WIRED UK has announced the first speakers for its annual conference WIRED Smarter on Wednesday 30th October at Kings Place, London. Curated by WIRED’s editorial team, WIRED Smarter is a one-day conference dedicated to exploring the future of business.

We spoke to the official Dennis the Menace artist about his childhood passion for drawing comics, how he makes the cartoons relevant to readers in these rapidly changing times and how an editor once told him to forget about creating humour strips. All these years and thousands of comic strips later, it seems that Nigel Parkinson has the last laugh!

The Boards of Bauer Media Group and Seven West Media announced an agreement for Bauer Media to acquire Pacific Magazines, which publishes a leading portfolio of iconic Australian and New Zealand media brands – including Better Homes & Gardens, New Idea and Marie Claire.

While you might not be surprised to find a child glued to a television or mobile phone screen, you might not expect to find them with a magazine in their hand. Amanda Clifford, Editorial Director of Signature Publishing, which has launched over 17 children's magazines, speaks to us about just how popular this medium is for the young, the massive post bag they receive every day and how they track what's trendy and what's not.

The PPA will be sponsoring a debate in the Houses of Parliament, on the motion: "Magazine media is this country's greatest cultural export".

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