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The Economist senior podcast editor Gittleson departing

Kim Gittleson

Kim Gittleson, the senior editor for podcasts at The Economist, is leaving to join Prologue Projects.

Gittleson is the co-editor of “The Intelligence,” The Economist’s daily current affairs podcast. She previously worked as a podcast host at the Wall Street Journal.

Previously, Gittleson was with BBC News where she first served as a New York business correspondent and then as a senior journalist. Gittleson also worked as a business development MBA intern at Gimlet Media. She also held the posts of producer and business reporter at Freakonomics and BBC News, respectively. Additionally, she served as a contributing producer at WNYC Radio and also as a blogger at Chalkbeat.

Gittleson has also interned at Slate magazine and was a Fulbright fellow at the U.S. Department of State.

She holds an MS and MBA from Columbia where she was a Knight-Bagehot and Wiegers fellow. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.

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.

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