Chris Blackhurst is a British

British people

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 newspaper editor.

Born in Barrow-in-Furness

Barrow-in-Furness

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, Chris's father, Don, is a former Conservative borough councillor of Bideford Gardens. Chris attended Barrow Grammar School after which he went on to study law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Trinity Hall, Cambridge

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 before joining the staff of a legal magazine. He soon moved to Fleet Street, where he worked for the Insight investigations team of the Sunday Times before becoming City Editor of the Daily Express

Daily Express

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in 1990. He became Deputy Editor of The Independent

The Independent

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in 1996, but followed editor Rosie Boycott

Rosie Boycott

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 back to the Express in 1998, again as Deputy Editor. From 2002 he edited the City Pages of the Evening Standard

Evening Standard

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, until he was appointed as Editor of The Independent in 2011.