Lindsay Clark
Lindsay Clark reports on how technology, data and regulation collide inside large organizations, with a focus on the business and public-sector consequences rather than just the tools themselves.
Enterprise systems, data strategies, and business technology
He covers enterprise applications and data and analytics for The Register, drawing out how software platforms, databases and analytics strategies shape decision-making in businesses and public bodies. His work reflects more than 20 years writing about business technology, beginning in the late 1990s and building deep familiarity with how corporate IT has evolved from on‑premises systems to cloud and data‑driven architectures. Across his enterprise coverage, he pays attention to both vendor claims and user experience, examining how organizations actually deploy and govern complex systems rather than treating products as standalone stories.
Public-sector technology, procurement and governance
Clark regularly reports on major public-sector technology deals and data platforms, including contentious contracts and governance questions around health and other services. He tracks how large technology vendors win and manage long-running data contracts, and how these arrangements affect transparency, accountability and service delivery for citizens. His reporting highlights the intersection between procurement decisions, data infrastructure and the long-term obligations governments take on when they outsource critical systems.
Regulation, tax technology and compliance impacts
He covers the way financial and employment regulation is encoded into technology, such as tax status tools and other compliance systems used by government and business. In articles examining tools like HMRC’s IR35 status service, he looks beyond the software interface to usage trends, policy intent and real-world effects on contractors and organizations, treating finance and tax as part of a wider technology and governance story. This strand of his work often links technical implementation with the practical burden and risk distribution between the state, employers and individual workers.
Long-form analysis and sector-focused reporting
Alongside straight news, Clark writes analysis pieces that explain complex business technology developments in plain terms, situating single announcements within broader trends in enterprise software, data management and public-sector modernization. He draws on prior experience managing a news team at a construction trade publication, where he wrote news and analysis on infrastructure policy and major government programs, to inform his understanding of how large projects and regulatory schemes unfold over time. That background in sector-specific reporting shows in his current work, which often connects technical detail to long-running policy debates, investment cycles and organizational change rather than treating each story as isolated.
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Abba Ihonde
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Adam Clark
Adam Clark links fast-moving moves in global markets with clear, stock-focused takeaways for investors, combining breaking news with thematic analysis across equities and commodities. He is a reporter at Barron's, covering breaking news and markets, a role he took on in 2022 after five years with Dow Jones Newswires. His beat is how individual stocks, sectors and major indices react to shifts in the economy, monetary policy and corporate strategy, and what those moves mean for portfolios. He covers real-time moves in leading stocks and indices, high-profile names such as Alphabet and Newmont, and themes like technology volatility and gold market resets. He works in fast-turn news and longer market features, drawing on experience as reporter, editor and Insight columnist across print and digital platforms linked to Dow Jones brands.
Alasdair Ferguson
Alasdair Ferguson is a multimedia journalist at The National whose finance reporting is defined by a strong focus on culture, heritage and history. He uses archives, museums and cultural institutions to tell contemporary stories, linking public money and policy to how Scotland understands its past. He covers finance, culture, heritage, sport, arts and civic campaigns, often showing how decisions and events affect daily life and national identity. His work includes pieces on historic conflicts, museum photo releases, lost music, football history, large-scale supporter travel, arts festivals, television industry shifts and grassroots independence campaigns. He reports through news, features and multimedia, including podcast and video interviews. Across formats, he relies on concrete historical material, scholarly research and institutional sources to foreground why discoveries and campaigns matter now.
Alec Whitaker
Alec Whitaker is a senior court reporter for The Westmorland Gazette and also writes for The Mail. He stands out for reporting criminal cases in a tight, court-led way that links offences to fines, bans, compensation and other legal outcomes. His core beat is magistrates’ and crown court hearings, with regular coverage of theft, drugs, motoring offences, harassment, stalking and robbery. He reports on how the justice system turns behaviour into sentences and financial penalties, from short theft cases to serious drug charges. His pieces give the charge, the hearing, the pleas and the final order in plain terms. He also covers inquests and other court proceedings, and his work has included reporting for The Mail, The Westmorland Gazette and the North West Evening Mail.