Tom Hilditch
Tom Hilditch (born 1965 in United Kingdom) is a journalist and magazine publisher based in Hong Kong.
He grew up in Warwickshire, England and was educated at Princethorpe College and Manchester University. He began his career as a trainee reporter at The Rugby Advertiser in 1987, before working for Fleet Street News Agency and The Sun newspaper in 1989.
In 1997, as UK editor-in-chief of Penthouse Magazine he oversaw an attempt to rebrand the magazine as PH.UK and reposition it as a middle-shelf "adult magazine for grown-ups". Fashion photographers from The Face and Vogue Magazine, such as Corinne Day,[1][2] Iain McKell and Ben Westwood, were hired to provide images. The attempt, which generated considerable media interest at the time, failed.[3]
Hilditch returned to Asia in 1998. His, sometimes controversial,.
In Hong Kong at the outbreak of SARS in 2003, he launched the I Love HK campaign through a daily column at the South China Morning Post. The campaign saw lapel pins and posters handed out across the city and was eventually taken on and expanded by the Hong Kong Tourism Board.
From 2004 to 2008, he was Group Editorial Director of Asia City Publishing which produces free listings magazines
In March 2019, he co-launched a campaign to lobby the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong to drop its anti-harassment policy citing free speech.[11]
References
- ^ Amazon.com: Diary Corinne Day: Corinne Day: Books
- ^ Fashion photography as photojournalism http://jou.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/5/4/458
- ^ Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratization of Desire By Brian McNair
- ^ Thais attack foreign press for 'sexual Disneyland' image. By Alex Spillius, The Telegraph, UK, 14 August 1999
- ^ "Tom Hilditch | South China Morning Post". Archived from the original on 2 January 2014.
- ^ "Marketing Interactive is Asia's leading source of advertising, marketing & media news. News coverage includes Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, reaching out to all marketing & advertising related professionals".
- ^ "Fast Media rebrands to Hong Kong Living".
- ^ "Marketing Interactive is Asia's leading source of advertising, marketing & media news. News coverage includes Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, reaching out to all marketing & advertising related professionals".
- ^ "Marketing Interactive is Asia's leading source of advertising, marketing & media news. News coverage includes Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, reaching out to all marketing & advertising related professionals".
- ^ Fast Media Targets The High End Audience. By: Oliver Luk, Hong Kong, Published: 8 September 2011http://www.marketing-interactive.com/news/28363
- ^ "Half the campaigners against anti-harassment policy at Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club revealed to be women".