Experience

As a freelance journalist, I have interviewed entrepreneurs for the Guardian, for New Business magazine and for in-flight magazines.

I also write regularly for customer magazines aimed at a business audience.

Areas of journalism

Business journalism

Portfolio

Image of the book Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath

A switch anyone can flick

Elevate magazine for Grant Thornton
Published on Tuesday July 6, 2010

Arts and Books | Business

How do you make change happen? Chris Alden talks to Dan Heath, co-author of a new business book on the subject.

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The shocking enthusiast

Elevate magazine for Grant Thornton
Published on Thursday November 12, 2009

Arts and Books | Business

Bestselling business author Tom Peters has had it with talk of ‘business models’. To thrive in difficult times, he says, you really need to get some hobbies. By Chris Alden.

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Ride the apple-wine express

Guardian Unlimited Travel
Published on Friday November 30, 2007

Business | Features | Travel

Chris Alden picks out the highlights of Frankfurt for business travellers.

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All in the mind

Guardian Work
Published on Saturday September 15, 2007

Business | Careers | Features

The art of leadership is, in fact, a science – so say the proponents of ‘neuroleadership’. Chris Alden reports on controversial new thinking.

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The art of management

Guardian Work
Published on Saturday May 19, 2007

Arts and Books | Business | Careers | Education | Features | Media

The MBA is no longer just for bankers – the new media boom is fuelling a demand for leadership skills in the creative sector. Chris Alden reports.

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Strange bedfellows

Guardian Unlimited Money
Published on Friday November 3, 2006

Business | Features | Money | Technology

As rising prices force many people to abandon their dream of home ownership, co-buying is beginning to find favour among the hopefuls. Chris Alden investigates.

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King of cool

easyJet magazine
Published on Wednesday November 1, 2006

Business | Features

Serial entrepreneur Reinier Evers loves searching for cool new ideas. But while most business people keep their ideas to themselves, Evers makes his money by sharing – leading the industry in commercial trendspotting. Chris Alden reports

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Weaknesses? Forget 'em

Guardian Work
Published on Saturday October 21, 2006

Arts and Books | Business | Careers | Features

Play to your strengths, leadership guru Marcus Buckingham tells Chris Alden

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Guide to business etiquette

Guardian Unlimited
Published on Monday October 2, 2006

Business | Podcasts | Travel

Chris Alden presents four introductions to languages for business travellers – interviewing trainers in Hindi, Mandarin, Japanese and Arabic.

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Women of leisure

YeahBaby magazine
Published on Sunday October 1, 2006

Business | Features | Travel

Chris Alden meets the trio of young Dutch women who want to re-invent the way we travel – by pairing tourists with enterprising locals

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Home and away

Guardian Work
Published on Saturday September 30, 2006

Business | Careers | Education | Features

Studying for your MBA abroad is not the only way to gain a global outlook. Chris Alden reports

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Looking back on the crash

Guardian Technology
Published on Thursday March 10, 2005

Business | Features | Technology

On the fifth anniversary of the dotcom collapse, Chris Alden reflects on the hysteria and hubris that fuelled the boom

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