Chris Burn

About

I am the Head of Business and Features at The Yorkshire Post, a role I started in August 2022. I was named as Headline Money's Regional Journalist of the Year for 2023 and 2024 and also won the Local Journalism award at the British Journalism Awards in 2023.I was previously the paper’s political editor, having been assistant features editor and a feature writer for the title before that. Prior to that, I was senior reporter at the Sheffield Star newspaper, where I was twice named as Johnston Press' Journalist of the Year.I was part of the original team that established the Johnston Press Investigations Unit and covered the US election campaign for the i newspaper in 2016, travelling to Washington DC, Virginia and Michigan.I was previously employed as chief reporter for the Shrewsbury office of the Shropshire Star newspaper.