about me
I’m a reporter for the Tech Europe blog on The Wall Street Journal.
I was previously a reporter on technology news site The Register.
The Register - ”biting the hand that feeds IT” – is the UK’s biggest tech site with 7.2 million readers a month.
In June 2012 I scooped the tech problems behind the RBS/Natwest banking software glitch that affected 17 million people, tracing the technical flaw behind the crash and linking it to wider practices at the bank. I wound up with an appearance on Sky News and Channel 4 news, and references in The Daily Mail, Sun and Telegraph.
I used to be the editor of tech website ShinyShiny. A scoop there that got picked up by New York Magazine, the Guardian and Gawker was about Apple forcing magazines to censor their fashion editorial for the iPad editions. I’ve also been technology editor on Anorak.co.uk, and have worked for Time Out Travel, the BBC homepage and Diva Magazine.
Freelance
I have written about technology for The Independent, The Evening Standard, Wired.co.uk.
And about other things for Jezebel, the Guardian, the New Statesman, Diva magazine, The Observer and Dazed and Confused.
Before all that, I wrote content about dogs for a social network for dog-owners. It was called “facedog” and has sadly been removed from the internet.
Awards
In 2009 I won The Independent’s Wyn Harness Young Feature Writer of the Year competition with this story
Other
I was the editor and co-founder of TheMostCake
I’ve been quoted in Vogue UK, Slate and in a post-apocalyptic description of east London by French magazine Les Inrockuptibles