The Telegraph Road

Roger Highfield has been the science editor for the Daily Telegraph for over ten years. He’s also one of the judges on this year’s FameLab. The Null gets the scoop. 

NH - Roger, what got you interested in the media?
RH - For the first year of my doctorate all I did was prepare samples (Langmuir Blodgett films - which makes me a nanotechnologist) and write software. For the sake of my sanity I started to work on student radio and the university paper, Cherwell.

What was your background before you got into journalism?
I went straight from university to journalism. When I finished my doctorate I managed to get a job on a magazine called Pulse - nothing to do with vegetarians or soft porn but aimed at general practitioners.

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