Richard Longhurst -- freelance editor and writer

Mail me:    rlonghurst@richclickings.co.uk
Snail me:    Unit 2 Riverside Court, Riverside Road, Bath, BA2 3DZ, UK
Phone me:    01225 478991
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Portfolio

Daily Telegraph 1994 -- Present
Daily Telegraph Internet correspondent, writing the weekly Netlife column and contributing in-depth features and news stories focussing on consumer issues. I started covering the Internet and computing for The Electronic Telegraph when it was launched in 1994.

Free CDs are hits in auctions    Daily Telegraph    25 October 2001
Head back to Old Kent Road    Daily Telegraph    20 September 2001
Join fellow consumers in the Web critics' hot seat    Daily Telegraph    26 April 2001
Nice price, but it only comes in chartreuse    Daily Telegraph    1 March 2001


Evening Standard 1998 -- Present
Regular contributor to the IT@Standard section, covering consumer technology and Internet topics.

The long arm of the Net    London Evening Standard    13 November 2001
The worst rip-offs condemned    London Evening Standard    31 October 2001
The legal way to download    London Evening Standard    2 October 2001
Sex please, we're boffins    London Evening Standard    11 September 2001


Magazines 1991 -- Present
Regular contributor to Web User, Internet Advisor, Internet Works and PC Format. Irregular contributor to sundry other newspapers and contract magazines (Orange, BP, Easy Jet and Abbey National among others) on consumer and technology topics.

1998 - 1999     Editor, PC Format December
Managed a team of 14 editorial staff, liasing closely with production and advertising staff
Launched monthly DVD edition which was sold alongside double-CD edition
Celebrated PC Format issue 100 with a best-selling boxed edition
Took magazine sales back over 100,000 after a slump earlier in 1998

1994 - 1998     Editor, .net Magazine, Future Publishing
Established .net as the leading Internet magazine brand and best-selling UK Internet magazine.

1991 - 1994     Staff Writer, Games Editor, Deputy Editor, PC Format, Future Publishing


Online Ventures
Founder (March 2000) of shopping portal 2020Shops, rated first in a Sunday Times round-up of Internet shopping and highly rated by ComputerActive's Web Guide and Web User magazine. 2020Shops Ltd made a profit in its first year of trading (ending April 2001) on a turnover of approximately £55,000. I am variously the Chairman, CEO, Secretary and Finance Director.