Andrew Fenton

Journalist and editor

Australia

Andrew Fenton is a journalist and editor who can quickly craft compelling work for newspapers, magazines and online. With 15 years experience working for both News Corp and Fairfax he knows how to engage readers and attract them to content, whether in print or online. Andrew's work has appeared everywhere from news.com.au to CNN, the Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph, Courier Mail, The Advertiser, Triple J, 3AW, Melbourne Weekly Magazine and The Melbourne Times.

He has been a film writer for The Advertiser, a staff journalist on SA Weekend magazine and an entertainment producer and journalist with News Corp's national entertainment sections, Hit and Switched On. Andrew is also one of a handful of people worldwide to ever get a job after majoring in cinema studies across two degrees (Journalism at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Letters at the University of Melbourne).

Of late, he's begun writing a lot about blockchain and cryptocurrency as an editor and journalist for Cointelegraph and Cointelegraph Magazine, as well as Independent Reserve's Market Update.

Phone: 0433 332 093
Personal email: [email protected]
Work email: [email protected]

Portfolio

Cointelegraph Magazine

Cointelegraph Magazine
06/03/2020
The Lizard People Invented Bitcoin: Crypto And Conspiracy Theories

Bitcoin conspiracy theories range from the amusing to the sinister. But the crypto community isn't alone: Wall Street has a conspiratorial bent too. "When it seems the entire investment community is against you, grand conspiracies take on greater explanatory power."

Cointelegraph Magazine
07/14/2020
Wall St Loses Its Fear of Bitcoin

Insiders say that 2020 has marked a big shift in attitudes towards cryptocurrency from Wall Street veterans who once eyed the asset class with distrust.

Cointelegraph Magazine
09/24/2020
What happened in 1971?

From obesity to income inequality, two Bitcoin advocates ask why the United States appears to have taken a dramatic turn for the worse since the end of the gold standard in 1971. Are their metrics based in objective reality? Or are they merely seeing correlation with no causation?

Cointelegraph Magazine
03/11/2020
Porn Payments Were Supposed to be Crypto's Killer App

For a moment it looked as if porn might save crypto. That moment was in April 2018 when Pornhub announced it was now accepting payments in cryptocurrency. Two years on, and crypto accounts for just 1% of payments. So what happened?

Cointelegraph Magazine
06/30/2020
Brands Taking Blockchain From Niche to Normal

One day blockchain will be a default setting for gaming, entertainment and even sports experiences. Big brands and NFTs will drive this mass adoption, not obscure protocols. The technology is essential: but it will become invisible.

Freelance

Escape
04/28/2019
Rock and roll - the Great Victorian Bike Ride

Wally Sharpe and I are among the 3000 or so riders on the 2018 Great Victorian Bike Ride, which spans 540km from Bright to Benella. It feels more like a travelling festival than a race. But before the end, my bad habit of "making time' by not stopping to rest enough catches up with me ...