Mike Magee (journalist)
| Mike Magee | |
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| Born | 7 December 1949 |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Nationality | British citizen |
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Michael "Mike" Magee (born 7 December 1949) is a British journalist. He is credited with introducing a tabloid-style approach to the coverage of technology news. In 2009 the Daily Telegraph placed Magee 35 in its list of Top 50 most influential Britons in technology.
Magee co-founded technology news website The Register in 1994. In 2001 he left to found The Inquirer. In 2010 he launched technology website TechEye. (offline since w/c 1st May 2017) and in February 2013 he launched a new title for the channel called 'ChannelEye.
Magee has written since the 1960s on matters related to occult and esoteric religions. In 1971 he started a small occult magazine called Azoth, and in 1973 in conjunction with David Hall, and his girlfriend Janet Bailey, started a more ambitious six monthly magazine called SOTHiS. In 1978, he went to India and met with an English tantrik guru (and former student of Aleister Crowley) called HH Shri Gurudev Mahendranath (1911–1992) who was a guru of the Uttarakaula Tantric Order of northern India. Mahendranath gave him the title of a guru and a charter to form a group of students. Magee took the tantrik name of Lokanath. Later this was to become a nucleus for the "Arcane Magical Order of the Knights of Shambhala" (AMOOKOS). This group was highly influential, particularly in the way it bought Tantrik teachings to the West. In the UK it had about 500 members. In 1990, Mahendranath claimed, despite some evidence to the contrary, that he had not ever given Magee the right to form AMOOKOS and the group fragmented. Since then Magee has concentrated on providing translations for Tantra website Shiva Shakti Mandalam.
Magee worked for VNU Business Publications on PC Dealer before working at their IT news venture VNU Newswire. He left the Newswire and co-founded The Register, the UK's first Internet-based IT tabloid, with John Lettice in 1994. In the newsletter, Magee focused on computer chip reporting, and Lettice covered software.
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