Additionally, he has written regularly for the Newcastle University student newspaper The Courier in their features section as well as contributing reporting to the news desk. He has also featured in many of the same magazines for his work with Rowley PR, securing articles for his clients and also being the focus of them himself as Associate Business Director of Northern Chords, a regional chamber music festival. His work with Northern Chords won him the 2010 ncl+ Award for Arts and Culture. According to the judging panel, "the choice was clear" for Chris to win. Au fait with new media as much as the printed page, Chris has contributed to online magazines and websites such as Simonseeks.com, where he is a valued and top-rated writer. He has also been praised by the BBC website for his sensitive and informative blogging coverage of the July 7, 2005 attacks when he was just 16 years old. Chris is also an award-winning writer for television, having won the Channel 4/4Laughs Window of Opportunity prize in June of 2008, rewarding quality sketch comedy writing. Having just finished his final year of a BA in English Literature at Newcastle University, Chris is juggling work with Aeolian Energy as a researcher and copywriter with his burgeoning journalism portfolio and rising profile in north east business, as well as finding free time to relax with friends.

Flashing up and bomb sirens: The Grainger Market 'It is an ungodly hour of the morning – the kind that should only be known to milkmen, paper boys and long distance lorry drivers – to be sitting on a bus on a freezing cold autumn day. It is an ungodly hour. But this is the daily routine that many go through – milkmen, paper boys and lorry drivers included – and it is the routine that many of the stallholders in the Grainger Market go through six days a week (mercifully, the market is shut on Sundays, except for the brief run-up to Christmas).' (read more)