Chris Blackhurst



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Area of interest: Business, City

Journals/Organisation: The Independent | Evening Standard

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Career: A journalist since 1984, his previous posts include: Deputy Editor at the Independent and Independent on Sunday and Daily Express, and Westminster Correspondent of the Independent. He has written for Management Today for the past 15 years and has contributed to numerous other magazines and publications, as well as writing and presenting two Radio 4 Profiles last year. He edited the City Pages of the Evening Standard from 2002 until he was appointed as Editor of The Independent in 2011 Current position/role: The Independent: Editor and Group Editorial Director


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 * Foxtons float? Investors must be cunning when it comes to private equity - Midweek View: Investors are wary of clever financial jiggery-pokery that may see a business look brilliant on paper, but in reality it's a dud - 28th August 2013
 * We know the moral case against war, but what about the economic one? - Since 1945, Britain has spent billions on a range of military expeditions - 17th August 2013
 * Cyclists must give way to stay safe - The bicycle needs its own space – and restrictions - 15th August 2013
 * So what's $6bn between friends? Such a big loss and so little fuss - Midweek View: Has a government or business been ragingover the London Whale's exploits? No. Has a client made a civil claim? No - 14th August 2013
 * We’re smitten, Mark. But how far can we go? - We have to get back in the game of wooing mass industrial investment - 9th August 2013
 * In the Aegean it's business as usual, but where are the jobless Greeks? - Midweek View: Unemployment is twice the eurozone average, yet here I am being waited upon by people who are not Greek - 7th August 2013
 * A line on the bar floor. Women not allowed to cross it. That’s golf for you - Ever since I was seven or eight I’ve played golf. There was a club near where we lived and going along there with school friends seemed a natural thing to do - 19th July 2013
 * Insider dealing is still rife in the City no matter how you count the numbers - Midweek View: In 2008, the then chairman of HBOS, Lord Stevenson, told the bank’s shareholders: “There is a strong case for believing that the UK is exceptionally bad at dealing with white-collar crime - 17th July 2013
 * How can a school be judged fairly when an inspector calls ahead? - 12th July 2013
 * Only white shirt I found in M&S was for an orang-utan - Midweek View - 10th July 2013
 * Why build HS2 and waste billions that could be used elsewhere? - I have the feeling this is a sop. Even carried out, it won't solve underlying weakness - 5th July 2013
 * It’s the loyal readers who make this paper what it is - After two years I'm moving on from my role as editor - 21st June 2013
 * Stphen Hester did sterling work in a tough job at RBS – but politics beat him in the end - His reluctance to stay on much beyond 2015 has been used to oust him. It’s a fig leaf - 14th June 2013
 * If you ask me…we would never swap Deborah for Pippa - Pippa Middleton for Deborah Ross? Seriously? As I said at the outset, oh dear - 8th June 2013
 * Images of Woolwich suspects were used in public interest - Dreadful and distressing as they were, reproducing the photographs undeniably served a public purpose - 25th May 2013
 * Endless wrangling, but we’ve had a Leveson breakthrough - There was no chance of the newspaper groups’ alternative charter gaining wide acceptance if it failed this independence test. This is a major step in the right direction - 11th May 2013
 * Stuart Hall's arrest is a tribute to good police work - and one of our journalists - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, a columnist for this paper, acted on a reader's letter - 4th May 2013
 * Wakefield’s MMR rant was read out of context - Over the 15 years since Wakefield published his infamous Lancet paper which triggered the MMR controversy, this paper has published many stories highlighting the harm he was causing - 20th April 2013
 * It’s not easy speaking in measured tones about Philpott - Welfare was not to blame - but this man's lifestyle jars nonetheless - 6th April 2013
 * Leveson: We the press only have ourselves to blame - I don't wish for any state involvement in the press, but we did not give enough ground to Cameron in the aftermath of the Leveson report - 21st March 2013
 * The Leveson dispute could destroy our free press - One of the principles that made me want to be a journalist in the first place and to help produce a newspaper such as this one, is at stake - 16th March 2013
 * Why we went our own way on Leveson - The Independent's Editor explains why he, along with colleagues at the Financial Times and The Guardian, has called for a new system of press regulation - 13th March 2013
 * Letter from the Editor: Leveson should blow whistle on those who manipulate the news - Sir Alex Ferguson has barred the Independent from his Carrington press conferences after a report by one our writers detailed his fall-out with Rooney - 9th March 2013
 * Letter From the Editor: It's tough, but not as tough as reporting from a war zone - This was one of those weeks when, as Editor, I freely, but nonetheless uncomfortably, admit to being a hypocrite - 19th January 2013
 * The press was on trial and the judge was jury and defence rolled into one. So what did we expect? - The Editor of The Independent says the man in charge of this Inquiry approached it like a lawyer – alas for both him and us, we’re not in the legal profession - 30th November 2012
 * Leveson ignores the press' positive power - As a wholesale demolition of our trade, Lord Leveson's report takes some beating - 8th September 2012
 * Will Amazon be the new beast in our supermarkets jungle once it gets fresh? - One evening this week, I dined with a senior executive from one of our biggest supermarket groups. I'm covering my tracks because we agreed the conversation was off the record - 25th August 2012
 * How the Sultan of Berkeley Square fell off his throne - There was a period when the City was transfixed by Asil Nadir. He was the poster boy of the Thatcher generation, whose rise followed her own and seemingly stood for the same values of hard work and enterprise - 23rd August 2012
 * There's nothing remotely 'leftie' about celebrating immigration and the NHS - Danny Boyle's Opening Ceremony was dismissed as 'leftie, multicultural crap' by right-wing Tory MP Aidan Burley. Chris Blackhurst, who was there, insists nothing could be further from the truth - 30th July
 * Grammar schools educated people to lead the world. They can do so again - Schools like mine instilled self-confidence. They applauded intellectual prowess - 25th May



News & updates:

 * Independent return: Chris Blackhurst's career in profile - Ex-Independent deputy Chris Blackhurst returns a decade later with career that includes the Express and Armanigate scoop - The Guardian, 1st July 2011



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 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Blackhurst