About Rob Hinchcliffe

Rob Hinchcliffe is a journalist, blogger and writer based in London.

Currently Rob is a Community Manager at Yahoo! UK, before that he edited their news site, one of the most popular news destinations in Europe. Previously, he founded and edited the successful 'capital-centric' blog Londonist.com.

Under Rob's editorship Londonist was nominated for two Bloggies; appeared in Newsweek magazine; featured on CNN numerous times; and was covered by a variety of newspapers including The Guardian, The Times, and the Evening Standard.

In October 2006 Londonist placed eighth in a list of the UK's 50 most influential bloggers.

As well as online ventures Rob also writes for a number of traditional media titles such as Blueprint and Grafik. He's also a regular contributor to the daily e-magazine Urban Junkies and the weekly email culture magazine Flavorpill.

Rob recently contributed a piece of short fiction to the second edition of the LA-based literary journal Sweet Fancy Moses and last year co-wrote a collection of London miscellany entitled The London Collection. In the second half of 2007 Rob will be launching his latest blog project and embarking on another non-fiction book project. Check back here for more details soon.

Getting in touch

Feel free to get in touch by email: rob.hinchcliffe@gmail.com.

I can also be found on Google Talk as Rob.Hinchcliffe.

And on Skype as rob_hinchcliffe.