Review of the Year 2020
AP’s Year
AP Editor Nigel Atherton reflects on a landmark year for AP
This time last year, as we were sending the 2019 Christmas issue to press and looking forward to what treats 2020 would have in store, none of us had the faintest idea of how our lives would all change so quickly. The year 2020 would have been a landmark year for AP even without the pandemic because after being, in effect, owned by the same company since the 1960s it was sold to a new owner in April – right in the middle of the first lockdown.
Our previous owner, IPC Media, was already one of Europe’s biggest publishers when it was bought by Time Warner in 2001 and became part of the world’s biggest media empire. Our £200 million HQ on London’s South Bank was a statement of its power and prestige. However, the company that made the trilogy, the films and , and published the USA’s biggest selling magazines, was never really going to be terribly interested in small specialist magazines like AP, aimed at UK hobbyists. In
