Prospect (magazine)

Prospect (magazine) was launched by its former editor David Goodhart in October 1995. In June 2010 he became 'editor-at-large' and Bronwen Maddox from The Times took over as editor and chief executive. It is part of Prospect Publishing Limited.About, Prospect, accessed 22 February 2010. The Directors of Prospect magazine have appointed Bronwen Maddox as Editor and Chief Executive, accessed 8 March 2011. Ben Dowell, David Goodhart to step down as Prospect editor, guardian.co.uk, Monday 7 June 2010, accessed 8 March 2010
==Intelligence contacts==
David Goodhart admitted to journalist Solomon Hughes that he had met with intelligence officials a number of times:
::John Scarlett Junior, son of MI6 boss John Scarlett, worked as an intern at Prospect in late 2007. Goodhart told me: ‘There was no connection with his father over his appointment.’ However, Goodhart said that ‘I did subsequently meet his father at a seminar and he thanked me for giving his son some useful experience.’ 
::Goodhart also told me about ‘meeting security service people at a couple of seminars’ and ‘one dinner’. Goodhart downplayed these meetings with MI5 officials, but added, ‘Yes I support the security services, don't you?’Solomon Hughes, Whose Prospect? (pdf), Lobster 58, Winter 2009/10, p.85.
==Hassan Butt==
Journalist Aatish Taseer interviewed the British jihadist Hassan Butt for a an article which appeared inthe August 2005 edition of Prospect.Aatish Taseer, A British Jihadist, Prospect, 28 July 2005.
A second interview with Butt, by journalist Shiv Malik, appeared in Prospect in 2007.Shiv Malik, My brother the bomber, Prospect, 30 June 2007.
The number of mentions of Butt in Prospect prompted Solomon Hughes to wonder whether the magazine had been pointed to him by the security services:
::editor Goodhart said that, ‘I did once hear that the services regard the Shiv Malik piece on 7/7 as essential reading inside the “security state”’ and added: ‘a Pentagon official once said the same.’
::Goodhart went on to say: ‘if Hassan Butt has now been "exposed" as a liar and fantasist we were certainly not the only ones taken in – there was a big Newsnight interview - and big pieces in several nationals.’Solomon Hughes, Whose Prospect? (pdf), Lobster 58, Winter 2009/10, p.85.
==People==
===Editorial Staff===
*David Goodhart Editor
*James Crabtree Managing Editor
*Hilly Janes Executive Editor
*Susha Ireland Senior Editor
*Tom Chatfield Arts and Books Editor
*Mary Fitzgerald Assistant Editor
*Brian Semple Editorial Assistant
*Alexander Linklater Associate Editor
*Bartle Bull Foreign Editor
*David Killen Creative DirectorStaff, Prospect, accessed 22 February 2010.
===Publishing Staff===
*David Hanger Publisher and Chief Executive 
*Andy Hawkins Marketing & Circulation Manager 
*James Varcoe Head of Sales 
*Pauline Joy Finance ManagerStaff, Prospect, accessed 22 February 2010.
===Contributing Editors===
Philip Ball | Barry Cox | Anthony Dworkin | Catherine Fieschi | Jonathan Ford | Dean Godson | AC Grayling | David Herman | Robert Jackson | Josef Joffe | Anatole Kaletsky | Philippe Legrain | Michael Lind | John Lloyd | Jean McCrindle | Oliver Morton | Toby Mundy | Kamran Nazeer | Jonathan Power | Ayanna Prevatt-Goldstein | Katharine Quarmby | Alex Renton | Ben Rogers | Erik TarloffStaff, Prospect, accessed 22 February 2010.
==Circulation==
As of 2010, it has a circulation of 30,400, which makes it apparently 'the fastest growing title of its kind'. 
==Contact==
*Website http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/
==External Resources==
*Solomon Hughes, Whose Prospect? (pdf), Lobster 58, Winter 2009/10, p.85.
==Notes==
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