Editor of Guardian Weekend magazine, Melissa Denes, recently won the BSME’s ‘editor’s editor’ award. Here, she recalls her favourite celebrity interviewees, and explains why readers love Blind Date
In recent years, Weekend has been named news supplement of the year at the Press Awards in 2015, and at the
British Society of Magazine Editors in 2015 and 2018. Last month, Melissa was voted the 2019 British Society of Magazine Editors “editors’ editor”, the society’s top award.
When did you join the Guardian? What had you done beforehand? How did you come to this role?