A year ago, Vanessa Kingori MBE joined British Vogue during a very exciting time, a time where she’ll tell future generations, “I was there.” As the magazine’s first female Publisher since it launched over 100 years ago, she’s making history herself. Vanessa walks us through her high-powered, yet surprisingly numbers-driven role, where she shuns coffee for herbal tea, plans her outfits a week in advance and relishes the joy of missing out (JOMO) during her downtime.

Book Publicist by day and true crime aficionado by night (and weekends), Grace Harrison co-founded Foul Play magazine with her previous colleague Emma Hardy when they couldn’t find what they wanted to read on the subject. Although Foul Play is not the first true crime magazine, "it is the first true crime magazine to be made by women that focusses on being respectful and non-sensational".  Sounds killer to us (sorry, we had to)...

While ELLE's Deputy Editor might have started her journey across the pond in New York, her job does not live up to The Devil Wears Prada stereotypes.  In fact, she tells us that fashion weeks are less glamorous and more "demanding" than anything and recounts some memorable early journalistic experiences where she starred as a music video extra and joined an all-women's deer hunt...

As Features Writer at that's life!, Clare explains that the nature of real-life journalism makes it possible to complete 98% of her work at her desk – unless she's scoping out the birthplace of EastEnders. In her free time, she's busy listening to one of Bauer Radio's main competitors...

Kevin Petley is Business Director at HELLO! and a PPA board member. Kevin works with the newstrade group that is shaping the Press Pause campaign, a cross-industry initiative to promote magazines to consumers and increase sales at retail. 

We talked to him about what lies behind his love for magazines, and what he thinks about the future of the industry.

As someone with "Bad Influencer" as her Twitter bio, this Columnist is not afraid to cause a stir. Whether it's weighing in on the Westminster sex scandal or gun control, or penning "controversial" book Hot Feminist, Polly has "always been pretty sure of [her] own mind"...

Dennis Publishing's Talent Acquisition Manager, HR,  has always thrived in a customer-centric environment, making her the perfect fit to work on the new apprenticeship scheme, Evolve. More on this to follow, but first, let's get to know the woman behind the project.

Despite being the Co-founder and CEO of Pugpig, Jonny owns neither a pug nor a pig, and counts Dennis Publishing, The Economist, Condé Nast and Hearst as clients...

With one week to go before the PPA Awards, we hear from Editor of the Year (Business Media) nominee Louise Banham – the Editor-in-Chief of Newtrade by day, theatre aficionado by night.

Andy charts the "laundry list" of places he worked before starting his own business, Cowles Media.London. The award-winning Creative Director recently returned from New York, where he spoke at the Rolling Stone conference about his time there and the freedom that the magazine still represents.

The Publishing Director of the Enterprise Technology division at Incisive Media talks making the move from print to digital a decade before most b2b brands and why the future of publishing lies in events.

This week I spoke with Chemist+Druggist's Clinical Editor about innovative ways to attract new audiences, the importance of organisation and losing himself on a remote island in Wales...

The Group Product Director at Time Inc. UK offers a straight-shooting overview of his career, ruminating on how a shirt, jeans and brown brogues have become the media uniform – and why we should never underestimate the power of bar codes...

Handling a silver pitcher worth around £17,000 is all in a day's work for the Editor of Homes & Antiques. Melanie ended up in publishing as a "wonderful coincidence" after originally pursuing a career in theatre. She's never stopped enjoying Hugh Jackman's "beautiful" singing voice though...

The Director of Events at Haymarket Business Media got his start in econometrics before segueing into conference production. When he's not hanging out at a show build, he's regretting not investing in Bitcoin and enjoying an artichoke or two...

When the Group Editor-in-Chief of Total Film and SFX prepares for work, she has to make sure she's green screen ready – and when she's not in the office, you'll find her in the "spa in the sky"...