Victor Keegan

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Victor Keegan (born 1940) is a British journalist and author focusing on economics and technology issues. Born in London, he attended Wimbledon College and Brasenose College, Oxford. After which, he spent most of his working life at ''The Guardian'' as reporter, financial correspondent, deputy financial editor, economics editor, business editor, duty editor, Chief Leader Writer, Assistant Editor and Online Editor.

Career

For 11 years Keegan was a member of the Scott Trust, owner of the Guardian Media Group. He formerly wrote a weekly column about the internet and personal technology (see link below), and contributed to both ''The Guardian''s website and its blog Comment is Free. He was curator of the "SLart Gallery" in the virtual world Second Life from 2008 to 2012. With his colleague Neil McIntosh he introduced ''The Guardian''s first blogs (Technology and Games).

In 2001 he started the first-ever text message poetry competition for ''The Guardian'' and in August 2003 he started ''kickAAS'' one of the first dedicated political blogs, campaigning to help developing countries by abolishing agriculture subsidies. He wrote a fortnightly column on economics and industry for more than 20 years, followed by a weekly column about consumer technology until his retirement, aged 70.
From 2008 to 2012 he was chair of a not-for-profit start-up, World Film Collective (WFC), which encourages young people in very poor countries to make and edit films on their mobile phones.
Since 2017 Keegan has been Chair of the Safer Parks Panel for St James's Park and the Green Park.

Keegan blogs extensively about London on LondonMyLondon.co.uk + OnLondon.co.uk, and on English and Welsh vineyards at victorkeegan.com and victorkeegan.wordpress.com
In 2010 he published two iPhone apps: City Poems, which links classic poems to the streets of London that inspired them using satellite links; and Geo Poems, which contains all of the poems in his first three books linked by geotagging to the people and places around the world that inspired them. A third app, released in 2011, uses geolocation to take a tour of Shakespeare's London. A fourth, Gems of London, geolocates places of historic interest in London. These apps are no longer available on later iPhones because of the need to recode them when Apple upgrades its operating system.

Keegan has written six books of poems: ''Crossing the Why'', ''Big Bang'', ''Remember to Forget'', “Alchemy of Age”, “London My London” and “Restrictive Memories". They are available on Kindle.
In January 2021 he published "Vic Keegan's Lost London" https://www.bookdepository.com/Lost-London-Vic-Keegan/9780954076276

Family

He is married to Rosie Keegan and has two sons, Dan and Chris. His older brother, William Keegan, used to be economics editor of ''The Observer'' and is still a columnist on that paper.

Bibliography

* ''The New Europe'' (Fourth Estate, 1993) co-edited with Martin Kettle.
* '' The Guardian Year, 1999'' (Fourth Estate, 1999); (editor)
* ''Crossing the Why'' (Shakespearesmonkey, 2001);
* ''Best Text Poems: The cream of the Guardian's text message poetry competitions'' (Adlibbed, 2006);
(editor)
* Big Bang, (Lulu.com) 2007; Poems about the start of life and onwards
* "Remember to Forget" Poems about early life and real life published at Lulu.com (2010);
Vic Keegan's Lost London https://www.bookdepository.com/Lost-London-Vic-Keegan/9780954076276

References

External links

"Guardian" columns
by Victor Keegan
Shakespearesmonkey
a billion-year project to randomly generate two lines of a poem (it doesn't work properly on all browsers)
Flickr photosChris Keegan
a 25 Nov 2008 article from ''The Telegraph''

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1940 births
Living people
British male journalists
The Guardian journalists