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David Hepworth
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David Hepworth (born 1950; Yorkshire) is a journalist and music writer responsible for the launch of many British magazines.
After working at the music magazines NME and Sounds, he joined the newly-launched Smash Hits magazine in 1979, and two years later became its editor. In 1983 he started Just Seventeen, a perennially popular magazine for teenage girls, and in 1984 the magazine Looks. Since then he has launched several further magazines in the entertainment field including Q (1985), More (1987), Empire (1988), Mojo (1997), Heat (1999), and Word (2003).
He is the only person to have won both the Periodical Publishers Association's writer of the year and editor of the year award, and in 2004 he released a book The Secret History of Entertainment.
In the early 1980s he had a short period as presenter of the BBC music show Old Grey Whistle Test.