Jack Schofield (journalist)


Jack Schofield was a British technology journalist. He wrote the Ask Jack column for The Guardian and preceding that covered technology for the newspaper from 1983 to 2010. He edited photography and computing periodicals and produced a number of books on photography and on computing, including The Darkroom Book.
He died on 31 March 2020 at the age of 72, following a heart attack on 27 March.

Career

Schofield edited various photography magazines during the 1970s: Photo Technique, Film Making, You & Your Camera, and Zoom as well as the journal of the Royal Photographic Society, The Photographic Journal.
In 1983, he started writing a weekly computer column in Futures Micro Guardian, from its first issue, in The Guardian. He also became editor of the monthly Practical Computing in 1984. In September 1985 he joined The Guardian's staff to launch Computer Guardian, the newspaper's weekly computer supplement. He continued to cover technology for The Guardian until 2010 when he switched to solely writing the newspaper's Ask Jack column.
Schofield also wrote on computing for Reuters and blogged for ZDNet. He produced a number of books on photography and on computing.

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