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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Aleks Krotoski

They were thinking...

As an addendum to the post earlier in the week finding issue with press invites for games journalists of the fairer sex, I have received an apologetic email from the company responsible for the mailing. Thank you Faye at Ubisoft.

As I said in my response to her email, the post was an observation with the intention of raising a few eyebrows of awareness that not all computer games journalists are male and respond positively to that kind of advertising.

To confound the controversy even further (and to definitely place my name on any blacklists), did I mention that many of the games PRs are women?

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