CC receiving commendation at MJA Awards
ABOUT ME: As a modern languages graduate, I started out my journalistic career with BBC Local Radio in the UK. Transferring to magazines at AGB and VNU (Senior Writer, 'Infomatics') in the early to mid 1980s, I then spent five years at EMAP and its flagship consumer computer title, 'Which Computer?'.
I edited the respected IT monthly (the style and content of which many of today's business and computer, and consumer, publications have copied) for three years, and won a number of editorial and design awards (I was twice nominated for 'Computer Journalist Of The Year'). I also chaired the magazine's series of 'Management Conferences'.
From 1984-1997 I was also a regular contributor to The Daily Telegraph 'Special Reports' and The Times 'Interface' sections, covering many of the major events that have shaped today's technology business, and explaining how business can best exploit the tools at its disposal.
I possess a considerable knowledge of the decision support, executive information systems (EIS), business intelligence (BI) and on line analytical processing (OLAP), the so-called 'enterprise intelligence', market and its players. I was one of the first British journalists to cover the emergence of EIS and BI, and the first to report on the significance of OLAP, data warehousing and knowledge management in Europe.
Until the merger of Sky and British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) in November 1990, and following a period as Editor/Producer with the Business Television Corporation (BTC — part of HTV), I was also Editor and Anchorman of BSB's first business television service — 'The Computer Channel'. After an MBO in June 1991, I became Editorial Director of a new Computer Channel which produced up-to-date training programmes for business professionals in the twin world of IT and telecommunications.
Having edited many books over the years, I finally wrote my first tome on Formula One motor racing in 2003 (hardback) and 2004 (paperback). To my complete surprise and obvious pleasure, it was voted The Sunday Express Non-Fiction Book of the Week.
In July 2005 my health/medical writing was highly commended by the Medical Journalists' Association, and I received an award 'for excellence in medical journalism'.
