Alex Wood
| Alex Wood | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | British |
| 💼 Occupation | Journalist |
| Known for | Tech City News, The Memo |
| 🌐 Website | alexwood |
Alex Wood is a London-based British journalist, a former editor of Tech City News and the founder of the news site, The Memo.[1][2][3]
Career[edit]
Wood launched Tech City News in 2013[4] which was picked up at Lovie Awards as the News Website of the Year in the same year. The website had notably won against FT and The Huffington Post.[5]
Wood quit his job as the editor of the Tech City News in 2015 and founded the tech news website The Memo upon realizing gaps in the way media platforms did their job.[1][6][3][7]
In late 2016, The Memo received a £280,000 investment. The site has been awarded four media awards including Best Specialist Site for Journalism at the Online Media Awards.[8] According to Talking Media, Wood's venture is a conceptually a cross between Wired and The Economist.[9]
Alex Wood has written for and appeared on most mainstream print and television media such as CNN,[10] CityAM,[6] Medium.com,[11] and been a judge of Forbes 30 under 30 awards[12] among others.[13][8][14][9][3]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Memo, The Entrepreneurs 303 - Radio". Monocle.
- ↑ "Alex Wood". the Guardian.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "The Memo to cover 'at a glance' why tech news matters". journalism.co.uk. 1 May 2015.
- ↑ "How Tech City News aims to 'spice up' technology journalism". journalism.co.uk. 31 January 2013.
- ↑ "Tech City News is top news website at The Lovie Awards". journalism.co.uk. 15 October 2013.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Barber, Lynsey (12 December 2016). "The Memo proves investors still like media startups, with six-digit funding". cityam.com.
- ↑ "Search". www.journalism.co.uk.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 http://startups.co.uk/the-memo-secures-280000-investment-to-make-future-more-human/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "The Memo launches, new tech site aims to be cross between Wired and The Economist - Talking New MediaTalking New Media - The digital publishing website". www.talkingnewmedia.com.
- ↑ "Marking 40 years of Apple - CNN Video". cnn.com.
- ↑ Wood, Alex (11 March 2015). "Introducing The Memo". medium.com.
- ↑ merrileebarton. "Judges: Hala Gorani, Heribert Prantl, Alex Wood - pg.31". Forbes.
- ↑ "The Memo to expand to US after £280,000 cash boost – Press Gazette". www.pressgazette.co.uk.
- ↑ TheMediaBriefing. "TheMediaBriefing podcast: The Memo's Alex Wood on expansion and editorial voice". www.themediabriefing.com.
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