The Economist taps Lankes as its Brazil correspondent

Ana Lankes

The Economist has named Ana Lankes to be its Brazil correspondent.

She has been its Latin America correspondent. She covers politics, economics, and society in South America.

Previously she was the paper’s Argentina and Chile correspondent, based in Buenos Aires. She has also worked for the New York Times and has been interviewed by the BBC World Service, Times Radio, and Argentine and Chilean radio.

Lankes graduated with a double first class degree in history from Oxford University and has a joint master’s degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and Sciences Po Paris. She speaks German, Spanish and Portuguese.

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.