Arrivals & Departures
Scott Trust appointments
New members have been appointed to the Scott Trust, believed to be the most successful public-interest trust in the world. The trust is the owner of the Guardian Media Group, and the Guardian's economics editor, Larry Elliott, has become the journalist trustee, succeeding Malcolm Dean.
A lawyer, Geraldine Proudler, succeeds Lord Phillips of Sudbury, who is retiring. Ms Proudler is a specialist in media litigation and has acted for the Guardian in its successful defences of libel actions. The new trustees begin their terms in January.
The chairman of the trust, journalist Hugo Young, said it was vital to have trustees with strong professional voices, and an understanding of independent journalism. A former Guardian editor, Peter Preston, and the present editor, Alan Rusbridger, are also members, as are two members of the Scott family, John and Martin.
Tina's farewell to New Yorker
After six years of success as editor of one of America's bestknown literary journals, Tina Brown left the New Yorker to begin a new stage in her colourful career with Disney's Miramax, to launch a new multimedia company.
Here is a brief extract from her farewell article in the New Yorker.
"So the New Yorker did change. We opened our doors and the world rushed in. But when I look back I realise how much the experience changed me, too.
"Each day, I had to thrash out my ideas with people who understood - and cared fervently about - the magazine's essential character.
"The New Yorker's Caslon typeface was, I discovered, a polygraph test for writing: mediocre prose, however innocuous it might be elsewhere, looked shift-eyed and guilty in our galleys, and out it went.
"Was the writing good enough for the New Yorker ? That was every day's foremost question. And though the rigour of this process could be wearing, the magazine's evolution depended on it.
"We were always in negotiation with the past, even as we embraced the present..."
"Earning the right to be editor of the New Yorker, day after day, is the burden of this job, and its reward. My successor, David Remnick, is known to readers for his lucid prose, his incisive curiosity, and his warm heart.
."Both as a writer and as a reader, he loves and understands the institution and will strive, as an editor, to honour it." - With acknowledgment to the New Yorker
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