Victor Keegan

Victor Keegan (born 1940) is a British journalist and author focusing on economics and technology issues. Born in London, he attended Wimbledon College and then spent most of his working life at The Guardian as reporter, financial correspondent, deputy financial editor, economics editor, business editor, duty editor, Chief Leader Writer, Assistant Editor and Online Editor.

For 11 years he was a member of the Scott Trust, owner of the Guardian Media Group. He formerly wrote a weekly column on the internet and personal technology (see link below) and contributed to the Guardian's website and "Comment is Free" blog. He was curator of the "SLart Gallery" in the virtual world Second Life from 2008 to 2012.

With his colleague Neil McIntosh, he introduced The Guardian's first blogs (Technology and Games).

In 2001 he started the first ever text message poetry competition for The Guardian and in August 2003, kickAAS one of the first dedicated political blogs aimed at helping developing countries by abolishing agriculture subsidies. He wrote a fortnightly column on economics and industry for over 20 years followed by a weekly column on consumer technology until his retirement, aged 70.

From 2008 to 2012 he was chair of a not-for-profit start up World Film Collective (WFC) which encourages youngsters in very poor countries to make and edit films with their mobiles. From 2017 he has been chair of the Safer Parks Panel for St James's Park and The Green Park

He blogs extensively about London on LondonMyLondon.co.uk + OnLondon.co.uk and on English and Welsh vineyards at victorkeegan.com and victorkeegan.wordpress.com In 2010, he published two iPhone apps: City Poems which links classic poems to the streets of London that inspired them using satellite links, and Geo Poems, which contains all of the poems in his first three books linked by geo-tagging to the people and places around the world that inspired them. A third app released in 2011 uses the phone's geo-location feature to take a tour of Shakespeare's London. A fourth, Gems of London, geo-locates places of historic interest in London. They are no longer available on later iPhones because of the need to recode them when Apple upgrades its operating system.

He has written six books of poetry (Crossing the Why, Big Bang, Remember to Forget, “Alchemy of Age”, “London My London”, and “Restrictive Memories which are available on Kindle. {https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=Victor+keegan&ref=nb_sb_noss_2}

Family

He is married to Rosie Keegan and has two sons Dan and Chris. His brother, William, was economics editor of The Observer.

Bibliography

• The New Europe (Fourth Estate, 1993) co-edited with Martin Kettle.
• The Guardian Year, 1999 (Fourth Estate, 1999); ISBN 1-84115-231-5 (editor)
• Crossing the Why (Shakespearesmonkey, 2001); ISBN 0-9540762-0-6
• Best Text Poems: The cream of the Guardian's text message poetry competitions (Adlibbed, 2006); ISBN 1-897312-02-4 (editor)
• Big Bang, (Lulu.com) 2007; ISBN 0-9540762-1-4 Poems about the start of life and onwards
• "Remember to Forget" Poems about early life and real life published at Lulu.com (2010); ISBN 978-0-9540762-2-1

External links

• "'victorkeegan.com
• "Guardian" columns by Victor Keegan
• Shakespearesmonkey a billion-year project to randomly generate two lines of a poem (it doesn't work properly on all browsers)
• Flickr photos
• Chris Keegan
• Second Life lawsuit to test how much jurisdiction courts have over virtual world, a 25 Nov 2008 article from The Telegraph