Journalist and broadcaster

BBC Financial Unit, reporting primarily for domestic radio and the World Service. Initiated the business news on The Today Programme.

Specialising in wider share ownership, I wrote a successful stock market guide, set up The Shareholder magazine, had a long-running beginner’s guide column in The Sunday Times and presented The Rose Report on The City Programme.

Wrote on money and business in Punch magazine for a decade under pseudonym Oofy Prosser.

Wrote for many other nationals and magazines and authored a weekly business comic strip in the Mail on Sunday, based on my financial comic novel Filthy Lucre.

Edited Barclayshare and Proshare magazines and advised the Consumers Assocation on stock market-related matters.

bizzysimonJournalist and broadcaster