Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn is a freelance journalist based in London who works for newspapers such as The Sunday Times and The Times, as well as being an author and lecturer. He founded Magforum.com, the magazine website, in 2001. As a firm believer in having two careers, his day jobs have included being group editor at BBC Magazines/Redwood Publishing, where he launched and/or edited seven magazines and won many awards. He was a senior lecturer and head of the Watford School of Publishing at West Herts College, and director of degree and postgraduate programmes covering printing and publishing. For 15 years from 2000 he worked at the Financial Times where he became chief sub-editor on print, web and iPad editions. In parallel, he has also been a book editor, an external examiner; a visiting lecturer on MBA and degree programmes at universities including Reading, the London University of the Arts, Wolverhampton, Oxford Brookes, and Glion in Switzerland. He ran seminars and workshops on publishing, multimedia and the World Wide Web for the British Council in the UK and overseas. He has written several books published by companies such as the V&A, CUP and Addison-Wesley. He holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Engineering Science from the University of Warwick and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1988. He cites Alan Pipes, the graphics books writer, as a great inspiration early in his career. Among his claims to fame are cleaning the windows on Liverpool's Liver Buildings, hosting a BBC TV show with Carol Vorderman, reviewing Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach when it first came out, using email since 1982, having been given a 'nanosecond' by Grace Hopper, and publishing the first fractal programs in a mainstream computer magazine. As an employer, he has encouraged the talents of people as diverse as Private Eye's Victor Lewis-Smith, the nCipher co-founder and cryptography pioneer Alex van Someren, Framestore computer graphics founder Mike Milne, and David Deutsch, the father of quantum computing. He's just finished building an archive for his research collection of 5,000 magazines dating back to 1840.