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Job Editor of Dispatched, tame geek for ArtsProfessional, IT journalist and writer

Who Do You Work For
Anyone who does interesting stuff. I generally like to get paid too.

Email bill@andfinally.com, or see http://www.andfinally.com/ for all the details

How long have you been doing this?
I?ve been a freelance writer for 5 years. I?ve been editing Dispatched for 4 weeks

What is Dispatched For?
Dispatched is the email newsletter that accompanies ArtsProfessional. It goes out fortnightly on Monday afternoons and reflects stuff I?ve read, heard about or been sent. It is very much my perspective on what?s going on, within limits of taste, decency and the defamation law, of course. And I try to be accurate in stating the facts, even if my interpretation of them differs from other people?s. At the moment it is still evolving into its final shape ? I?ll put more listings and snippets about people doing interesting stuff into it as they start sending it to me. So the first two issues were more London-centred and based on stuff which people had already heard of than I normally like. This balance will shift over the next few weeks.

What Did You Do Before?
Before Dispatched I was the manager of the Regional Arts Boards of England website at http://www.arts.org.uk/, and while there I wrote a weekly email newsletter called ?dispatches? which was quite popular until the RABs realised that I was saying things that did not conform to their corporate strategy. I stopped writing dispatches in July 2000. But now they are going to be abolished and I?ve got a new place to work, so I guess I should be sorry for them (that was an example of my humourous style, by the way, so don?t write in).

If you could have any job in the world, what would you like to have done?
Been an architect.

What is your career ambition?
Entertain those with a sense of perspective, annoy those without.

What do you find most difficult in your present post?
Deadlines. I?ve never been good at them. Ask Brian and Liz!

What do you enjoy most about your current job?
Working with the editors. Honest. And trying to reflect the way the arts and the funding system work and are perceived by real people rather than PR and communications departments.