Neil McIntosh (born 16 February 1974 in

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'' newspaper. McIntosh was educated at

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and

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. He has an

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from the

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Business School. An early advocate of blogging in journalism, he introduced the Guardian's Online Blog with Jack Schofield and Victor Keegan in 2001, and later became assistant editor of Guardian Unlimited in 2004. He set up a network of weblogs for the Guardian, including

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, and later established audio and video services for the site. Later he was Managing Editor of

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. Previously, he worked for the ''

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Bibliography

* McIntosh, Neil (2002) "Cyber Crime". Heinemann. (). * As contributor, (2005) "2005: Blogged"

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''Guardian'' articles by Neil McIntosh''Completetosh'' personal blog by Neil McIntosh (defunct)
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