Tortoise is the next similar venture to be launched: a self-styled “slow news” operation established by the former Times editor and BBC News director James Harding, and staffed by experienced journalists. “A cow, who like our target readers, tends to avoid herds and behaves in unmissable ways as a result.” The post was later deleted.
“Today I’m unveiling the icon,” Montgomerie wrote proudly in July 2017. According to its website, UnHerd employs seven staff.Īmong journalists, UnHerd is still known derisively as “the cow site” in reference to its esoteric logo. But three of its directors have resigned since 2017, including Montgomerie himself, who left the site last September without explanation. It aspired to hire 15 full-time journalists and pays writers well, at £1 a word. He is the chairman of one of Europe’s biggest hedge-fund groups, Marshall Wace, and chair of the Ark chain of academy schools.
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