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Peter Harkness From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Peter Harkness, is a media entrepreneur and former journalist, currently holding various directorships in public and private UK companies. He is chairman of Chrysalis VCT plc; the MyTimeMedia publishing group; Volanti Holdings publisher of in-flight publications for more than 20 airlines and a non-executive director of GlobalData plc, a £250m market cap business research spwcialist. He was educated at grammar schools in Stanley, Co Durham and Rugeley, Staffordshire before joining the weekly Rugeley Times newspaper as a 16 year apprentice in the NCTJ training programme. He spent 18 years as a journalist on various Midland newspapers, primarily the Sunday Mercury and when working there won the Reporter of the Year category in the Midlands press awards. He later became a director of the London Newspaper Group, publishing 14 weekly newspaper around the capital. While at LNG, he raised venture capital funds to secure a management buy-out, later selling his company to a large national chain in 1988. Since then he

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