Mike Bird, the Wall Street editor for The Economist, is leaving to become executive editor of Works in Progress.
“WIP is expanding on every front right now,” he wrote on social media. “We’ll soon begin coverage of business and finance, as well as putting out more reported features. To that end, we’ll be hiring more writers and reporters in the year to come. I’m planning to remain based in the US to help build out our presence here.
He previously was Asia business and finance editor for The Economist, before moving to New York in 2025 to cover Wall Street and U.S. finance for the publication. Bird joined The Economist in Singapore in 2021. He writes about capital markets, economic development and major corporations across the region.
Bird previously worked for The Wall Street Journal in London and Hong Kong as a reporter and financial columnist.
He previously worked in the London office of Business Insider, where he worked as a European markets and economics correspondent from the time of its launch in the summer of 2014.
Before then, he worked at City A.M, a free business and finance newspaper in London, after studying history and politics at Exeter University.
