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Worst job in journalism is available: be the editor of Heat

Mike Pollitt | Monday 17 January, 2011 13:18

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Another year, another editor for heat magazine. An ad on journo jobsite Gorkana (some good stuff up on there now, incidentally, for you aspiring hacks…) went up on Friday seeking someone to take on one of the highest profile jobs in British journalism. A couple of editors have been and gone since the magazine’s great Arsene Wenger figure Mark Frith wound up his eight year stint in 2008 and upped stakes for Time Out. Are the glory days of celebrity saturated news well and truly behind us, or is there still a public appetite for gawping at sweat marks on ITV2 presenters’ dresses? We do have one helpful suggestion for whoever gets the gig: please capitalise that initial “h”. We’re in a recession now, this is no time to be pissing about with silly grammar.

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