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Jack Arthur Smith

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I was born, raised and schooled in Rugby, the market town birthplace of the game in Great Britain, before studying English lit. with creative writing at Hull University for three years.

During my second year I interned at the international gay men's lifestyle magazine GT (nee Gay Times) in London, resulting in monthly freelance work as the mag's sock puppet agony uncle, "Mr Sock", as well as collating and editing a confessions style column called (oddly enough) "Confessions".

After uni I moved …

What was your first job as a journalist?

Intern, duh.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

It can mean many things, but overall I suppose it means writing the truth regardless of what that truth might be.