Bad Idea (magazine)
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Bad Idea is a British general interest magazine based in London, England.
Overview[edit]
Bad Idea was founded in September 2006 by journalists Jack Roberts[1] and Daniel Stacey, both of whom were students at a magazine production class run by Clay Felker, the founder of New York Magazine, at the University of California.[2]
Bad Idea is known for its feature stories, which are often written in the first person. These have included insider accounts of life as a ‘honeytrapper’ – a private detective sent to ensnare potentially unfaithful husbands; an exposé of Dubai’s sex trade; an investigation into the growth of ‘Web 2.0’ sex dating sites; and a feature following Iraq's Kurds, as they search for DNA evidence of Saddam Hussein's ‘Anfal’ genocide.
In May 2008, Portico Books released Bad Idea – The Anthology, a paperback collection of writing from the magazine's first two years. The magazine was described in a small review of the book published in the Observer as having ‘…hacked itself a niche as a Granta for the MySpace generation’,[3] and the book received 4/5 stars in the Independent on Sunday, where it was said to be '... a great selection of work’.[4]
Contributors[edit]
- Jonas Bendiksen (photographer)
- Lowell Bergman (journalist)
- Billy Briggs (journalist)
- Ron Butlin (novelist)
- Sarah M. Broom (writer)
- Neal Fox (artist)
- Niven Govinden (novelist)
- Robert Greene (author)
- Xiaolu Guo (novelist)
- Jean Hannah Edelstein (journalist)
- Edward-Hogan Edward Hogan (novelist)
- Alyssa McDonald (journalist)
- Martyn McLaughlin (journalist)
- Sebastian Meyer (photographer)
- Mil Millington (novelist)
- Patrick Neate (novelist)
- Nicholas Royle (novelist)
- Sorious Samura (journalist)
- Joe Stretch (novelist/musician)
- Simon Wheatley (photographer)
References[edit]
- ^ "The fall and rise of magazines from print to digital". The Guardian. 7 March 2013. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
- ^ Observer article, 15 April 2007
- ^ Observer review, 1 June 2008
- ^ Independent on Sunday review, 15 June 2008