About Chris Alden

Chris Alden is a freelance writer specialising in consumer features for national media - and advertorials and web copy for commercial clients.

Areas of journalism

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Business

Eiffel tower, Paris. Photo: Chris Alden

Paris, je t'aime

Guardian Unlimited Travel
Published on Saturday December 1, 2007

Business | Features | Travel

Three itineraries for the business traveller to Paris. By Chris Alden.

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London calling

Guardian Unlimited Travel
Published on Saturday December 1, 2007

Business | Features | Travel

Chris Alden offers three itineraries for the business traveller in London – whether you’ve the weekend, a day or just an hour free.

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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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Paris metro. Photo: Chris Alden

Paris for the business traveller

Guardian Unlimited Travel
Published on Friday January 12, 2007

Business | Podcasts | Travel

It might be home of the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower, but Paris is more than a museum city for tourists. Chris Alden presents a business travel guide.

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Taxi on Blackfriars Bridge, London. Photo: Chris Alden

London for the business traveller

Guardian Unlimited Travel
Published on Thursday January 4, 2007

Business | Podcasts | Travel

Chris Alden presents a guide to making the most of a business trip to the capital.

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Facts at your fingertips

Guardian Work
Published on Saturday November 25, 2006

Business | Careers | Features

It might once have been dry work in dusty rooms, but in the digital age, librarians have a far more dynamic role, says Chris Alden

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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 Sunday October 1, 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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