Chris Horrie

Chris Horrie

Chris Horrie is a journalist and writer specialising in investigative journalism, finance and profiles of major public figures.

As a freelance feature writer his work can be found in the following British newspapers: The Independent, Independent on Sunday, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday, The Observer, New Statesman, The Guardian.

He has worked in many other roles in the media industry.

Horrie is also the author/co-author of many major books, usually concerning major media figures:

2009: True Blue – Strange Tales from a Tory Nation (with David Matthews). Publication in August 2009. Fourth Estate / HarperCollins.

2008: Chapters on Investigative Journalism and the Law; and a practical guide to the Freedom of Information Act for Investigative Journalists in second edition of Investigative Journalism: Context and Practice, Hugo de Burgh ed, London and New York: Routledge.

2008: What is Islam? (3rd edition) with first publication in Russian.

2007: Play It Again – tie-in book for the primetime BBC 1 television series of the same name. Harper Collins, March 2007.

2006: What is Islam? (third edition) commissioned for publication in spring 2007.

2005: ‘Stick it up your Punter’ (3rd edition) – Simon & Schuster (book continuously in print for fifteen years).

2004: What is Islam? (4th printing) – Virgin Books. Editions in German, Dutch, Hebrew, Spanish, Arabic, French, Russian and Persian.

2004: ‘Tabloid Nation’ – from the birth of the Daily Mirror to the death of the tabloid. André Deutsch.

2002: ‘Premiership’. Unauthorised business history of the Premier League. Simon and Schuster.

1999: ‘Stick it up your Punter: the rise and fall of the Sun’. Fully updated new edition. Simon & Schuster. Co-author.

1994: Fuzzy Monsters: fear and loathing at the BBC, Heinemann;

1992: Sick as a Parrot: the inside story of Tottenham Hotspur PLC take-over.

1990: Stick it up your Punter: the rise and fall of the Sun, Heinemann.[1]

1990: What is Islam? (W.H. Allen/ The Observer; exclusive authorship). Now in third printing with German, French, Dutch, Arabic, Spanish, Italian and Hebrew editions.

1988: Disaster - the rise and fall of News on Sunday (Sphere Books. Out of print).

Chris Horrie also works as a lecturer at Winchester University (and recently at the University of Westminster)

References

  1. ^ Regester, Michael; Larkin, Judy (2005-04-03). Risk issues and crisis management: a casebook of best practice. Kogan Page Publishers. pp. 177–. ISBN 9780749443825. http://books.google.com/books?id=OYO7L902Wg8C&pg=PA177. Retrieved 5 June 2011. 

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