Chris Barr, Senior Editorial Director, Yahoo

Chris joined Yahoo in 2007 and serves as the Senior Editorial Director in Sunnyvale, California.

Chris and his team set the global editorial standards for Yahoo, conduct editorial training, and create original content.

Chris is the Lead Editor of The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World". The guide is available in print and digital versions, such as those for iPad and Kindle.

Chris became the founding editor in chief of CNET in 1995, and his editorial career spans 20 years with his online roots at PC Magazine in the 1980s - a time when the online experience was not comprehensible to most writers.

Chris appeared at the AOP Digital Publishing Summit 2010
- find out more about the event.This year's AOP Summit takes place on 14 October at the Westminster Park Plaza in London. Speakers confirmed so far include:

Fru Hazlitt, MD of Commercial and Online, ITV, Anna Settman, CEO, Aftonbladet, Mumsnet CEO & Founder Justine Roberts, Alisa Bowen, General Manager, The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, Jakob Nielsen, Managing Director Interaction, GroupM and Juan Lopez-Valcarcel, Director, Digital Product & Consumer Technology, Pearson.

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