Neil McIntosh (journalist)

Neil McIntosh (born 16 February 1974 in Glasgow, Scotland) [1] is a British journalist who is the Managing Editor[2] of BBC Online. Previously, he worked for the Wall Street Journal, as Editor of Europe.WSJ.com at the site's launch on 9 February 2009.[3] Prior to that, he was head of editorial development at Guardian Unlimited, The Guardian newspaper's website.

An early advocate of blogging in journalism, he was once dubbed Britain's ‘Godfather of Blog’ after introducing Online Blog to the Guardian, with Jack Schofield and Victor Keegan in 2001,[1] before being promoted to assistant editor of Guardian Unlimited in 2004. He set up a large network of weblogs for the Guardian, including Comment is free, and later established audio and video services for the site.[1]

McIntosh was educated at Dunoon Grammar School, Argyll and Napier University, Edinburgh, and lives in London. He has an MBA from the Open University Business School.

Bibliography
  • McIntosh, Neil (2002) "Cyber Crime". Heinemann. (ISBN 0-431-16144-5).
  • As contributor, (2005) "2005: Blogged" Friday (ISBN 0-9548318-3-7).
gollark: So I think it's not actually Turing-complete but interesting at least.
gollark: <@!330678593904443393> https://squiddev.github.io/ae-sat/
gollark: ```/tmp/ignore-me: In function ‘main’:/tmp/ignore-me:10:3: error: invalid preprocessing directive #! #!/bin/sh ^/tmp/ignore-me:11:1: error: ‘TMP1’ undeclared (first use in this function) TMP1=/tmp/ignore-me ^~~~/tmp/ignore-me:11:1: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in/tmp/ignore-me:11:6: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token TMP1=/tmp/ignore-me ^/tmp/ignore-me: In function ‘main’:/tmp/ignore-me:23:3: error: invalid preprocessing directive #! #!/usr/bin/env python3 ^/tmp/ignore-me:24:1: error: unknown type name ‘import’; did you mean ‘short’? import argparse ^~~~~~ short/tmp/ignore-me:25:1: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘import’ import subprocess ^~~~~~/tmp/ignore-me:34:13: warning: missing terminating " character thing = f""" ^/tmp/ignore-me:34:13: error: missing terminating " character/tmp/ignore-me: In function ‘main’:/tmp/ignore-me:43:3: error: ‘code’ undeclared (first use in this function) {code} ^~~~/tmp/ignore-me:43:7: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘}’ token {code} ^ ;/tmp/ignore-me: In function ‘main’:/tmp/ignore-me:45:4: warning: missing terminating " character """ ^/tmp/ignore-me:45:4: error: missing terminating " character/tmp/ignore-me:45:4: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘return’ """ ^ ; return thing ~~~~~~/tmp/ignore-me: In function ‘main’:/tmp/ignore-me:65:1: error: unknown type name ‘iuvusugdjuczwenvxaiexhuvojlciybswpjpsqlmkkiuzxsjslkkckukhfqomqfghfonictwwbsraiffwiykmzrjspdsxkluiezu’ iuvusugdjuczwenvxaiexhuvojlciybswpjpsqlmkkiuzxsjslkkckukhfqomqfghfonictwwbsraiffwiykmzrjspdsxkluiezu ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/tmp/ignore-me:66:10: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token COMPILER=/usr/bin/gcc ^/tmp/ignore-me:71:1: error: expected declaration or statement at end of input } ^```
gollark: I'll wrap the shellscript in a shellscript which unzips it. Brilliant.
gollark: Yeees...

References
  1. "Profile of McIntosh from Allmediascotland.com Archived 17 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine"
  2. "BBC - Neil McIntosh appointed Managing Editor, BBC Online and Red Button - Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  3. "Journalism.co.uk article on launch of europe.wsj.com Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine"


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