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Simon Hacker

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(He/Him)
Cotswolds
Covers:  Travel, culture, arts, automotive, sustainability, rewilding, business, non-Prem football.
Doesn't Cover: Forex, celeb froth, gambling, crypto wibble.

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Simon Hacker’s Biography

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Writer with experience from local to national press (The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Glos Gazette, Barry and District News, Penarth Times). Road tester for Diesel&EcoCar magazine, some TV and radio in between. Fiction author, dad, vegan, EV evangelist, failing in management of several pets and my aspirations for Forest Green Rovers.

What was your first job as a journalist?

Stroud News and Journal, for one day, until head office told me to go to the Dursley Gazette and thereafter the Sodbury and Yate Gazette.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, my first months of indenture as a trainee journalist, sitting in a room full of fag smoke.

How is social media changing news?

It's the lazy writer's dream. Punters are circumspect about saying anything on the street but tell you what they had for breakfast online