I've written for a lot of different people over the last twenty years - from Vogue and GQ to Pensions World. Here are some examples:
Director magazine
The Institute of Directors' monthly title is a fun outlet. Some of my work for them is online, including Big Brother doesn't always know best (a piece about snooping on staff emails), Ethics: fact or fairytale? (about companies that claim their products are "green") and Death of a salesman (on the joys - and terrors - of cold calling).
Compliance Week
I'm the London, and occasionally global, correspondent of Compliance Week, an excellent U.S magazine. I cover financial reporting, corporate governance, regulation - that sort of thing. The financial crisis has kept me very busy! My feature articles are all behind a pay subscription wall, but I also write a blog for them, which is free and here.
Internal Auditing
The editorial agency that I run with a former newspaper colleague publishes Internal Auditing, the monthly magazine of the Institute of Internal Auditors in the UK and Ireland. I also write an article for just about every edition of Internal Auditor, the confusingly similar sounding title published by the profession's global body. My agency also publishes the member magazine of the profession's European body. This probably means that I am the world's leading internal audit journalist - if only by default.
Columns
One of the most popular items in Internal Auditing magazine is my Editor's Letter. And it's not just me saying that. When I started to write these, I tried to say something opinionated and authoritative about the profession each month. I soon realised that could become boring, and in frustration wrote a piece that was mostly about wasps. This new approach proved very popular - and a lot more fun to write - so I stuck with it. Recent columns have covered everything from insightful Wham lyrics, a duff "Blitz experience", the joy of pessimism, hair cuts versus budget cuts, fraudulent drinking bills and the the Sistene Chapel - but always with an internal audit angle.
Technology and culture
I write three short pieces for each edition of New Economy magazine. My brief is wonderfully wide-ranging: to write in a rather light – possibly even amusing – way about technology and society. Trying to write something short, accessible yet substantive about an often very technical topic is a fun challenge. I've written about everything from interviewing a robot, to computers that spot liars, to scientists who are copying nature.
