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Jack Schofield (journalist)

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and preceding that covered technology for the newspaper from 1983 to 2010. He edited photography and computing periodicals and produced a number of books on photography and on computing, including
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The Darkroom Book: the comprehensive step-by-step guide to processing your colour or black-and-white photographs.
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In 1983, he started writing a weekly computer column in Futures Micro Guardian, from its first issue, in
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The easier it is for you to access your data, the easier it is for someone else to access your data
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Nominet Presents The Story of the Web: Celebrating 25 years of the World Wide Web
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He died on 31 March 2020 at the age of 72, following a heart attack on 27 March.
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Never put data into a program unless you can see exactly how to get it out
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The Hutchinson Dictionary of Computing, Multimedia, and the Internet.
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Schofield edited various photography magazines during the 1970s:
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until 2010 when he switched to solely writing the newspaper's
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Data doesn't really exist unless you have two copies of it
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Schofield, Jack; Arthur, Charles (16 December 2009).
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Schofield's voice
The Guardian
partwork
Royal Photographic Society
The Guardian
Practical Computing
Reuters
ZDNet
Newnes
ISBN
9780600353997
Ziff Davis
ISBN
9780871651068
Amphoto
ISBN
9780817437572
Littlehampton Book Services
ISBN
978-0600384731
Collins
ISBN
978-0004116396
ISBN
9780817440022
ISBN
9780600332657
Blackwell
ISBN

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