IN A NUTSHELL
I'm a UK-based journalist covering mobile entertainment, gaming, the music industry and consumer technology. I've been working as a journalist since 1998, and in recent years my focus has shifted towards online work for both websites and blogs.
CURRENT WORK
I currently work on a retainer for Steel Media, writing for its sites Pocket Gamer, PocketGamer.biz and Pocket Picks, while editing its bi-monthly (print) magazine. I also write a daily bulletin for Music Ally, the music industry consultancy, which focuses on the day's news in digital music. It's for paying subscribers, but a recent example is here.
I also freelance regularly for New Media Age (mainly on mobile topics), Mobile Media, and Mobile Choice magazine, while also taking on one-off features for other publications and sites.
PAST WORK
Until earlier this year, I was the editor-in-chief of Tech Digest, a consumer technology blog published by Shiny Media. Until recently, I also wrote the official blog for the Virtual Worlds Forum, a conference for the virtual worlds industry.
My last full-time job before going freelance was at Informa Telecoms & Media (2004-06), where I worked on mobile industry newsletters Mobile Games Analyst and Mobile Media, while also writing longer analystreports on mobile games and mobile gambling.
Before that, I was deputy editor at Mobile Choice magazine (2003-04), which is a monthly consumer-focused mag with mobile news, handset reviews and related features.
My previous job to that was at Future Publishing, where I started as features editor on CreateOnline magazine in 2000, covering the web design industry at the time of the first dotcom boom (and bust!). In 2002, I moved across to T3 magazine as features editor, where I covered gadgets and consumer technology.
Before this, I was staff writer at Official Dreamcast Magazine (1999-2000) writing news, features and reviews about Sega's console. My first job in journalism (if you discount the summer job Photoshopping breasts for Loaded magazine's website) was at Forme Communications from 1998 to 1999, working on a variety of trade magazines for digital media industries, including Video Age and Webspace.
EDUCATION
PMA Training postgraduate diploma in magazine journalism. A summer course that I can't recommend highly enough to anyone wanting to get into journalism.
University of East Anglia, degree in European Cultural Studies. Even the lecturers weren't that sure what it meant, but it did involve watching that eyeball-slitting French surrealist film at 9am the morning after the weekly student disco.
SKILLS
Writing, for both print and online
Specialist knowledge in gaming, mobile and consumer tech industries.
Blogging - have used all the major blogging platforms (Typepad, WordPress, Movable Type)
Contract work - B2B writing for firms including Vodafone, BT Vision and Playfish
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