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1990: ''Stick it up your Punter: the rise and fall of [[The Sun (newspaper)]]'', Heinemann. co written with [[Peter Chippindale]]<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/aug/13/peter-chippindale |title=Peter Chippindale obituary &#124; Media &#124; theguardian.com |first=David |last=Leigh |work=theguardian.com |year=2014 |quote=ex-employee |accessdate=18 August 2014}}</ref><ref name="RegesterLarkin2005">{{cite book|last1=Regester|first1=Michael|last2=Larkin|first2=Judy|title=Risk issues and crisis management: a casebook of best practice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OYO7L902Wg8C&pg=PA177|accessdate=5 June 2011|date=2005-04-03|publisher=Kogan Page Publishers|isbn=978-0-7494-4382-5|pages=177–}}</ref>
1990: ''Stick it up your Punter: the rise and fall of [[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun (newspaper)]]'', Heinemann. co written with [[Peter Chippindale]]<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/aug/13/peter-chippindale |title=Peter Chippindale obituary &#124; Media &#124; theguardian.com |first=David |last=Leigh |work=theguardian.com |year=2014 |quote=ex-employee |accessdate=18 August 2014}}</ref><ref name="RegesterLarkin2005">{{cite book|last1=Regester|first1=Michael|last2=Larkin|first2=Judy|title=Risk issues and crisis management: a casebook of best practice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OYO7L902Wg8C&pg=PA177|accessdate=5 June 2011|date=2005-04-03|publisher=Kogan Page Publishers|isbn=978-0-7494-4382-5|pages=177–}}</ref>


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.
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.

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Chris Horrie is a journalist, author and lecturer[1] specializing 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.

Authored Books

Horrie is also the author/co-author of many major books,[2] 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 (newspaper), Heinemann. co written with Peter Chippindale[3][4]

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).

Academic Roles

Chris Horrie is the Head of Department for Film, Media and Journalism as Staffordshire University.

He has previously held lecturing roles at the University of Winchester and Salford University.

References

  1. ^ "CHris Horrie". Chris Horrie. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Chris Horrie". Amazon. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  3. ^ Leigh, David (2014). "Peter Chippindale obituary | Media | theguardian.com". theguardian.com. Retrieved 18 August 2014. ex-employee
  4. ^ Regester, Michael; Larkin, Judy (3 April 2005). Risk issues and crisis management: a casebook of best practice. Kogan Page Publishers. pp. 177–. ISBN 978-0-7494-4382-5. Retrieved 5 June 2011.