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Chas Newkey-Burden is a British journalist

Journalist

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and author

Author

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. His books include The Reduced History of Britain, Great Email Disasters and Not In My Name: A Compendium Of Modern Hypocrisy (co-written with Julie Burchill

Julie Burchill

Julie Burchill is an English writer and journalist. Beginning as a writer for the New Musical Express at the age of 17, she has written for newspapers such as The Sunday Times and The Guardian. She is a self-declared "militant feminist". She has several times been involved in legal action...

). He has also written unauthorised biographies of Simon Cowell

Simon Cowell

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, Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton

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, Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse

Amy Jade Winehouse was an English singer-songwriter known for her powerful deep contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres including R&B, soul and jazz. Winehouse's 2003 debut album, Frank, was critically successful in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize...

, Alexandra Burke

Alexandra Burke

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and six official publications for Arsenal football club.

He has written for publications including The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

, Four Four Two, Total Football
Total Football
"Total Football" is the label given to an influential tactical theory of association football in which any outfield player can take over the role of any other player in a team. It was pioneered by Dutch football club Ajax from 1969 to 1973, and further used by the Netherlands National Football...

, Time Out, Attitude
Attitude (magazine)
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and The Big Issue
The Big Issue
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; and internet sites including Ynetnews

Ynetnews

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, The First Post

The First Post

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and Guardian Blogs

The Guardian

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. A former Contributing Editor to Loaded
Loaded (magazine)
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magazine and former editor of the football website icons.com

Icons.com

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, where he was also Dennis Bergkamp

Dennis Bergkamp

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's official biographer. Interviewees include David Beckham

David Beckham

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, Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais

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, Frank Lampard

Frank Lampard

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, Rachel Stevens

Rachel Stevens

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and James Bourne

James Bourne

James Elliot Bourne is an English singer-songwriter and co-founder of pop bands Son of Dork and Busted. He is currently pursuing a solo career under the name Future Boy. His albums have sold over six million copies...

.

Newkey-Burden has discussed his books, football news and the Middle East on TV and radio shows including Sky News

Sky News

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, CNN

CNN

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, BBC Breakfast News, The Today Programme on Radio 4

BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...

, Five Live Breakfast, TalkSport

TalkSPORT

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, Capital Gold

Capital Gold

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and BBC Radio London. He was featured on the BBC 2 documentary Cold War Kids, the Sky One

Sky One

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show Celebrities On Heat and The Biography Channel

The Biography Channel

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and Fuse Television's

Fuse TV

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documentaries on Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse

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Newkey-Burden has a blog, entitled OyVaGoy, in which he describes himself as 'philosemitic' and posts opinions firmly in support of the state of Israel, and critical of those he perceives as being against Israel.

In July 2008, the British satirical magazine Private Eye
Private Eye
Private Eye is a fortnightly British satirical and current affairs magazine, edited by Ian Hislop.Since its first publication in 1961, Private Eye has been a prominent critic and lampooner of public figures and entities that it deemed guilty of any of the sins of incompetence, inefficiency,...

reported that Newkey-Burden had posted positive reviews of his own books on the Amazon.co.uk

Amazon.com

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online bookstore.

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