Hodson named Americas editor at The Economist

Hal Hodson

Hal Hodson has been named Americas editor at The Economist, overseeing coverage of Canada and Latin America.

He currently is a special projects writer, based in London. He joined the publication in 2016 as science and technology correspondent, writing about face recognition, tigers and the brain. In 2018 he was named Britain’s best science writer.

In 2019 he moved to Hong Kong to take up a new role as Asia technology correspondent. He returned to London during the pandemic to join the paper’s covid team, writing on the immune system, vaccine manufacturing and data science.

Before joining The Economist, Hodson worked at New Scientist in Boston. He graduated in 2010 from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in astrophysics. Hodson is the author of special reports on the ocean, technology in China and the pandemic.

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.