself a "print-digital hybrid" with peak online traffic of over 4 million unique visitors per month, almost a four-fold increase since 2011. However, the magazine still fascinates the chatterati despite its low circulation, and conjecture has mounted about its future since Danson first acquired a 50% share last April. LONDON - Press Gazette has been saved from closure after it was acquired by publisher Progressive Media, the group run by New Statesman owner Mike Danson. I didnt apply to be editor and wasnt much interested in being so when I was first asked to meet the businessman and philanthropist Mike Danson (who would soon buy full control of the New Statesman from the Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson) back in 2008. The Good Place creator Mike Schur has reunited with the hit comedy's star Ted Danson for The Mole Agent, a new serialized comedy, which has hit the premium/streaming marketplace, sparking heated bidding, sources tell Deadline. The project is based on the 2020 Chilean feature documentary The Mole. He has no specific, partisan position he wishes to push.". According to its present self-description, it has a liberal and progressive political position. The Competition feature, in which readers submitted jokes and often parodies and pastiches of the work of famous authors, became one of the most famous parts of the magazine. The question is: Could The Economist's investors resist a cash and/or shares offer for EIU of, say, 250m (20 x operating profit)? In the following year it expanded its web presence by establishing two new websites: May2015.com, a polling data site focused on the 2015 general election, and CityMetric, a cities magazine site under the tagline, "Urbanism for the social media age" and edited by Jonn Elledge. He has given the New Statesman an edge and a relevance to current affairs it hasnt had for years."[41]. As with all books by. While learning self awareness . he New Statesman's editor, Jason Cowley, said earlier this month that his proprietor, Mike Danson, had big plans. What was there not to like about it? It is not known how much Danson paid. T he New Statesman's editor, Jason Cowley, said earlier this month that his proprietor, Mike Danson, had big plans. Martin retired in 1960 and was replaced as editor by John Freeman, a politician and journalist who had resigned from the Labour government in 1951 along with Bevan and Harold Wilson. The regional STOXX 600 index fell 3.4% per month after regaining records in early September, but fell 0.9% at the start of the session. Every editor starts with a belief that he (its always been a he so far) can restore the magazines glory days, wrote Peter Wilby, who was editor from 1998 to 2005. When billionaire hedge fund manager Marc Lasry put his $32m (26m) New York mansion up for sale, the buyer proved a more elusive figure than his celebrity neighbours. In 2000, Datamonitor completed its flotation on the London Stock Exchange and was sold to Informa for 502 million in 2007. A week later, I received an email from a friend of Robsons, another recent Warwick graduate called George Eaton. One of the fall's most anticipated new comedies, The Good Place, premieres tonight on NBC. Cowley is unrepentant about Campbell's week in charge, privately enthusing about his hands-on approach. n aprilie 2008 Geoffrey Robinson a vndut o participaie de 50% afaceristului Mike Danson, iar restul un an mai trziu. The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London. Stolen this off a topic on Total RL, but there's a guy on there claiming that someone called Mike Danson (owner of the new statesman) has bought a stake in Wigan. [10] In 2018, New Statesman America was launched. Danson, owner of the New Statesman magazine, said in a regulatory filing yesterday that he sold his stake at 13.5 pence per share. Mike Danson is CEO/Co-Founder at Globaldata PLC. Michael T. Danson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director of the Company. The company's suit against rival Dansons in Arizona District Court was dismissed with prejudice by Judge . A redesign is planned for the summer - Cowley has recruited his former OSM colleague Gordon Thomson, who recently resigned as editor of Time Out, as a consultant to oversee the new look. The Danson Foundation was founded by Mike Danson (Law, 1982) and his wife Helen to support all students to achieve their potential regardless of background. GlobalData said it would never invest in artificial intelligence to replace journalists, while Danson says he is more focused on providing in-depth analysis. It also absorbed The Week-end Review in 1934 (one element of which survives in the shape of the New Statesman's Weekly Competition, and the other the "This England" feature). And as a reader of American magazines such as the Atlantic, reinvented as a print-digital hybrid, it seemed obvious to me what was needed: take the New Statesman upmarket; make it more politically sceptical and unpredictable; free it from the clutches of the Labour Party; publish longer and better-written pieces; burnish its literary pages; [citation needed]. A2 - MacIntosh, Robert. Chairman of the weekly title, Geoffrey Robinson, said in a statement . In the first six months of 2018, the company did even better, increasing EBITDA by 31% to 14.6m on revenues that were up 32%. [44], At the 2020 British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME) awards, editor Jason Cowley was named Current Affairs and Politics editor of the year for the fourth time, defeating rivals from The Spectator, The Big Issue and Prospect. Contributors to the issue included the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and Michael Sandel. She wrote in a Mail on Sunday article: "New Statesman fiercely opposed the Iraq war and yet now hands over the reins to someone key in orchestrating that conflict". And the next generation is now emerging: Sophie McBain, Anna Leszkiewicz, Anoosh Chakelian, Patrick Maguire Watching their progress has been one of the pleasures of my job. Circulation grew enormously under Martin's editorship, reaching 70,000 by the end of the Second World War. Yet the 59-year-old entrepreneur, who lives in London with his children and wife Helen, may struggle to repeat what he achieved with Datamonitor when the economic outlook continues to sour. Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. Then, theres the fact that GlobalData Plc pays Dansons own company for its offices as well as for accounting, HR, IT, and facilities management. In October 2014, the magazine was guest-edited by the artist Grayson Perry, whose essay titled "Default Man" was widely discussed. Mike Danson, the millionaire businessman who owns half of the New Statesman, is set to take full control within three years. Thank you for your support and happy Christmas to all our readers. The leading GlobalData brands include: Canadean, Kable,Verdict,Current Analysis,PharmSource, andMarketLine.
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