Welcome

This is the website of J Clive Matthews, a London-based writer, editor and online content consultant - it is under construction.

UACES-Reuters Reporting Europe Award

March 2008 update: J Clive Matthews made the five-person shortlist and received the Jury’s Commendation for the inaugural UACES-Reuters Reporting Europe Award alongside BBC World Affairs Correspondent Alan Little (the winner), the Financial Times‘ Berlin Bureau Chief Bertrand Beniot, The Economist’s Europe Editor John Peet, and the BBC’s Europe Editor Mark Mardell.

Anyway, hello there… Not the fanciest of front pages for someone who’s a bit of a whizz with the whole online journalism thing, true. I’ll sort it soon, honest. Meanwhile, here’s my CV and my rather prettier-looking (and award-nominated) blog - the reason most people have come here…

Other work

The Lord of the Rings: the films, the books, the radio series TLS Virgin Film: Tim Burton

I’m recently been working on everything from book reviews for the Times Literary Supplement to online editorial services for Eve magazine, editing books about Russian politics and UK health policy to writing comment pieces on Anglo-American relations for The Washington Post and Newsweek, conducting interviews for B2B magazines to writing travel articles and film criticism for everyone from BBC Worldwide to local newspapers, as well as editing the topical sections of the homepage of somewhat large ISP AOL UK and acting as an online editorial consultant to a web design agency and its clients - so haven’t had much time to finish this site off as yet…

A few other projects, past and present:

Blowing up Russia, by Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felstinsky Blog Digest 2007, ed. Justin McKeating Nixon: A Life, by Jonathan Aitken

Starburst Pocket Films Blog Crushguide

The Riches of Michelangelo, by Rab Hatfield 2005: Blogged, ed. Tim Worstall Silent Victims, by John Pring