Berman to become news editor for The Economist in New York

Hollie Berman

The Economist has tapped Hollie Berman to be a news editor in New York.

Berman joined The Economist at the start of 2020 as a social-media fellow, and took on the role of social-media editor later in the year.

Her day-to-day work involves collaborating with editorial to adapt The Economist’s journalism for output across the paper’s four main social media platforms: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. She has also written for various digital sections of the publication.

Berman is a graduate of University of Cambridge.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.