Nick Pigott

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Nick Pigott
Born Nicholas Hugh Pigott
1951
Barnby Moor, Nottinghamshire
Citizenship British
Genres

Newspaper Journalist, variously Editor of:

Steam Railway; Traction magazine; and The Railway Magazine
Notable award(s) IPC Media's Specialist Writer of the Year, 2002.

Nicholas Hugh "Nick" Pigott (born 1951) has been editor of The Railway Magazine, Britain's best-selling rail title, since 1994. He previously worked in Fleet Street as a journalist for the Daily Express.

Biography

Pigott was born in 1951 at Barnby Moor, Nottinghamshire.[1]

He trained on the Lincolnshire Standard, Nottingham Evening Post and Birmingham Post [2] before joining the Daily Express in 1975 and, after 12 years in Fleet Street, entered railway journalism. He was Editor of Steam Railway magazine,[3] a post held for four years, and then launch editor of Traction magazine, before moving to his present position as editor of The Railway Magazine in August 1994.[4]

In 2002, he was voted IPC Media's Specialist Writer of the Year and in 2008 was shortlisted in the national Editor of the Year awards held by the British Society of Magazine Editors.[citation needed] On 22 March 2007, The Railway Magazine won the top prize at IPC Media's Editorial Awards ceremony.[5] Competition for this award was limited to specialist titles within IPC Media selling up to 40,000 copies per month.[5] One week later, 29 March 2007, the magazine's marketforce team won the Gold Cup awarded by the Association of Circulation Executives.[5]

Steam Railway

The Railway Magazine was a long-running monthly railway magazine dating back to July 1897, but in 1988, whilst under the Editorship of John N. Slater (1970–1989), lost its position as "best-selling rail title".[3] That went to a younger competitor, Steam Railway magazine, which had been founded nine years earlier under the launch Editor David Wilcock.[3] Wilcock was followed as Editor by Nick Pigott.[3] By the early 1990s Steam Railway was outselling The Railway Magazine by upwards of 10,000 copies per month.[3] Slater's successor Peter Kelly (1989–1994) attempted to reduce the sales gap and that work was continued under his successor, Nick Pigott; who by then had moved over from Steam Railway.[3] In 2008, The Railway Magazine regained its position as Britain's best-selling rail title and has continued to increase its circulation ever since. Its current publisher is Mortons Media, which bought the title from IPC Media in August 2010.

Notes

  1. ↑ Semmens & Pigott 1997, p. 17.
  2. ↑ Johnson 1997, p. 14.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Pigott 2008, p. 3.
  4. ↑ Semmens & Pigott 1997, pp. 17–18.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Pigott 2007, p. 3.

References

  • Johnson, Andrew (4 April 1997). Inside The Railway Magazine. London: UK Press Gazette. 
  • Pigott, Nick (May 2007). "Editorial: Magazine of the Year: The RM wins top award". The Railway Magazine (London: IPC Media) 153 (1273). ISSN 0033-8923. 
  • Pigott, Nick (April 2008). "Editorial: We did it! After 20 years, The RM is once again ... The best-selling railway title in Great Britain". The Railway Magazine (London: IPC Media) 154 (1284). ISSN 0033-8923. 
  • Semmens, Peter (1996). A Century of Railways: through the pages of Railway Magazine and paintings from members of the Guild of Railway Artists. Sparkford: Oxford Publishing Company. ISBN 0-86093-535-3. 
  • Semmens, Peter; Pigott, Nick (July 1997). "100 Not Out! The Story of The Railway Magazine". In Pigott, Nick. The Railway Magazine (London: IPC Media) 143 (1155). ISSN 0033-8923. 


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