Press Gazette interviews Conor Michaels of NME

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Posted in music on June 22, 2005

NME "Barely three years after taking the helm at New Musical Express, editor Conor McNicholas has given the title a more tabloid feel and rejuvenated its readership. But, he tells Alyson Fixter, it hasn't been an easy ride

"I'VE NEVER been called a twat so many times in my life," says Conor McNicholas. "I've been painted as this bogeyman figure. But there's no grand conspiracy, there's nothing to hide."

These don't sound like the words of a man who's just won the industry's Editor of the Year award and been credited with turning around the fortunes of 53-year-old music weekly New Musical Express. But for the editor of a legendary music magazine like NME, there's a far more demanding, critical and, well, emotional audience to please than his fellow hacks."

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