[2] He inherited a publication in deep financial crisis, and responded by hiring numerous new contributors, ranging from Auberon Waugh to Christopher Hitchens to Jennifer Paterson, and changing the publication's tone, with The Guardian later writing that the magazine went "from a bilious and parochial Tory weekly into an entertaining magazine".
[2] In 1986, after a spell as deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph, he became the first Washington correspondent of the newly-launched quality broadsheet, The Independent, and subsequently launched and edited the paper's first Saturday magazine.
In 1993, he spent a year in the United States working as an editor at The New Yorker magazine, where he oversaw the "Talk of the Town" section.
[3] During this time, Chancellor reportedly informed his colleagues he had uncovered a great story — "a gigantic Christmas tree outside Rockefeller Center".
[4] This experience was the basis of a memoir, Some Times in America, which both satirised the ordeal and recorded his deep affection for New York and the United States.