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United Kingdom

Wendover, UK

Since early 2023 I've been volunteering with Wendover News, a local monthly community newspaper. I do some writing, photography and layout/production, with a small team of other volunteers. Unlike many UK local magazines that are full of advertorial, we do have real news and coverage of local issues and events. The HS2 railway construction is currently.

Wendover, UK

I write magazine features, newsletters, white papers, reports, books and technical analyses of the latest developments in the printing, photographic and graphic arts sectors. Regular magazine customers include PrintWeek & Digital Printer, plus the FESPA website. Since 2018 I've written most of the Printweek "Best of British" series of in-depth profiles of.

Self-employed technical journalist and photographer. Most of my time was spent writing and editing Digital Printer, covering developments in digital print for commercial printers.

A monthly trade magazine for which I freelanced from issue 1 in 1994 to early 2007 when I was appointed editor. Over its first decade it progressed from a general-purpose computer graphics title to become a a specialist in wide format digital signage printers, but in my time it was broadened out again to cover all commercial digital print systems and.

Working for PrintWeek, Digit/Digital Arts, MacWorld UK, The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems, Electronic Imaging, Image Reports, PrePress News, British Journal of Photography, Professional Photographer, What Digital Camera, Demon Internet, Army recruitment magazine, plus numerous anonymous technical press releases and reports for PR & marketing.

After leaving XYZ I continued to act as a freelance technical contributor for Haymarket's weekly print magazine. I mainly handled pre-press and digital aspects for the Products of the Week reviews, plus extensive Ipex and drupa preview work, technical forecasts and overviews, historical articles, and various columns over the years.

A monthly trade magazine that I briefly freelance-edited, after a couple of years as a freelance contributor. When the publisher decided that payment was optional, I moved on.

I launched this for Haymarket and edited it for three years, with two other full-time writers and a designer. It was a pioneering monthly magazine that sought to explain the creative potential of the then-new computer technologies to designers, ad agencies and publishers. It showed real-world work, interviewed users and developers, and explained the.

I relaunched this monthly products-led trade magazine for Haymarket Publishing and within a year it had the highest ad sales of its sector. This led to greater things within two years, with the launch of XYZ magazine within Haymarket.

Trade magazine covering the then-new digital pre-press and composition technologies for the printing industry. This was my first full time editing role. Great people, but after 18 months I was poached back to Haymarket.

Central London

A short lived but lively and beautifully designed title concentrating on the innovative MS-DOS (but not PC-compatible) small business computers built in Scotland by Apricot. It was owned by VNU. I enjoyed working there but was then persuaded to go back into the print sector...

Teddington, UK

The start of an association with LithoWeek (later renamed PrintWeek) that's continued with some interruptions ever since. I left to learn more about computers, though not before covering the announcements of the Apple Macintosh and the first Desktop Publishing System, that went on to revolutionise pre-media and print during the next decade.

Fleet Street, London (1981-82) Tonbridge, Kent (1983)

My first job in journalism. Fortunately this was not only in Fleet Street when that still meant something, but I had a great editor, Roy Coxhead, who taught me how to write clearly and objectively. Sadly that's almost a defect in these days of instant-opinion social media.

Hazel Grove, Greater Manchester, UK

My first job out of print college, at a medium sized carton packaging printer. Unfortunately it coincided with a recession and so I was soon redundant again. But not before I'd suggested to the chief estimator that maybe a computer could be programmed to do the work that we did with calculators and grid-ruled paper. "Nay lad, you'd lose the personal.

Diploma In Printing

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