Succession: an Exeposé handover story

Charlie Gershinson Deputy Editor

AS Succession comes to its end and the start of each week gets a little bleaker, this writer’s lonely eyes turn from the child’s play of the melodramatic handover plans of Waystar Royco — the fictional media conglomerate — to the much more serious and pressing issue of handover week at the University of Exeter’s more successful equivalent, Exeposé The most significant of these challenges comes from how to follow up on the highly esteemed example of our own Logans Roy: Megan Ballantyne and Joshua Hughes.

Compared to their studious predecessors the incoming editorial team have taken a more creative approach to their new jobs. Instead of pulling all-nighters over the weekend to get the next issue fully proofed, the incoming editors and deputies, while also committed to their editorial craft, have a more hedonistic lifestyle consisting of playing constant netball games, vandalising Devon’s silky beaches and giving negronifuelled speeches at formal events. The stressful reality of their editorial roles nonetheless still hasn’t been lost on our new editors as they embark on a caffeineaddled haze to finish the issue you are reading right now. Our departing editors are also struggling to come to terms with leav- ing the Exeposé office in DH2 for the final time and entering the real world, calling numerous section editors their “number one boy” or the “eldest boy”, regardless of their gender, and more harshly referring to others as “eggs.”

Only time will tell how the new editorial team fare in managing the vast Exeposé newspaper empire. From this aspiring deputy, all there is left to say is: “I had an interest in politics from a very young age.”

When asked for comment on how handover week is proceeding, newly installed Editors-in-Chief Livvy Mason-Myhill and Anabel Costa-Ferreira said: “You’re supposed to be a deputy editor. Can you please stop pretending Succession is real life and do your job.”

Thought-provoking stuff there.