Vaitheeswaran named global energy and climate innovation editor at The Economist

Vijay Vaitheeswaran, the U.S. business editor at The Economist, is the new global energy and climate innovation editor. In this new post, he will lead global coverage of the energy and utility industries, the clean energy transition, climate innovations and low carbon technologies. He will be on the lookout for changing business models, novel financing […]

Business magazines named 2021 Ellie finalists

Business magazines have been nominated as finalists in the 2021 National Magazine Awards, commonly known as the Ellies. Harvard Business Review was named a finalist in the special interest category. MIT Technology Review was named a finalist in the literature, science and politics category. Fast Company and Wired were named finalists in the design category. […]

Keynes, U.S. economics editor for The Economist, moving to Europe beat

Soumaya Keynes, the U.S. economics editor for The Economist, is leaving that beat next month and becoming European economics editor. She has been in the United States for the past three years covering trade and globalization. She will start her new job on May 17. Keynes also does the Free Exchange blog. Before joining The Economist, […]

Mkandawire joins The Economist as global property correspondent

Vinjeru Mkandawire is now a global property correspondent at The Economist. She joins from The Telegraph where she held the post of senior business reporter covering mergers and acquisitions. In her new role, Mkandawire will be covering commercial real estate and REITs. Previously, she was a tech, media and telecoms reporter at S&P Global Market […]

Ogunbiyi joins The Economist as a reporter

The Economist has hired Ore Ogunbiyi as a reporter working across foreign, news and business affairs desks. She also co-authored “Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change” with Chelsea Kwakye. She served as an intern at BBC. She was also an events officer and then president at Cambridge University African-Caribbean Society. Additionally, her […]

Learning writing tools and strategies from The Economist

Ahmed Soliman writes about how he learned to write more effectively by reading The Economist. Soliman writes, “Getting to it doesn’t correlate with the writer’s talent or experience: we all do it occasionally. If it doesn’t happen at the beginning of your essay, it’ll happen somewhere else. That’s why it helps to rewrite and proofread—with the […]

The Economist hires Quan as senior social media editor

The Economist has hired Kristene Quan as senior social media editor. She will start next month and be based in New York. Quan has been executive producer of digital content at Postmedia in Toronto since January 2020. Before that, she was with The Globe and Mail as a content strategist and a content editor. She was also […]

Coultate joins The Economist as senior newsletter editor

The Economist has hired Aaron Coultate as a senior newsletter editor. Coultate joins from Resident Advisor where he had worked for more than 8 years, joining as a news editor, then serving as managing editor, and most recently holding the post of editor-in-chief. He is also the founding editor, Juno Plus, at Juno Records. Coultate […]

The Economist launches “Executive Education”

The Economist is launching “The Economist Executive Education,” an online executive education program. The initiative is created by Economist journalists and features global experts. The course is designed for senior leaders and executives across a range of industries and will deliver actionable insights, practical skills and networking opportunities to help participants advance in their careers […]

The Economist is expanding its science and data coverage

The Economist announced Tuesday that it’s expanding its science and data journalism with a new weekly podcast, “The Jab from The Economist,” as well as a new COVID mortality-risk calculator and two weekly newsletters. The 30-minute podcast series that will include analysis of efforts to vaccinate the planet againstCOVID-19. Over the course of the series […]