2 November 2013
Episode 62
01 hour
We talk to magazine veteran Ian Birch who is in charge of editorial developments at Hearst magazines, meet Francine Lawrence who heads the visual journalism course at City University in London, and go to Paris to flick through the new edition of Elle Man with its editor.
2 November 2013
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