Ben Hammersley (born 3 April 1976 in Leicester, England) is a British journalist, broadcaster, photographer, and technologist, currently based between London, England, and Florence, Italy. He is currently deputy editor of Conde Nast's Wired UK magazine, which is due to relaunch in April 2009[1]. He is also a freelance reporter for the BBC: he previously worked as the first Internet reporter for The Times, where he was shortlisted for one of the British Press Awards, and as a reporter for The Guardian and the UK arm of MSN.