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Scottish broadcast journalist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christopher Frank Baur (born 28 May 1942) is Scottish broadcast journalist.[1] Between 1985 and 1988, he was the editor of The Scotsman newspaper.[2]
Baur was educated at Dalhousie Preparatory School and Strathallan School in Perthshire, Scotland.[2]
Chris Baur joined The Scotsman as a copy boy in 1960 and trained as a journalist, becoming the industrial reporter in 1963 as well as covering Scottish politics from 1972.[2]
In 1973 he was appointed Scottish correspondent of the Financial Times and political correspondent of BBC Scotland.[3]: 53 During this period, he made a programme for BBC Two called "Power of Scotland" which won the Royal Television Society's Journalism Award for the 'best current affairs documentary programme' of 1978.[4]: 8
In 1978 he became an assistant editor at The Scotsman, writing on politics and economic affairs.[2] Between 1983 and 1988 he was its deputy editor, then editor.[5] From 1988 to 1994 he again worked at the Financial Times.[2]
Between 1990 and 1994 he was also the editor of Scottish Business Insider and became managing director of the Edinburgh-based Insider Group - a subsidiary of Trinity Mirror.[6][7][8] Baur was one of the team of four directors who sold Scottish Business Insider magazine and its spin-offs to the Daily Record in 2001.[6]
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