re:publica 2014

David Knight is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Silicon Allee, an English-language news website and community which has been covering the tech scene in Berlin since February 2011. Born in London, he gained a Masters in Newspaper Journalism at the Centre for Broadcasting and Journalism in Nottingham before landing his first reporting job at the Barnsley Chronicle, where he was later appointed chief reporter. He moved to Berlin at the beginning of 2007 and has since worked for some of Germany's biggest online news portals including Bild.de and Spiegel.de, and still contributes to a variety of different publications.