Tom Hilditch

Who is Tom Hilditch?

Tom Hilditch is an award-winning journalist and magazine publisher 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 Corinne Day, Iain McKell and Ben Westwood, were hired to provide images. The attempt, which generated considerable media interest at the time, failed.

Hilditch returned to Asia in 1998. His, sometimes controversial, writing during this period deals primarily with the collision of fantasy and reality in modern Asia at the turn of the 21st Century.