Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1968, he did a journalistic apprenticeship on the Times of India in New Delhi before studying philosophy and psychology at Wadham College, Oxford.

On graduating he spent a year in New York City studying jazz theory and technique, returning to the UK to take an MA in Philosophy and Literature at the University of Warwick.

He has also published a short story collection Soft Apocalypse – Twelve Tales from the Turn of the Millennium (2004: Au Diable Vauvert).

In December 2006, Flint took a full-time position as the digital Arts and Features editor at the Telegraph Media Group.

In 2007 he oversaw the set up and launch of Telegraph Earth and was subsequently promoted to be the editorial head of digital development.