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#164: Albert Read, managing director, Condé Nast Britain

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The Importance of Classics in Journalism

I was very attracted to the works of Homer and Virgil and these great epic poets. It served me very well albeit the pressure to do courses these days which have a more of a direct application to to work is more difficult for new generation. I started off writing that I moved into commissioning but then I found the business side of newspapers to be to be fascinating. So I left the express and I went to do an NBA agency ad which rounded off this education although I loved doing classics it was a fairly narrow education. But having the business education in the classIt was a very good way for me to to shift career to to rebrand myself and make myself somebody who was employable on

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