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All hail!
I can't claim to have been present at the Society Of Magazine Editors Awards tonight, so I will pretend that I am a Daily Mail journalist and make up a report.
Mackem goddess Lauren Laverne steps up to the mike and announces:
"Now we come to the final......and most prestigious award of the evening. Editors Editor Of The Year".
A hush falls over the assembled throng. A list of names is read out. Titans in the world of Editry, one and all. Various besuited/bedressed figures attempt unconvincingly to look nonchalant. Beads of perspiration break out over more than one brow.
"And the winner is...........*now follows the compulsory pause for dramatic effect*........Mark Ellen of The Word". The crowd erupts with delight...nay...joy. The dumbstruck Maccalike is surrounded by well-wishers, some of whom hoist him aloft and bear him towards the stage on their shoulders, through the sea of acclaim.
Once upon the stage and in possession of the hallowed gong, the star of the evening proceeds to thank his family, God, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and all at The Word - curiously forgetting to mention David Hepworth. He then proceeds to regale the wrapt audience with several HOEAs (Hoary Old Editing Anecdotes). After but half an hour of this, he leaves the stage to general cries of "Tell us another" and "You've made me miss my last train home".
He then leads the revellers onto the dance floor, where he may still be engaged in a stately gavotte, even as I type.
Many congratulations sir. Let joy be unconfined.
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And now, with the trophy in the bag, finally
he can change that "lucky" blue shirt.
Ditto with the congratulations. Well deserved.
Oh, well played Sir!
I look forward to official notice from a representative of Development Hell. With photos. After the well deserved sleep-in.
Well done
Couldn't have happened to a nicer fellow.
If you were a proper
Daily Mail hack, you would have mentioned the East Europeans and other assorted foreigners waiting on tables, taking our jobs and almost certainly working in Britain illegally. Not to mention all those swans (rightfully belonging to HM Queen, let's not forget) they reportedly kill and eat all the time.
Otherwise, nice reporting job.
Why was
Mr Hepworth wrestling Kanye West to the ground by the side of the stage as Mark was stepping up to accept the award?
Yo, Mark, I'm really happy for you
Imma let you finish, but Practical Caravan had one of the best editorials of all time...
Well Done!
Can I just add my congratulations to those above. Richly deserved.
Hoo...
and further more ...Rah!
tree
mendous.
Jolly good show!
And congratulations sir!
Lovely Stuff
Not my words etc. etc.
Well deserved award - great news!
Meanwhile, on the TV Quick table..
Gnashing of teeth and muttered oaths as a takeover is planned by way of revenge..
I might point out
That TVQuick closed last July.
Slave like
media tart.
Has Cameron approached him
to be his new press officer yet?
Of course there is the private detective he hired to follow Kate Bush to be considered...
And then there's all that Morrissey phone hacking scandal...
What d'ya mean you hadn't heard?
Good oh
Congrats Mark, well deserved! Here's to another 200 great issues. I suggest you inflict a day of Jerry Garcia guitar solos on the synth pop crowd in the office to celebrate!
I was there!
And I did go over and congratulate him, but by this time the Absolute 80s disco was really kicking in and I couldn't really hear a word he was saying over Love & Pride (and probably vice versa).
But he did seem genuinely thrilled to win. He won a raffle prize and got to kiss Lauren Laverne, who made a good host against the odds.
Editors' Editor of the Year Award
The shortlist was announced today for the 2011 British Society of Magazine Editors' prestigious Editors' Editor of the Year Award. The shortlists for the other awards will be announced later this month and the winners will be revealed at the annual Awards Dinner at The London Hilton on Tuesday, 8 November 2011.
On the shortlist are:
Jules Barton-Breck, Editor, Essentials
Jason Cowley, Editor, New Statesman
Mark Ellen, Editor, The Word
Gill Hudson, Editor-in-Chief, Reader's Digest
"It is great to see such a strong and diverse list" commented BSME Chair Lisa Smosarski, Editor of Stylist Magazine.
There is a promise of a video from the night's proceedings but it has yet to appear. Hats off to yer man. http://www.bsme.com/
I genuinely quite enjoy Essentials
when Mrs Cues brings it on home.
So well done again to the amiable loonlike scubadiver who haunts our waking thoughts with his popular cultural musings.
Hurrah!
That's lovely news, congratulations!
*bakes celebratory cake*
Great news, great news...
...let there be joy unconfined, bottles of pop all round at Word towers and a brief interlude - at the very least - of celebratory Mahavishnu Orchestra music played at 11 on the office stereo!*
(* "Police in the Islington area were today called to a disturbance at the offices of popular culture magazine 'The Word', after complaints from a local mall that their soundtrack of Noddy Holder and Roy Wood festive favourites was being drowned out by 1970s fusion music - recorded by local noise prevention officers at 150 dB - with trade being adversely affected. 'Gor blimey, it's not as if you can dance to it, is it?' said greengrocer Wilfred Bliss. One nearby business, 'The Happy Herbal Head Shop' did, however, report a marked increase in sales of incense during the incident. Inspector Derek Serious of West London Crime Squad said, 'We can confirm that a tall man in a blue shirt is currently helping us with enquiries. Move along, now, move along - there's nothing to see...' ")
Superb!
If I may just add
a humble nosegay of fragrant felicitation to the cornucopia of praise heaped upon your kingly shoulders?
FX SATIN BREECHES RIPPING
As I said on Twitter last night
Congrats on the BSME (Blue Shirt Men's Edition) Award, Mr Ellen.
Are the reports
about JLS pouring a bottle of Evian over Eric Pickles in protest over the library cuts true?
Con...
... gratulations!
In fact...
...let's hear how Cliff would say that:
Very Well Done, Sir!
So pleased, I renewed my subscription! But do I get my copy of Chateau Revenge?
Well done Mark,
add a couple of gold stars to your report card. Trust you enjoyed a couple of cheeky pints in celebration.
Throws hat
... in air.
The topfulness of the hole is terrific.