Matthew Wall

Freelance journalist, author, digital media commentator & consultant

FREELANCE JOURNALIST SINCE 1996

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I have written news stories and features for most UK national newspapers, including:-

Financial Times; Times; Sunday Times; Guardian; Independent; Daily Mail; Mail on Sunday; as well as specialist magazines such as New Media Age.

I specialise in consumer internet, digital media, business & finance, and also write general interview features.

PUBLICATIONS

Six books...

* 'Financial Mail on Sunday’s Complete Guide to Investing Using the Internet'
* 'The Sunday Times Guide to the Internet'
* 'The Sunday Times Guide to Education Online'
* 'The Sunday Times Guide to Holidays Online'
* 'The Sunday Times Guide to Money Online'
* 'The Sunday Times Guide to Shopping Online'

...three business-to-business management reports:

* 'E-commerce in Fund Management'
* 'Trading Online'
* 'Online Retail Financial Services'

...and two consumer booklets:

* ‘Six Experiments that Changed the World’
* 'The Show Me The Money Guide to Sharedealing'

TELEVISION

Behind the camera...

* Associate producer on two series of ‘Mrs Cohen’s Money’, a personal finance programme for Channel 4

* Series consultant and factsheet author for ‘Serious Money’, a personal finance show for Channel 5

* Research and development for ‘Your Money & Your Life’, an observational documentary series for Channel 4

In front of camera...

* Internet expert for Channel Five News
* Budget pundit for Channel 5 Breakfast News
* Commentator for Bloomberg Money and European Business News cable channels
* Interviewee on Serious Money, Channel 5
* Expert interviewee for BBC’s 'Watchdog' programme

WORK PRE-1996

* Aug 1994-Oct 1996: Financial Correspondent, Financial Mail on Sunday

* Jul 1992-Aug 1994: award-winning editor for in-house civil service newspaper

* Oct 1990-Jul 1992: Writer/Researcher for the Financial & Economic Research Group of Consumers' Association (now Which?)

EDUCATION

* 1985-1989: Exeter College, Oxford (scholarship)
2.1 BA Hons, Classics (Greek, Latin, Philosophy)

* 1978-1985: St Francis Xavier’s College, Liverpool (3As at A-Level)

VOLUNTARY WORK

* Parent governor at St. Ursula's Convent School, Greenwich, sitting on the Finance Committee and the Policy & Curriculum Committee
* Chair, St. Ursula's Parents' Association
* Chair and website editor of the Friends of East Greenwich Pleasaunce community group
* Occasional volunteer helper for 'London Citizens' community action group
* Leader and musician for Children's Liturgy of the Word at Our Ladye Star of the Sea Parish in Greenwich