In 1995, he joined The Guardian’s newsdesk and was part of the team that won the UKPG Team Reporting Award for the Jonathan Aitken investigation. He worked as managing editor and was a director of Guardian News and Media until becoming readers' editor.
Chris is also chairman of the National Council for the Training of Journalists’s accreditation board. He sits on the board of the International News Safety Institute (INSI), the Nomination Committee of the Reuters Founders Share Company, and is a trustee of Concern UK .
His areas of special interest are diversity, training, media law, crime and terrorism.