PEOPLE might take a dim view of journalism, but it has precipitated some pretty stellar careers in politics (Winston Churchill, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove), fiction (Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway and Helen Fielding) and in business, notably Natalie Massenet, who launched Net-a-Porter, and Chrissie Rucker, founder of The White Company. ‘You have to do your research and work to a deadline,’ says Rita Konig, whose early career included stints on The Telegraph Magazine, The Sunday Times, British Vogue and Conde Nast’s interiors magazine, Domino, for which she travelled the length and breadth of the US.
Alongside Ilse Crawford, who formerly edited Elle Decoration, and Faye Toogood, who began her career on The World of Interiors, working on magazines prepared her for a career in the wider world of design. Other formative…
