Hi, I'm Bryan Betts, and I am a UK-based freelance journalist specialising in business and technology. Most of my time is currently taken up by Engineering & Technology, the magazine of the IET. I edit the Manufacturing section.
Other places where you might recently have read my work include Techworld (and various other IDG titles as a result), SearchStorage.co.UK, eWEEK Europe, The H, ITPRO, SNS UK and The Review.
In the last few years I've also written for The Register, IT Week, Computer Weekly, Computing, CeBIT News, Computeractive, PC Support Advisor, PC Pro, Channel 2000, AOL UK, e-Doc, The Engineer, E-Systems & Networks (ESN), SmartCommerce Executive, Mobile Choice, London Drinker, What's Brewing and The Guardian, among others. I've written for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual publications.
Many of my stories are online, so if you are looking for clippings or anything specific, please try a Google or an Ask on my name. (I am not the guitar-player with the MySpace page, nor am I the SAP programmer who posts on one or two of the SAP forums. I am quite a few of the others who will turn up in the search, however!)
I've also written various reports and case studies for other folks, and taken part in radio programmes for BBC World Service, BBC7 and BFBS. I have TV experience from other areas of life, this includes appearances on BBC1, BBC2, Channel4, History Channel, Bravo, Discovery Channel and UKTV Food.
Topics that I've covered include:
A short CV: I have been freelance since the start of 1994. Until the end of '93, I worked for Dataquest as editor of the European Monitor and four other newsletters, and as a writer on special reports. Before that I was research editor at MicroScope, the weekly paper for the computer trade, and prior to that I was deputy editor at DEC User magazine which was interesting, but we didn't get as many toys to play with!
I am an NUJ member and I'm NCTJ-trained (National Council for the Training of Journalists), although I never got around to collecting the bit of paper to prove it. My degrees (a B.Sc. and a Masters in Engineering Science) are from Warwick University. I also hold a City & Guilds 7407 stage 1 qualification in further education teaching.
Telephone: 020 8580 9725 (with voice-mail) or 07753 863 242 - please do try the former before you try the latter. I'd prefer given the choice. Fax is feasible, but by appointment only and not on the numbers above.
I also help moderate Fleet Street Forum, a mailing list for UK media professionals - to read the messages on our mailing list click here, and to request list membership go here.
If you're looking for a journalist and I don't fit the bill, here
are some colleagues to investigate instead:
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John
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David
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Ian
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Russ
Swan science and engineering specialist
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