Kahloon named DC bureau chief for The Economist

Idrees Kahloon

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 2016 Brexit referendum, and published the first accurate measurement of the ethnic composition of Lebanon since 1932. He implemented the dynamic Monte Carlo simulation that powers EAGLE, The Economist’s forecasting system for golf tournaments.

He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in applied mathematics and economics.

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.