Jack Schofield

Jack Schofield (30 October 1947 – 31 March 2020) was a British technology journalist. He wrote the Ask Jack column for The Guardian 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 The Darkroom Book.

He died on 31 March 2020 at the age of 72, following a heart attack on 27 March.

Career Schofield edited various photography magazines during the 1970s: Photo Technique, Film Making, You & Your Camera (a partwork), and Zoom as well as the journal of the Royal Photographic Society, The Photographic Journal.

In 1983, he started writing a weekly computer column in Futures Micro Guardian, from its first issue, in The Guardian.

Schofield also wrote on computing for Reuters and blogged for ZDNet. He produced a number of books on photography and on computing.

Never put data into a program unless you can see exactly how to get it out Data doesn't really exist unless you have two copies of it The easier it is for you to access your data, the easier it is for someone else to access your data The Hutchinson Dictionary of Computing, Multimedia, and the Internet. By Schofield, Wendy M. Grossman and David Goul. Oxford, UK: Helicon, 1996, 1997. .