How Welsh Magazines Could Thrive

Editorial

Emily Trahair

There are not many topics I’m fearful of writing about. Luckily, Planet has a number of safeguards around freedom of speech. But however robust safeguards may be, most editors will have at least one issue that they feel ethically compelled to cover, whose presence haunts and hovers over their treatment of other topics, Jiminy Cricket-style; and yet the thought of actually publishing something on this subject would have their heart pounding, and in the middle of the night fumbling around (historically) for their fag packet or, perhaps more likely nowadays, their meditation app. For myself, chief among those topics is one that seems slightly pathetic: not some international intrigue, rather the conditions under which magazines in Wales are funded.

About the author

Emily Trahair is Editor of Planet.