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my name is Jeff White and I'm an investigative journalist covering technology.

We're quite geeky, my brother and I, you know, we had a ZX spectrum, which I've still got, I'm actually looking at the ZX spectrum at the moment.

So clearly we were a bit geeky as youngsters.

I just got interested in journalism,

I guess a little bit at university I did work

experienced a couple of newspapers and I'm not quite sure what it was I think like a lot of

people had the idea that journalism was quite glamorous it is and it isn't you know

maybe come on to that later but yeah there were some there were some glamorous bits I suppose some less glamorous bits but some the heart of it all is communication is basically taking stuff that's that's known about by a certain group of people and communicating it to the general public and just

being able to use words to craft a story to get something over to people and get and get their attention

and say look this is important you should read this I think that was what was the heart of my attraction to it.

I started doing, I started on local newspapers, you know is the classic I don't know whether you have these in the US to the same extent but the kind of local news you know cat stuck up tree kind of thing went on to magazines and then started doing bits of radio and then

television and I kind of stumbled into the technology beat. There was a reporter at the time

he was doing technology and he needed a

producer to work with him. Since television you often have a reporter and a

producers. The reporter is on camera and the producer works behind the scenes. And I

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