Jane Bird
Jane Bird is a freelance journalist specialising in IT and telecoms for national newspapers, business and consumer publications. She spent seven years on The Sunday Times and is currently editor of VentureCast Executive Briefing, a monthly newsletter for the venture capital and private equity community published by Library House. She also contributes to the Financial Times.
Other titles that have published Jane’s work include: The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, Management Today, Revolution and Human Resources. She has made several radio and TV series about technology, and appeared on various news and magazine programmes.
Jane graduated from Hertford College, Oxford University, in 1979 with a BA(Hons) in English. In 1981, after working in the IT industry, she joined Computing weekly newspaper and two years later became editor of Personal Computer World, then Britain’s top PC magazine.
In 1984 she joined The Sunday Times as computer correspondent and moved on to become the paper’s first technology editor, covering a wide range of topics from cancer cures and cold fusion to folding bicycles and Britain’s first astronaut. She spent two years editing The Sunday Times Innovation page. Since the early 1990s she has been freelance.
Jane’s TV experience includes co-presenting a family-orientated computer series Chip-In for Granada, and monthly appearances on the BBC’s Breakfast. She presented weekly news reports on Radio 4’s Saturday afternoon show, The Chip Shop, hosted by Barry Norman, and on three series of the BBC World Service’s Computer World. She has also presented a number of business videos such as The Communications Programme, published by BT.
Jane wrote a management handbook on networking for 3Com, The Reuters Guide to Good Information Strategy, and the technology chapter of Wirefree Working published by Management Today. Clients for her copywriting services include Orange, AT&T, BT, PWC, Intel, Cable & Wireless, and Motorola. During the 1990s, she edited a dealer newsletter for Sun Microsystems and a customer magazine for Madge Networks.
Jane runs media training courses for professionals including bankers, lawyers, management consultants and technology experts. Previous clients include: Adobe, Akamai, AT&T; BT; Beat That Quote; British Osteopathic Association; Dell; Energis; Expedia; FT Information; Forrester Research; Fujitsu-Siemens; Hewlett-Packard(Germany, France & UK); Hitachi Data Systems(UK, Denmark, Israel); Hyperion; IBM; Intel(Germany, Poland, Scandinavia, Israel, Russia, UK); Logica; London Metropolitan University; Macromedia; ; Microsoft; Motorola; Nortel; Novell; Sony; Sony Ericsson and Vodafone. She also runs courses for professional training companies such as Electric Airwaves.
Other titles that have published Jane’s work include: The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, Management Today, Revolution and Human Resources. She has made several radio and TV series about technology, and appeared on various news and magazine programmes.Jane graduated from Hertford College, Oxford University, in 1979 with a BA(Hons) in English. In 1981, after working in the IT industry, she joined Computing weekly newspaper and two years later became editor of Personal Computer World, then Britain’s top PC magazine.In 1984 she joined The Sunday Times as computer correspondent and moved on to become the paper’s first technology editor, covering a wide range of topics from cancer cures and cold fusion to folding bicycles and Britain’s first astronaut. She spent two years editing The Sunday Times Innovation page. Since the early 1990s she has been freelance.Jane’s TV experience includes co-presenting a family-orientated computer series Chip-In for Granada, and monthly appearances on the BBC’s Breakfast. She presented weekly news reports on Radio 4’s Saturday afternoon show, The Chip Shop, hosted by Barry Norman, and on three series of the BBC World Service’s Computer World. She has also presented a number of business videos such as The Communications Programme, published by BT.Jane wrote a management handbook on networking for 3Com, The Reuters Guide to Good Information Strategy, and the technology chapter of Wirefree Working published by Management Today. Clients for her copywriting services include Orange, AT&T, BT, PWC, Intel, Cable & Wireless, and Motorola. During the 1990s, she edited a dealer newsletter for Sun Microsystems and a customer magazine for Madge Networks.Jane runs media training courses for professionals including bankers, lawyers, management consultants and technology experts. Previous clients include: Adobe, Akamai, AT&T; BT; Beat That Quote; British Osteopathic Association; Dell; Energis; Expedia; FT Information; Forrester Research; Fujitsu-Siemens; Hewlett-Packard(Germany, France & UK); Hitachi Data Systems(UK, Denmark, Israel); Hyperion; IBM; Intel(Germany, Poland, Scandinavia, Israel, Russia, UK); Logica; London Metropolitan University; Macromedia; ; Microsoft; Motorola; Nortel; Novell; Sony; Sony Ericsson and Vodafone. She also runs courses for professional training companies such as Electric Airwaves.