Christine Horton, Tech Writer and Editor

In this episode of You, Me and I.T., Karlton Gray sits down with Christine Horton, technology journalist and editor, for a warm, candid, and deeply human conversation about resilience, journalism, confidence, identity, and what it means to build a career in and around the IT channel on your own terms.Christine reflects on her working-class upbringing, losing her father as a teenager, and becoming the first in her family to go to university. She shares how a long-held ambition to become a journalist eventually led her into technology publishing, despite having no intention of working in tech at all. From early roles covering telecoms and mobile, to editing channel publications and later building a successful freelance career, Christine talks openly about the twists, setbacks, and moments of reinvention that shaped her path.The conversation also explores confidence, redundancy, life perspective, friendship, kindness, and the realities of being a woman in a male-dominated industry. Alongside her career story is a wider reflection on legacy, what success really looks like, and why being a good person matters more than titles or possessions.