Meet The Editors

Editor

Jason Jenkins first got into technology in the 80s, spending hours bashing the rubber keys on his beloved Sinclair Spectrum to oblivion in Daley Thompson’s Decathlon. He has been writing about technology since 1999 and has tested virtually every technology product under the sun in the process, from hi-def TVs to mobile phones and MP3 players, via talking monkey heads and singing robots. He was once thrown out of Regent's Park for testing the very first Segway to arrive in the UK, which was a shame as he was having the time of his life. If you look hard enough, you’ll occasionally see him pop up in a newspaper, on telly or on the radio, sounding off on the latest techie news stories.

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Senior Editor, News and Features

Nate Lanxon will talk to you about almost anything, but, for best results, you should talk to him about technology. Any technology. From computers to mobiles, and hard drives to headphones, he has something to argue about. Having previously been CNET UK's Digital Music Editor, it will come as no surprise to learn he spends about 600,000 seconds a week listening to music (mostly extreme metal), plays the drums and piano, and goes to dark, scary music venues. He enjoys popular-science books, unfathomably obscure Japanese animation and believes that, once you've had Mac, you don't go back.

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Editor, Cars and Computing

Rory Reid knows computers inside out. He began his career playing games for a living, then spent several years writing for the country's biggest-selling and longest-running computer magazines before moving to on-line journalism. He first caught the silicon bug at the age of eight when, bored with opening old radios with his mum's screwdriver, he dissected his cousin's Sinclair Spectrum. Astonished by its shiny circuitry, Rory knew he could only find true happiness when elbow-deep inside a PC. His favourite gadget is his mobile phone, and when he's not avoiding calls from family members to fix their computers, he's travelling to technology exhibitions the world over in search of the next IT thrill.

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Editor, News and Features

Rich discovered photography on a work-experience course and hasn't looked back since -- or at least not since the digital age removed all the hard work. When he's not writing about cameras and other technology, he's busy seeing how many Firefox extensions he can fit on his MacBook before it starts to cry, or sorting his comic collection into alphabetical order. You may also find him spilling beer on his shoes at grotty gigs, and wondering if now would be a good time to write that screenplay. In the time it has taken you to read this, Rich has made at least three Twitter posts.

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Editor, Home Cinema and Community

Ian Morris has been on the Internet for so long he is frequently mistaken for part of the furniture. He is passionate about technology, a love that began when, during middle school, he took a rotary dial telephone apart. From then on no electrical item was safe from his attempts to 'fix' it, and it wasn't long before he realised that taking things apart generally resulted in their destruction. Ian's long-running obsession with televisions began in the heady days of cathode ray tubes and VHS. Now he is perched on the edge of his seat waiting to see the outcome of the latest format wars, including plasma versus LCD and HD DVD versus Blu-ray skirmishes.

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Reviewer, Mobile Phones

Flora got her first wireless phone when they used microwaves. She's been a gamer all her life, getting numb thumbs from playing Battle Tanks on her Mattel Intellivision, and remembers when modems made that 'sqee-oo' noise. Previously, she worked on videogames, streaming media and software development, and she has a Master's degree in writing about science-y stuff. When she's not on the phone or writing grammatically correct text messages, she's getting lost on her bicycle in places with no network coverage. She also enjoys trying to make her mobile do things it wasn't intended to, like control her TV and make popcorn.

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Chief Sub-editor

Nick Hide spends his days correcting other people's stupid errors, an occupation he finds extremely satisfying. He is also in charge of selecting stories for CNET UK's News page, which he hopes to turn into a full-blown Crazy Robot Stories site any day now. Nick occasionally contributes to Crave, usually writing about whichever computer game has compelled him to forgo all forms of human contact that week. In a former life, he edited listings for the Radio Times, where he lived in mortal fear of misspelling the title of the popular food show Ainsley's Big Cook Out.

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Sub-editor

Charles was first drawn to technology by the splendour of the Commodore 64. He now spends his time polishing up technology articles before publication and occasionally wreaking unintentional havoc upon them. He is both inordinately proud and extremely ashamed of having referred to mankind's most ambitious scientific experiment as the 'Large Hardon Collider' in a published article -- potentially one of the worst typos in history. When not attempting to live that down, he can often be found wrestling with the intricacies of Japanese grammar.