Richard Tomkins
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Not to be confused with Richard Tompkins.
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Richard Tomkins is chief feature writer of the Financial Times, a position he has held since 2006. Previously he worked as a columnist writing on consumer culture, as consumer industries editor and as a correspondent in the newspaper's New York bureau, among other positions.
In 2003 he was named Business Journalist of the Year in the Business Journalist of the Year Awards[1] and in 2007 he was awarded the David Watt Prize for outstanding political journalism.
He attended King Edward's School in Birmingham and, after several jobs including a three-year apprenticeship with his local newspaper, the Walsall Observer, he joined the FT in 1983.
He is married and has three young children.
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- ^ PressGazette. "FT pair win business accolades". http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=22375§ioncode=1. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
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