Leisure/lifestyle

Sophie Ferron

Founder & President, Media Ranch

29th July 2022

The secrets behind bringing ‘structured reality’ to the small screen

Harry Mount

Editor, The Oldie

8th July 2022

Tales from five years in the editor’s chair – and a “surprisingly youthful readership”

Zillah Byng-Thorne

CEO, Future plc

19th May 2022

The strategy behind building the company to a £4bn valuation

Erin McCarthy

VP & Editor-in-Chief, Mental Floss

13th May 2022

The intellectual trivia brand – which has reached over 1 billion “curious people”

Darren Scott

Editor, SFX

31st March 2022

Life in the editor’s chair of the world’s leading sci-fi, fantasy and horror magazine

Nathalie Cox

Co-Founder & Creative Director, CountryLine TV & Radio

17th March 2022

Bringing country music to British fans

Simon Leslie

Joint CEO, Ink

17th February 2022

Producing 33 in-flight magazines for 24 airlines worldwide… and how the covid crisis ultimately bought opportunity

Simon Walker

Founder & CEO, Marquee TV

30th December 2021

Launching a ‘Netflix for the arts’ platform – throwing a lifeline to artists during the pandemic

Will Welch and Adam Baidawi

All change at GQ: the new global leadership

28th October 2021

Noah Shachtman

Editor-in-Chief, Rolling Stone

14th October 2021

Taking the helm of the world-famous music, politics and culture title – with plans to go “faster, louder, harder”

Sandro Monetti

Hollywood journalist & presenter

16th September 2021

Journalist and writer of ‘Confessions of a Hollywood Insider’ on La La Land’s post Covid future

Christine Hayes

Group Editor-in-Chief, BBC Good Food & olive magazine

16th July 2021

Rising to the pandemic’s challenge – a huge interest in home cooking, and a team innovating to deliver during lockdown

Joshua Foer

Co-Founder, Atlas Obscura

17th June 2021

The journey cataloguing the “wonders of the world” – and “accidentally” becoming a global memory champion

Warren Webster

CEO, Atlas Obscura

17th June 2021

The “exciting opportunities” ahead for one of the world’s most popular travel websites

Ashkan Karbasfrooshan

Chairman & CEO, WatchMojo

13th May 2021

Leading a global YouTube brand from scratch – now with 40 million subscribers and 17 billion views

Juliet Kinsman

Sustainability Editor, Conde Nast Traveller

29th April 2021

A challenging but prosperous future for the travel industry – sustainable in every sense

Jamie East

Journalist and presenter

14th January 2021

A media entrepreneur’s adventures in broadcasting across TV, radio and digital – and that controversial talkRADIO resignation

Nicholas Coleridge

Chairman, Victoria and Albert Museum

5th November 2020

Reflecting on nearly three decades leading Conde Nast – transforming the global magazine industry

Scott Omelianuk

Editor-in-Chief, Inc.

22nd October 2020

The new editor-in-chief shares his plans to revitalise the iconic business magazine

Toby Young

Journalist & campaigner

1st October 2020

The writer and provocateur argues that the government has got it wrong on lockdown – and ‘cancel culture’ makes it harder to speak out