abstract:Chris Blackhurst (born 24 December 1959) is a British journalist who is a former editor of The Independent. He became Group Content Director of the four titles overseen by Evgeny Lebedev in June 2013.
Editor ChrisBlackhurst has said there is "movement" across the industry towards an agreement on making the new body fully independent of serving editors.
Editors speaking include James Harding of The Times, Alan Rusbridger of the Guardian, ChrisBlackhurst of the Independent, and the former News of the World editor Colin Myler.
On Wednesday, speaking on BBC Radio 4's Media Show, Independent editor ChrisBlackhurst said the editors had been through all of Lord Leveson's proposals point by point "and pretty much agreed to them all".