Biography: Richard Browning, This is Money

By Richard Browning for the Daily Mail

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Richard Browning is development editor of This is Money – the financial section of Mail Online – where he is a writer and columnist as well as being responsible for the audio, video, tools, interactive data and all the other things on the site that aren’t articles but require a journalist’s input.

He is an all-round experienced journalist and has been a driving force behind This is Money since the beginning of the century.

After studying business, finance and journalism he made a 'living' writing comedy sketches for TV and radio, including Hale and Pace before moving to France to work as a ships' agent before journalism brought him home a couple of years later.

He followed the well-trodden path through local newspapers, trade and consumer magazines to national newspapers, the Press Association and internet.

He was employed as a member of the launch team for Mail Online in 1999, a project that was postponed until 2004.

His famous article, 50 ways to save money, was the first of its kind when it was published in 2005 and has been read by more than 5 million people. It has often featured on radio and TV. He’s author of the book, How to Survive the Credit Crunch, published in 2008, performs stand-up comedy, music with Broken Switch one of the best cover bands in Surrey and writes the odd screenplay for fun.

He writes online about money and travel themes in a serious but light-hearted manner.

 In 2014, he beat bowel cancer following surgery and chemotherapy.

  Likes

Sunrise (that's dawn, not a pub), Sunrise (the pub), reggae, dance hall and blues music, the writings of William Wharton and Hanif Kureishi, reading scripts and screenplays, smalltalk with strangers in queues, enthusiastic knowledgeable people, honest tradesmen, polite shop assistants. Life in Britain.

Dislikes: Petty dishonesty, back-room financial advisers in it for their own gains at whatever cost, companies that treat their customers with contempt - which is most of them it seems - and websites designed and run by tech for tech. 

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Holiday spending

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Avios points

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Representative 76% APR (variable)

Dual offer

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Writing 

What is the future of money?
The Florida you don't know
Is Halifax a bank we're supposed to take seriously?
50 ways to save money
50 more ways to save money
The High Street is dead
What's the point of Twitter
Our Disney delight

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Now watch Rich performing with the band Broken Switch More trivia Favourite bands: Toy Dolls, Stranglers, Echo and the Bunnymen, Waylon Jennings, Peter Tosh, John Campbell, Johnny Cash, Johnny Hallyday, Johnny Rotten and generally most obscure early punk, country, reggae and blues.Best gigs: Dolly Parton; Misty in Roots, StranglersWorst gigs: Amy Winehouse, Manic Street PreachersBest job: The one I have now. Worst job: Telephone box cleaner / undoer of rusted-up scaffolding joints Motto: 'Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication' - Leonard da Vinci