Bennet, former NY Times editorial page editor, joining The Economist
James Bennet, the former editorial page editor at The New York Times, is joining The Economist. Bennet will be a visiting senior editor for one year. He starts on Feb. 1. Bennet resigned from the Times in June 2020 after it published a much-criticized op-ed by a United States senator calling for a military response […]
Kahloon named Washington correspondent for The Economist
Idrees Kahloon has been named Washington correspondent for The Economist. He previously was a policy correspondent covering domestic politics and policy. Kahloon will start his new position in January. Prior to that, he worked on The Economist‘s data journalism team. He designed the magazine’s successful predictive model of the 2016 Brexit referendum, and published the first […]
Hogan named Americas editor for The Economist
Emma Hogan has been named Americas editor for The Economist. She will start her new position in early 2021. Hogan is deputy briefings editor, working on long-form articles across the publication. Previously, she was South-East Asia correspondent, Deputy Europe Editor and Britain correspondent. As a reporter, she has travelled to nearly two dozen countries writing […]
The Economist seeks a senior social media editor
The Economist was founded as a print newspaper in 1843, but today we have a growing digital operation and 50m followers on our social-media accounts. Ever more people are encountering our journalism for the first time on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn. We are seeking an experienced social-media editor, located in the US, to join our […]
The Economist hires Weinland from the FT to cover China
The Economist has hired Don Weinland to the role of China business and finance editor. His previous role was at the Financial Times’ Beijing bureau, where he had worked since January 2016. He will cover Chinese business and finance from Hong Kong. Weinland had also worked for the South China Morning Post as its China banking […]
How The Economist has increased subscriber retention
Lara O’Reilly of Digiday interviewed The Economist president Bob Cohn about how the magazine has increased its subscription retention. O’Reilly writes, “Subscriptions and circulation made up around two-thirds (£204 million ($265 million) of the £326 million ($423 million) The Economist Group generated in revenue in the year to Mar. 31 2020. In recent months, pre-pandemic, the company […]
The Economist has launched a U.S. ad campaign
The Economist has started a new digital ad campaign to drive U.S. readers to its 2020 election coverage, reports Sara Guaglione of Publishers Daily. Guaglione reports, “The last time The Economist launched a U.S.-targeted digital ad campaign was during the midterm elections in 2018. The Economist hopes to pique the interest of new readers, including younger, female audiences, with […]
Economist has tripled its subscribers from LinkedIn
The Economist is driving subscribers from LinkedIn by posting business and financial news on the social media site and then posting everything, reports Lucinda Southern of Digiday. Southern writes, “After switching gears on its content strategy — starting narrow to publish just business and finance coverage, then going broad by posting all its coverage and then back […]
Applications for two paid fellowships open at The Economist
The Economist is looking for applicants for two paid fellowships in America. Each fellow will spend six months as a journalist working with the New York and Washington bureaus. You will be writing articles about politics and policy in the United States. To apply, applicants should submit an original unpublished article of up to 600 […]
Economist hires FT’s Wong as China correspondent
Sue-Lin Wong, a reporter at the Financial Times, has been hired by the Economist as its China correspondent. She has been working out of the FT bureau in Shenzhen for the past year. Wong had previously been with Reuters since September 2014. She previously freelanced for The New York Times, Reuters, Foreign Policy, and The Atlantic, among other publications in China and […]
