Amy DuBois Barnett

If I Ruled the World (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It is 1999 in New York City where 20-something Nikki Rose has spent the last 3 years working her way up the chain at StyleList, a fashion magazine rivaled only by Vogue. As the only Black editor on staff, Nikki's never had it easy, but the constant microaggressions turn macro when Nikki pitches Tyisha, supermodel and host of "America's Next Cover Girl", for the cover of StyleList's January issue. Her Editor-in-Chief responds simply: "Black girls don't sell magazines." Determined to find a place for young Black women in the magazine world, Nikki hustles her way into a job offer as Editor-in-Chief at Sugar, a floundering hip hop music and lifestyle publication with untapped potential. She's faced with a difficult decision: say goodbye to her prestigious job (much to the chagrin of her academic parents and investment banker boyfriend) or bet on herself and enter an entirely new world of extreme wealth, decadence, and debauchery. She chooses herself. Now Nikki must deal with a whole new set of challenges as she fights to save Sugar, including facing off with its vindictive former Editor-in-Chief and winning over her skeptical staff, learning to navigate the urban music industry while staving off its influential bad boys and power players-and perhaps the most difficult, evading the Alonzo Griffin: her very married, very powerful ex-boyfriend, former boss, publishing powerhouse, and well-known womaniser, who is on a mission to take Nikki (and Sugar) down. As Nikki struggles to make her way in the media and music industries during one of the most dynamic eras in pop culture history, she needs to game the system to win. But what happens when winning means sacrificing everything you hold dear?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781398543676
• Artikelnr.: 74733420

Autorenporträt

An award-winning author and executive coach, Amy DuBois Barnett has held senior leadership roles at Paramount, Hearst, Disney, and Time Inc, and has also successfully grown several independently owned media brands. She is currently a senior advisor for the women's sports platform, Swerve, and the growth capital firm, Bravo Mondo. Barnett joined Bravo Mondo from Outside Interactive, Inc. where she oversaw the company's 16 outdoor sports and healthy living media brands and their digital video/television arm, Outside Studios, as their first-ever chief content officer. Formerly, Barnett was a senior vice president and general manager at Paramount's BET brand where she oversaw their digital and social platforms. Prior to Paramount, Barnett was executive vice president of digital and chief content officer at Entertainment Studios. In 2016, she led the development of ESPN's The Undefeated. Barnett has also won many prestigious awards and garnered national acclaim as the editor-in-chief of Ebony, Honey magazine, Teen People (where she became the first Black woman to run a major mainstream magazine in the country), and as deputy editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar. Barnett has a B.A. from Brown University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University. Currently residing in Los Angeles, she has lived in 12 cities on three continents and is fluent in French.