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'The Magic Roundabout', The Sunday Times Magazine
Sunday, November 06, 2011
Crisis? What crisis? These entrepreneurs are awash with investment, running niche technology businesses in a London area called the Silicon Roundabout. By James Silver.

It’s Friday evening in the Biscuit Building, a revamped warehouse in Shoreditch, east London. “MiniBar”, as it’s called, is a weekly meet-and-greet event for startup entrepreneurs, software developers and “angel” investors who never imagined they’d be faced with so many new best friends.

The Report: UK Extremism, BBC Radio 4
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Following the massacre in Norway and amid concerns over contacts between the killer and supporters of the English Defence League, the Government is reviewing its policing of right-wing terrorism.

James Silver examines far right extremism in the UK and reports from some areas with large Muslim populations where fears of 'Islamisation' are fuelling tensions between communities.

Genevieve Bell profile, WIRED magazine
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Genevieve Bell.
Director, Interaction & Experience Research, INTEL CORP.

For the past six months, Genevieve Bell has been sweet-talking Australians, Malays and Singaporeans into turning out the contents of their cars. “We lay tarpaulins on the street and empty their cars of everything we can find from the glove compartment, in between the seats, the door pockets, the boot, the whole nine yards, and talk to people about what they’re carrying around with them every day of their lives,” says the 43-year-old ‘Intel Fellow’, one of the company’s elite group of global technical leaders.

'Law and Order 2.0', Total Politics Magazine
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Following the Ministry of Justice’s controversial criminal justice reforms, James Silver examines the ramifications of favouring community orders over custodial sentences for repeat offenders

For nearly two decades, Steve was a one-man crime wave. A serial shoplifter and burglar, he notched up 157 convictions to feed a remorseless drug habit. He sits beside me in the corner of a Liverpool café, a slightly-built, softly-spoken man with a pinched, thin face. “I was shoplifting, robbing cars, doing burglaries,” he says. “I never really spent much time out of jail. A typical week was pretty chaotic, to be honest. You’d just go out and you’d steal. Then you’d sell what you’d got. You’d go and buy drugs. You’d take drugs. Then you’d go out and repeat it all over again.”

James Silver is a feature-writer, who specializes in the media, tech, advertising, business, cultural trends, news features and investigations. He regularly presents current affairs documentaries for BBC Radio 4, and has written more than 300 articles for a range of publications including The Sunday Times Magazine, The Guardian, WIRED magazine, The Times, The Spectator, Total Politics, The Independent, The Evening Standard, The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, The Observer, The Independent on Sunday, Press Gazette, Media Week, BBC News Online and Sky News Online. From 1995-2002, he worked for the BBC. He has presented nearly 100 documentaries and features for Radio 4, 5 Live, the World Service and American Radio Works. In 2000, he was part of the team which won the Sony Gold Award for News.

Interviewees in broadcast and print include: Kofi Annan, Sir Richard Branson, Norman Mailer, Boris Johnson, Alistair Darling, Lord Tebbit, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Christiane Amanpour, Carl Bernstein, Sir Max Hastings, Scott McClennan, Alan Dershowitz, Clive James, Ian Rankin, Irvine Welsh, Nick Denton, Mark Thompson, Robert Peston, Piers Morgan, Kelvin MacKenzie, Jeremy Kyle, Richard & Judy, Max Clifford and Jade Goody.

James has conducted media training sessions for leading media training companies Electric Airwaves and Media Mentor working with household name corporate clients in finance, tourism, aviation, technology, medicine, pharmaceuticals, entertainment, consumer and education.

Away from journalism, James is a screenwriter. He has written four screenplays: Monkey Slam, a comic drama now being developed by BBC TV, The Gawk Parade, a children's fantasy feature, Close To You, a comedy TV pilot set in the world of internet dating and Skivvy, a feature based on a true crime story. He is represented by Hania Elkington and Sean Gascoine at United Agents.

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