Bad Idea

For other uses, see Bad Idea (disambiguation).

Bad Idea is a British general interest magazine.

Overview

Bad Idea was founded in September 2006 by journalists Jack Roberts[1] and Daniel Stacey, both of whom were students at a magazine production class run by Clay Felker, the founder of New York Magazine, at the University of California.[2]

Bad Idea is known for its feature stories, which are often written in the first person. These have included insider accounts of life as a ‘honeytrapper’ – a private detective sent to ensnare potentially unfaithful husbands; an exposé of Dubai’s sex trade; an investigation into the growth of ‘Web 2.0’ sex dating sites; and a feature following Iraq's Kurds, as they search for DNA evidence of Saddam Hussein's ‘Anfal’ genocide.

In May 2008, Portico Books released Bad Idea – The Anthology, a paperback collection of writing from the magazine's first two years. The magazine was described in a small review of the book published in the Observer as having ‘…hacked itself a niche as a Granta for the MySpace generation’,[3] and the book received 4/5 stars in the Independent on Sunday, where it was said to be '… a great selection of work’.[4]

Contributors
  • Jonas Bendiksen (photographer)
  • Lowell Bergman (journalist)
  • Billy Briggs (journalist)
  • Ron Butlin (novelist)
  • Sarah M. Broom (writer)
  • Neal Fox (artist)
  • Niven Govinden (novelist)
  • Robert Greene (author)
  • Xiaolu Guo (novelist)
  • Jean Hannah Edelstein (journalist)
  • Edward-Hogan Edward Hogan (novelist)
  • Alyssa McDonald (journalist)
  • Martyn McLaughlin (journalist)
  • Sebastian Meyer (photographer)
  • Mil Millington (novelist)
  • Patrick Neate (novelist)
  • Nicholas Royle (novelist)
  • Sorious Samura (journalist)
  • Joe Stretch (novelist/musician)
  • Simon Wheatley (photographer)

References
  1. "The fall and rise of magazines from print to digital". The Guardian. 7 March 2013. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  2. Observer article, 15 April 2007
  3. Observer review, 1 June 2008
  4. Independent on Sunday review, 15 June 2008
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