Tom Hilditch

Tom Hilditch (born 1965, UK) is an award-winning journalist and magazine editor 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 Corrinne Day [ [http://www.amazon.com/Diary-Corinne-Day/dp/3934923011 Amazon.com: Diary Corinne Day: Corinne Day: Books ] ] [Fashion photography as photojournalism http://jou.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/5/4/458] , Ian McKell and Ben Westwood, were hired to provide images. The attempt, which generated considerable media interest at the time, failed. [Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratization of Desire By Brian McNair]

After 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.

Hilditch's writing on life in modern Asia have been widely published in magazines including British "Esquire", "The Sunday Times", "GQ", "Maxim", "Marie Claire", "The Independent on Sunday", "Stern", US "Playboy" and "Asiaweek".

From 2004 to 2008, he was Group Editorial Director of Asia City Publishing which produces free listings magazines "HK Magazine", "Where Hong Kong", "Where Macau", as well as several books and guides. In 2004, in collaboration with publisher Stephen Freeman, he conceived and launched The List Magazine, a resource magazine for Hong Kong people.

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