The Economist senior podcast editor Gittleson departing

Kim Gittleson, the senior editor for podcasts at The Economist, is leaving to join Prologue Projects. Gittleson is the co-editor of “The Intelligence,” The Economist’s daily current affairs podcast. She previously worked as a podcast host at the Wall Street Journal. Previously, Gittleson was with BBC News where she first served as a New York business […]

How The Economist attracts readers with Instagram

Liv Moloney, head of social media for The Economist, writes about how it uses Instagram to attract readers. Moloney writes, “Over the past year, Instagram has become essential to the growth of our business and a true shop window for our best journalism. The platform’s link-in-bio feature, which enables us to link directly to individual pages, […]

Kahloon named DC bureau chief for The Economist

Idrees Kahloon, a Washington correspondent for The Economist, has been named its Washington bureau chief. He has been a Washington correspondent since January 2021. He previously was a policy correspondent covering domestic politics and policy. Prior to that, he worked on The Economist‘s data journalism team. He designed the magazine’s successful predictive model of the […]

Hashim departs The Economist for altruism organization

Shakeel Hashim, a news editor at The Economist, is leaving the publication to head of communications at the Centre for Effective Altruism. Hashim previously was growth manager at tech news site Protocol. Hashim was  also a newsletter producer based in London for Protocol. He was previously an analyst at Finimize covering business and economics, and […]

The Economist seeks a journalist for its digital team in London

The Economist is looking for a journalist to join its digital team in London. Please note: applicants must have the right to work in the UK. This is a hybrid role that encompasses our evolving daily briefing products and our news-publishing operations for our apps and website. The role involves some shift and weekend working. The […]

NY Times hires González Gómez from The Economist

New York Times graphics director Archie Tse and graphics deputy editor Wilson Andrews sent out the following on Monday: We’re excited to announce that Martín González Gómez is joining the Graphics department as a graphics editor. Martín joins us from The Economist, where he was a visual journalist, building graphics and interactives on a variety of news […]

The Economist is offering year-long paid fellowship in the U.S.

We are looking for a talented, enterprising and adaptable fellow for the expanding Digital department of The Economist. This fellow will spend one year working in our New York bureau, and will start as soon as possible. The fellowship will involve: working on the newsdesk and Espressonews app, as part of a global team tracking the workflow […]

The Economist is offering year-long paid fellowship in the U.S.

We are looking for a talented, enterprising and adaptable fellow for the expanding Digital department of The Economist. This fellow will spend one year working in our New York bureau, and will start as soon as possible. The fellowship will involve: working on the newsdesk and Espressonews app, as part of a global team tracking the workflow […]

Bennet becomes first American to write Economist’s Lexington column

James Bennet, senior editor at The Economist, is the new Lexington columnist. The weekly column, dedicated to U.S. politics, takes its name from Lexington, Massachusetts, the site of the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. Prior to joining The Economist in 2021 as an editor, Bennet was editorial page editor of The New York Times […]

The Economist has best financial year since 2016

The Economist had its most successful year financially since 2016 last year with profit up and record revenue, thanks to increased subscriptions, reports Charlotte Tobitt of Press Gazette. Tobitt reports, “The magazine and digital publisher said subscriber numbers were ‘robust,’ totalling 1,185,000 despite a ‘sluggish’ start to the financial year in April 2021 which it put down to a ‘slow […]