Guy Kewney

Guy Johan Kewney (30 April 1946 – 8 April 2010) was a British journalist, regarded by some as the first UK technology journalist.

Early life Kewney's original goal was to become a civil engineer, but he did not complete his university course. In 1965, he started work as a programmer for English Electric LEO Marconi, on the world's first business computer. He soon realised he was not cut out to be a programmer, so decided to switch to his other passion, writing.

Career Kewney was a personal computing pundit, starting with Personal Computer World (PCW), writing a monthly column for the magazine from its launch in 1978 until its closure in June 2009. While working for IPC Magazines at Dorset House in Stamford Street on Electronics Weekly in the late 1970s, Kewney worked with another influential UK technology journalist, Tim Palmer, who went on to found the daily newsletter Computergram International in 1984.

When PCW's circulation was at its peak, Kewney was widely regarded as one of the UK's most influential writers and broadcasters on microcomputing technology, However, according to a blog post by Kewney, the two had since met.

Death Kewney was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2009, which was found to have spread to the liver, and wrote about it in his blog, The Hunky Mousehole. He died on 8 April 2010.