Thornton Leigh Hunt 1860s. Hunt was also editor of "The Spectator" from around 1859 to January 1861. James Buchanan was at that time President of the United States and was attempting to counter civil war over the issue of slavery, mostly by adopting a vacillatory position. Two Americans based in London - a businessman called John McHenry and an Assistant Secretary to ambassador George M. Dallas, called Benjamin Moran - determined to use the magazine as a counter to the generally anti-Buchanan position of the British press. Hunt had assisted Robert Stephen Rintoul at "The Spectator" and appears to have stayed on after
Begum (magazine) a founding editor. In 1950, the publication base shifted to Dhaka. Nasiruddin's daughter, Nurjahan Begum, joined as a journalist and editor; making her as the first Bangladeshi female journalist. Early women writers of the magazine included Razia Khatun, Shamsunnahar Mahmud, Selina Panni and Protibha Ganguly. Writer Selina Hossain was involved with "Begum" during the 1960s. Initially published weekly, "Begum" runs as a monthly magazine. As of May 2016, Nurjahan Begum's elder daughter Flora Nasrin Khan is in-charge of the operations. An excerpt from Begum Magazine, published on March 28, 1948: Whenever we talk about women claiming their rightful place in