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Blackbird Leys girl starts London magazine
29 September
FORMER Leys News community journalist, Kohinoor
Sahota, 25, from Blackbird Leys, has won backing from
the Prince’s Trust Enterprise Scheme to launch a new
magazine for London students.
Called The Book, the magazine will launch this week.
Since graduating fromUniversity College London,Kohinoor has interned for a dozen prestigious publications
including the Financial Times and Vogue, worked for Time
Out London, and written freelance articles for The Times, The Guardian and City AM.
Kohinoor said: “Despite all my work experience, with so many graduates looking for work I still couldn’t find
a full time job, so I have created a role for myself, and potentially many other young people by launching a glossy entertainment and lifestyle bi-monthly called The Book. Eighteen–25 year olds often get a negative representation
in popular media, but The Book is written by young people, for young people. It engages with the good and bad, and is not afraid to feature an ethnic minority on the cover and address provocative issues.
“It also embraces the new digitally minded generation with reviews on music videos and downloads rather than albums, blogs as well as books, and street art more than exhibitions.”
In addition to 20 pages of reviews on music, film, stage, art, gadgets, and blogs, highlights of the first issue include stories such as Our wild poker weekend...with X-Factor judge Kelly Rowland, NUS President Liam Burns asks: at up to £135 a lecture, is university still worth it? Hoodies, the history behind the hysteria: how they went from medieval monks to grime star Chimpunk, and a photo-story on the Cosplay craze, in which young fans dress up as their favourite comic-book characters.