Tuesday 27th July 2010

Meet the Media: An Evening with Conde Nast Digital

When: Tuesday 27th July 2010

Doors 6 pm. Talk will begin promptly at 6:30 pm

Where:  SANCTUM SOHO HOTEL, 20 Warwick Street, London, W1B 5NF

Sanctum will be offering a special set menu from £15.00 per person available to all London Fashion Network attendees after the event.

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Please note: We are a ticketless organisation. Paid places will be noted on the door.

We welcome Vogue.com Editor - Dolly Jones and GQ.com Editor - Andy Morris

Chaired by Ana Santi - Commissioning Editor - Drapers

• Dolly Jones – Editor - Vogue.com

Dolly Jones studied History of Art at Manchester University, before arriving at Vogue for three week’s work experience. Next came London’s University of the Arts  Periodical Journalism course, during which she was commissioned to interview "someone at the top of their game" – Alexandra Shulman kindly obliged – and she was later invited back to take up a six month internship as editorial assistant of the magazine. The "Writer" job at VOGUE.COM came up in January 2000. A decade later – after breaking news every day, working with the Conde Net UK team to develop and expand the site to its fullest potential including cover archives and VogueTV, and being named editor in 2005 – she is now responsible for an awarding-winning website that boasts 1.2 million unique users per month and is the most fashion-forward and regularly updated fashion destination online. Vogue.com won the People’s Voice Webby award in 2005 and Jones was named Magazine Website Editor of the Year in 2006. May 2008 saw a relaunch of the site comprising fashion celebrity blogs, an unprecedented magnifying tool and increased daily updates including fashion and beauty news and jewellery galleries. Jones now manages the Fashion Channel of Conde Net – comprising the fashion pages across all the sites in the portfolio – and continues to edit VOGUE.COM.

• Andy Morris - Editor - GQ.com

Andy Morris studied English at Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, where he also edited the student newspaper Cherwell. After graduating, he spent a year studying periodical journalism at London's City University. Following work placements at Dazed & Confused, Jack, NME and Mojo, he began freelancing for the style and music press, as well as working for the British Journal Of Photography. In 2004 he started as a work experience on the design desk at GQ. After time spent on both the picture and editorial desk, he was appointed features assistant on a six-month contract. He hasn't left since, having been promoted to features associate and then commissioning editor. Along the way he's interviewed everyone from Jack White to Chris Rock, including a trip to LA to visit the set of Judd Apatow's cancer comedy Funny People. Andy recently had his first cover interview published when he interviewed Russell Crowe on the set of Robin Hood. On the first of March, he was promoted to contributing editor and editor of GQ.com. GQ.com has on average 8,000,000 page impressions a month and 500,000 unique users.

• Jessica Bumpus - Fashion Features Editor - Vogue.com

Jessica graduated from the University of the Arts' London College of Fashion in 2006 with a 1st in Fashion Journalism and was runner-up for the First Word Journalism prize at Graduate Fashion Week.
After extensive work experience whilst at University at various publications including Vogue, Brides, Easy Living, Daily Telegraph, Ellegirl and her local paper Jessica started her career as a Fashion Assistant at Conde Nast Brides magazine.
After Conde Nast Brides Jessica spent time in 2007 freelancing at Conde Nast's online department, working as part of the launch team of Stylefinder.com before becoming a permanent member of the team and subsequently fashion features editor at VOGUE.COM.
As Fashion Features Editor at Vogue.com her job involves writing news, interviews, compiling shopping pages, attending events and the shows and looking out for new talent as well as compiling the Street Chic pages.