By Bill Thompson, honorary visiting fellow at City and now head of partnership development at BBC Online, takes us on a trip to the year 2000 in our last edition of Old News. It was a time when journalists were quaking in their boots at the prospect of the web and the
Old News: 2003 predicts the future of lads mags
Bauer Media announced in November it would be suspending the publication of FHM and Zoo magazines, and Playboy revealed its first non-nude cover at the beginning of February. It’s almost as if Andy Morris, former online editor at GQ and now acting deputy editor at BA High Life, predicted the
Old News: XCity 1994’s thoughts on the internet
As XCity reaches the ripe old age of 30, we thought we would delve into the magazine archives and republish some of the magazine’s finest content. Warning: words and images may provoke severe nostalgia for the past. Here’s our first installment, where Andrew Johnson, now assistant news editor at The
