A graduate of Newcastle University, where he studied politics, Ed’s career in journalism started with freelance shifts on local papers in West London before he took his first staff job on the lesser known business-to-business paper Heating and Ventilating News in 2000. In 2002, Ed joined The Architects’ Journal as a reporter, rising to news editor in 2004. In 2008, after a brief break running New Media Age, a weekly trade magazine, he was appointed to the news editorship of the TES, a national weekly newspaper for teachers and the wider education community. Since earlier this year he has run features and comment for the same title together with a roving online brief