As someone who worked under you, Jo, my favorite meetings were those when digital got sit in on the print monthly meetings. You were/are electric. Six months before I moved to the states, a former colleague tried to poach me, saying wouldn't it "be nice to leave those Conde Nasties behind" ? It was the first time I ever heard that nickname, and also could not have been farther from my experience. Keep the memories coming!
People can be nice, if they genuinely like you. But often those people who genuinely like you are side-lined by people more important in the pecking-order. As to women supporting women? I have to say that I have more opposite experiences than the ones when one woman in power supported another one, simply because she could and wanted to. Being healthily competitive is one thing, promoting bitchiness towards each other is probably one of the reasons why glossies failed so spectacularly - and I say this as someone who loved reading long-reads in glossies and miss quality articles more than words can say. I will also never forget my experience for being asked to write an article for an international CN title, doing research and interviews, writing, editing - for my article never to see the light of day, the editor and beauty editor never replying nor apologising - suffice to say I never got paid for my work either. And most glossy editors I got to meet in person (apart from Tina Brown) turned out to be very disappointing in real life.
As someone who worked under you, Jo, my favorite meetings were those when digital got sit in on the print monthly meetings. You were/are electric. Six months before I moved to the states, a former colleague tried to poach me, saying wouldn't it "be nice to leave those Conde Nasties behind" ? It was the first time I ever heard that nickname, and also could not have been farther from my experience. Keep the memories coming!
People can be nice, if they genuinely like you. But often those people who genuinely like you are side-lined by people more important in the pecking-order. As to women supporting women? I have to say that I have more opposite experiences than the ones when one woman in power supported another one, simply because she could and wanted to. Being healthily competitive is one thing, promoting bitchiness towards each other is probably one of the reasons why glossies failed so spectacularly - and I say this as someone who loved reading long-reads in glossies and miss quality articles more than words can say. I will also never forget my experience for being asked to write an article for an international CN title, doing research and interviews, writing, editing - for my article never to see the light of day, the editor and beauty editor never replying nor apologising - suffice to say I never got paid for my work either. And most glossy editors I got to meet in person (apart from Tina Brown) turned out to be very disappointing in real life.