Swansong: Managing Editor

Michael Sanders

It has become something of a tradition for departing editors, often leaving the Erudition News Group for pastures new, to write their final article as a kind of swansong, reviewing their time with us.

For me, now, alas, the time has come, to speak of many things. Not of ships and shoes, but of times past and, perhaps, of the future. You will have to forgive me if I appear longer-winded than many of my predecessors in this swansong – the reasons for this, I hope, will soon become apparent.

Erudition and Reading Online News, prior to their closure in November last year, (currently undergoing refurbishment), ran for a 19 editions over two and a half years, and you are reading this in Intuition’s 9th edition since its launch in September 2009. I am proud to have been able to serve as Managing Editor for all 28 editions, over the course of the last three years. In that time I have worked with six Editors in Chief, from Verity Burke’s brief tenure in 2007 to Natasha Gross’s record breaking stay of nine editions.

In that time I cannot claim to have seen eye to eye with all of those editors, or with all of my other colleagues, all of the time – the disparity in interests, disciplines and beliefs among such a team will inevitably see to that, but for the most part (with some notable exceptions) it has been a privilege to work with each of them.

Together, what have we achieved? Two publications, four different iterations of our website, four marketing campaigns, three recruitment campaigns, readers in their thousands on four continents, and hundreds of articles on everything form the future of Milan Fashion Week to our detailed live coverage of the 2008 US election – my monthly spreadsheet...

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