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Gopal appointed editor of Big Issue in the North |
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Friday, 20 July 2007 |
Business and political journalist, Kevin Gopal, has been confirmed as the Big Issue in the North’s new editor.
Gopal, 43, had been the acting editor of the title since the previous editor, Matt Baker, left to launch a social policy journal for the Manchester Business School earlier this year.
The magazine, which is sold by homeless people in towns and cities across the North West and Yorkshire, has an ABC audited circulation of 30,824 (’06 latest figs).
The company which publishes the title, the Big Life Company, is a social enterprise. It has recently relocated the Big Issue office back to its original home in Swan Street in Manchester.
Prior to joining the Big Issue, Gopal worked for a number of regional and national titles including a ten year spell as a sub editor with North West Business Insider where he also wrote a political column for five years.
 Gopal
From 1996 to 2002, he was an international correspondent with Pharmaceutical Executive, originating and writing monthly international news, analysis and comment for the US based monthly title.
He has also written for the Investor’s Chronicle, Guardian Weekly, Real Business and Social Enterprise and has produced newsletters and magazines for the North West Regional Assembly, Manchester Business School, Yorkshire Forward and the University of Bolton.
Following University, he started his career as a reporter and assistant editor of SiYu, the UK’s first Chinese bilingual colour magazine, which was based in Manchester.
He told How-Do that he was “looking forward to maintaining and improving the quality of the magazine. And to ensure it remains a voice for the marginalized while entertaining a wider audience. I am also keen that people want to read the magazine, as well as support it.”
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