James Snodgrass | Journalist

WELCOME

If you've been here before you might notice that things are a little sparse. After 11 years on the web, six of them at this domain name, the site had started to get rather unwieldy. So I've simplified things rather. If you want to contact me, click on the phone. If you fancy looking at a few photographs, click on the orange thing. And that's about it. I no longer keep a portfolio online because it takes too long to maintain and I'm better at writing than I am at operating flatbed scanners.

ABOUT ME

I'm a 35-year old Lancastrian based in the southern seaside town of Brighton. I mainly write for magazines, but I am also the Formula One correspondent for CNN.com. After undergraduate studies in philosophy and postgraduate studies in playwriting, I opted to become a journalist (if I recall there was some biometric testing involved which suggested my options were either journalism or tyrannical dictatorship; luckily for the world I picked the former). After some initial mucking-around I started to take the trade seriously and enrolled in City University's postgraduate journalism training.

Since then I have edited a business to business magazine (MultiMedia), was senior writer on the short-lived BBC Tomorrow's World magazine and deputy editor of the men's gadget title Stuff before turning freelance.

I have written for consumer magazines including Top Gear, NME, Top of the Pops, FHM and Focus. And I have written for countless customer magazines and business to business publications (not to mention corporate copywriting).

And I've also had some "miscellaneous" activities including crossword compilation, television and radio punditry and voicing a character on the Channel Five animated series "Birdbath".

In 2005 I took a break from journalism to try my hand at publishing and have concluded that publishers are daring, reckless or both. So, with the dawn of 2007 I'm back to doing what I do best: writing.

I specialise in technology, popular culture (particularly music) and motoring but I have turned my hand to many other areas. The only thing I don't touch is (non-motor-) sport as my knowledge in that area is shocking – as is my ability – as anybody who has ever seen me near a football, dart or pool cue can testify.

James Snodgrass, Brighton, April 2007

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