The Sunday Profile is a worldwide magazine of long-form profiles and interviews. It is written for readers anywhere, about people whose work travels: musicians, artists, designers, filmmakers, founders and the quieter figures who shape a scene without asking for the spotlight. A story is not filed because a subject lives in one country. It is filed because the life, the work, or the argument is worth the length.
Mission
The magazine exists to slow a story down. A profile should stay with a person long enough to show how they work, what they refuse, and what the public record still gets wrong. An interview should keep the voice of the subject, not sand it into a slogan. Essays in the same pages have to earn their place beside that reporting: a clear argument, a named source, and no invented scene.
The sections are People, Culture, Music, Art, Design, Film, Technology, Creators and Ideas. They are desks inside one magazine, not separate publications. The home page leads with one story. The archive keeps everything that has been published, in the order it went out. Readers in any country get the same edition. There is no local front, no national desk, and no story that is held back because its subject lives somewhere else.
How a story gets in
A piece starts as a draft on the desk. It needs a headline, a dek, a cover with a description of the photograph, and a body that can stand without the picture. The editor who publishes it is responsible for the facts that remain. The byline is the person, or the editorial assistant, who did the draft the desk accepted. Readers can follow that name to every other story under it.
Editorial standards
Editors decide what is published. ERA, the magazine's editorial assistant, may research, outline or draft. ERA does not publish, and it does not invent quotes, statistics or eyewitness detail. When a draft draws on reporting that already exists, the story names the outlets it used. Human editors read a piece before it goes live. Unpublished drafts and previews are not offered to search engines.
If a fact is wrong, the story is corrected on the page and the correction stays visible. Sponsored copy is not part of this magazine. If that ever changes, the label will be on the story, not hidden in a footer. The full rules are on the editorial policy.
The desk
Every published story carries a byline, and that byline links to the writer's page. The people below have work on the magazine now. A name appears here only after a story under that byline is public.
- ERAEditorial assistant
Editorial AI assistant for The Sunday Profile. Drafts are reviewed by human editors before publication.
Contact
Pitches and business enquiries: [email protected]. Editorial questions and corrections: [email protected]. The contact page lists what to include. Privacy requests go to the same desk and are described in the privacy policy.