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About MARK
I am a freelance journalist (and ...<br />About MARK <br /><br /> <br /><br />I am a freelance journalist (and teacher) based in Oxford, UK, writing about technology, culture and the intersection between the two. I contribute to some of the biggest brands in the global media such as The Economist, Wired (UK), The Guardian, The Independent/ i and now BBC Future. I had my first piece in The FT Weekend last year.<br /><br />The stories I pitch are usually exclusives, original ideas or creative takes on existing stories. I never use press releases.<br /><br />I also write regularly for Warwick Business School’s Core magazine. I have two pieces waiting to come out in the next edition. WBS is one of the top business schools in the UK. I am finishing a popular technology book proposal under for an agent.<br /><br />A couple of years ago I was headhunted to write about technology for the New York based – and Frankfurt Book Fair owned – Publishing Perspectives. I now have a regular gig covering a wider beat that takes in ed-tech, marketing and management as well. I cover both the London and Frankfurt Book Fair for Publishing Perspectives.<br /><br />From time to time I give advice to business leaders on giving that tricky speech and appearing on panels, written copy for them, helped start-ups on how to tell their stories, and run workshops for small groups on topics like story telling or how-to-pitch.<br /><br />Want to see a sample of what I have written?<br /><br />Here are six to get you going<br /><br />Virtual Reality: The Next Frontier was one of three stories about tech in The FT Weekend Magazine – one by the amazing Douglas Coupland, another by the FT’s US editor and then mine! It shared the front cover with the Douglas Coupland story.<br />Copping a ‘Copter: Dealing with rogue drones for The Economist which was one of five stories flagged up on the front cover (second time in a month), number three story on Editor’s choice email and main double page feature of the Science and Technology section<br />Amazon is a more modest beast was the first of four previews of the Publishing for Digital Minds conference/ the London Book Fair that I wrote this year for Publishing Perspectives and made quite a stir in the world of publishing on the eve of the LBF.<br />Oxford aims for “number one” tech hub title was an exclusive feature for Wired.co.uk and included my first and exclusive interview with a UK government cabinet minister.<br />Medical robotics: Would you trust a robot with a scalpel? covered 3 colour pages in The Observer Tech Monthly and was originally commissioned at 2,500 words and ended up being 3,700 words long – an editor from a rival publication called it a mammoth piece of work.<br />How technology could spell the end of animal drug testing? was a double page colour feature in The Observer’s Discovery section and was liked almost 9000 times on Facebook.<br /><br />You can check out journalisted.com for a longer but still not complete list of what I have written – it excludes my work for the likes of The Times Educational Supplement (TES) and Mark Ellen’s The Word.<br /><br />If you want to get in touch with a story idea, a writing project or a training engagement then please do so via Twitter, LinkedIn or the comment section of this site.<br />DANIELBLOOMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05130493903696077379noreply@blogger.com