The Economist hires Hashim as a news editor

Shakeel Hashim

The Economist has hired Shakeel Hashim as a news editor.

He will start next week.

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 a digital journalist at News UK. His writing has appeared in The Economist and its book, Uncommon Knowledge.

He has been at Protocol since February 2020. His work has also appeared in The Observer, The Mail on Sunday, The Sun and Heat Magazine.

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.