The Economist taps Ogunbiyi to cover Africa

Ore Ogunbiyi has been named Africa correspondent for The Economist.

Ogunbiyi currently co-hosts its daily podcast “The Intelligence.” She was previously the health-care and consumer correspondent in the business section.

Prior to The Economist, she wrote speeches for the vice president of Nigeria and co-authored a book called “Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change.”

She holds an MS in journalism from Columbia University, New York and a BA in human, social and political cciences from Jesus College, Cambridge.

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.