Mark Newbold
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Mark Newbold (b. March 31, 1971) co-founded Lightsabre.co.uk on June 26, 1999. Running the site for over a decade, Mark has overseen the growth of the site from a 300 hit per week 50 page site in 1999 to a 2000 page, 13,000 hits per week site in 2009. Lightsabre is primarily known for it's interviews, which began in 2000 with an interview with Kevin J Anderson. To date 100 star guests and over 50 fellow webmasters and artists have been interviewed by the site. He contributed to Star Wars Insider 90 with an article entitled The 2006 Artoos Awards Ceremony and in April 2009 wrote a fan report for the Official Star Wars site on Star Wars A Musical Journey. He was also interviewed on the ForceCast alongside Jedi News owner James Burns. He is also webmaster of admiralmotti.co.uk.
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- Mark contributed to the first issue of the 2007 online magazine Outsider by insisting that the name of the magazine remained the Outsider, and not change. The 1990s unofficial UK Star Wars Fan Club became known as the Outsider by its 12th issue and the modern Outsider editor Arthur Papadam did not want to be seen to be steal the name. Mark wrote the article on the characters of the Setnin Sector, based on Lightsabre.co.uk stories, for the first issue.
- Mark has been interviewed by websites around the world, including countries such as Hungary and Portugal.
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- Revenge - The Real Life Story of Star Wars Episode 3 - Revenge of the Sith
- ForceCast Special Report
- Star Wars: A Musical Journey Fan Report on the Official Site
- Crazy About Star Wars page 453 in the Star Wars Super Collector's Wish Book, 5th Edition (by Geoffrey Todd Carlton) - 2009
